Education
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA (1990)
  • M.Sc. (Tech.) Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (1982)
Experience
  • 1/21 – 7/21, Interim Director, School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
  • 8/06 – till, Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA
  • 8/96 – 8/06, Associate Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 
  • 8/89 - 8/96, Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 
  • 8/85 - 8/89, Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 
  • Summers 86, 87, 88, Summer Development Student, Computer Science Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX 
  • 3/84 - 7/85, Project Leader, Madras Computers Laboratories, Madras, India 
  • 2/83 - 2/84, Software Engineer, Zenith Computer Systems, Ltd., Bombay, India 
  • 1/82 - 5/82, Teaching Assistant, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India 

HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

  • 8/12 – till, Adjunct Professor, Amrita University, Amritapuri, India
  • 7/09 – till, Adjunct Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

SCIENTIFIC CONSULTING (Selected)

  • 2018- till, CTO, co-Founder, Unknown Cyber Inc (previously, Cythereal, Inv), Lafayette, LA
  • 2003, Expert Consultant, Hawkins and Garbin, LLC, Lafayette, LA
  • 2003, Co-Member, Evidence Management Systems, LLC, New Orleans 
Honors & Rewards
  • CajunBot-II semi-finalist in 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
  • CajunBot ranked 15 out of 23 finalists in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
  • Louisiana Governor’s 2004 University Technology Leader of the Year.
  • Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco proclaimed June 2, 2004, as CajunBot Day, in recognition of the achievements of Team CajunBot, led by me.
  • Louisiana House of Representative passed House Resolution 87, Regular Session, 2004 to “express enduring gratitude for the pride and honor” brought by Team CajunBot to the State of Louisiana.
  • CajunBot amongst 13 finalists in the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Research
  • Cyber Security: Malware Analysis, Reverse Engineering, Vulnerability Analysis
Professional Memberships
  • 1984-now, Member, ACM and IEEE
Service

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION 

  • 2017-2023, co-Editor, ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice.
  • 2017, Steering Committee, 7th Software Security, Protection, and Reverse Engineering Workshop (SSPREW), co-located with Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Orlando, Florida. 
  • 2017, co-organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar #17281, “Malware Analysis: From Large-Scale Data Triage to Targeted Attack Recognition”, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July 2017.
  • 2017, Steering Committee, 12th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON), Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
  • 2017, Organizer and Speaker, International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP), Paris, France.
  • 2016, Steering Committee, 6th Software Security, Protection, and Reverse Engineering Workshop (SSPREW), co-located with Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2016, co-Chair Technical Program Committee, 11th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON), Fajardo, Puerto Rico. 
  • 2016, Organizer and Speaker, International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP), Bengaluru, India.
  • 2015, Organizer and Speaker, International Summer School on Information Security and Protection (ISSISP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 2015, co-Chair Technical Program Committee, 10th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON), Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
  • 2015, Steering Committee, Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, New Orleans USA. 
  • 2014, co-Chair Technical Program Committee, 9th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE), Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
  • 2014, Program Committee, Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, San Diego, USA. 
  • 2013, Program Committee, Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, Rome, Italy. 
  • 2013, co-Chair Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE), Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
  • 2012, co-Program Chair, Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, Grenoble, France. 
  • 2010, Program Committee, International Conference on Information Warfare, Wright Patterson Airforce Base, OH.
  • 2009, Program Committee, Malware 2009, Montreal, Canada.
  • 2009, Program Committee, Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA'2009), Albany, NY.
  • 2008, Program Committee, International Conference on Information Warfare, Durban, South Africa.
  • 2006, Guest Co-Editor of IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Unmanned Vehicles.
  • 2006, Workshop Co-chair/organizer: Dagstuhl Workshop on Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software Systems.
  • 2006, Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, Philadelphia, PA.
  • 2005, Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Information Warfare.
  • 2004, Member, Program Committee, Third European Conference on Information Warfare.
  • 2003, Co-Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones
  • 2003, Workshop on Cyber Security, Lafayette.
  • 2003, Working Session on Benchmark for Clone Detection, 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension.
  • 2003, Member, Program Committee, 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension.
  • 1998, Guest Editor, Journal of Systems & Software, Special Issue on Selected Papers from IWPC'97 
  • 1998, Member, Program Committee, Sixth International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Ischia, Italy 
  • 1997, Program Co-Chair, Fifth International Workshop on Program Comprehension, Dearborn, Michigan 
  • 1995, Member, Program Committee, Fourth Workshop on Program Comprehension, Germany, 1996, Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society 
  • 1995, Chair, Advanced Software Reengineering Tools. Sponsored by: Louisiana Board of Regents. 
  • 1995, Member, Program Committee, Fourth Software Engineering Research Forum, Boca Raton, FL. 
  • 1993, Member, Program Committee, Third Software Engineering Research Forum, Orlando, FL. 
  • 1993, Member, Program Committee, Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by: Knowledge Systems Institute, IL. 
  • 1992, Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation, San Francisco, CA. Sponsored by: ACM SIGPlan. 
  • 1992, Co-Chair, Fifth Workshop on Algorithmics Research in the Midsouth Region, Lafayette, LA. Sponsored by USL. 
  • 1991, Member, Program Committee, Third International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Skokie, IL. Sponsored by: Knowledge Systems Institute 
  • 1990-1, Secretary, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - Acadiana Chapter, Lafayette, LA. 

  • 1989, Chair, NACLP'89 Workshop on Logic Programming Environments, Cleveland, OH. Sponsored by: Association of Logic Programming

    STATE, UNIVERSITY, AND DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES 

  • 2024-25, Chair, Faculty Search Committee, CMIX
  • 2023-24, Chair, Faculty Search Committee, CMIX
  • 2022-23. Chair, Faculty Search Committee – Cybersecurity, CMIX
  • 2022-23. Member, Faculty Search Committee – AI, CMIX
  • 2020-21. Chair, Director Search Committee, CMIX
  • 2018-19, Co-Chair, Committee on Information Sharing, Louisiana Governor’s Cyber Security Commission
  • 2018-19, Member, Cyber Education Committee, Louisiana Governor’s Cyber Security Commission
  • 2018, Co-Chair, University Cyber Security Research Committee
  • 2017, Chair, CMIX Public Relations Committee
  • 2016, Member, CMIX Public Relations Committee
  • 2014, University Assessment Council
  • 2014, Graduate Council, Appointee of Dean Graduate School
  • 2009, Lead, Committee to form Institute of Robotics, Sensors, and Control
  • 2009, Chair, Louisiana Computing Carnival
  • 2009, Chair, CACS Student Recruitment Committee
  • 2009, Member, CACS Website Committee
  • 2003-04, Member, Summer Research Award Selection committee
  • 2001-03, Char, Louisiana Distinguished Lecture Series
  • 1999, Co-Chair, CACS2000 Centennial Computing Workshop 
  • 1996-97, Co-Chair, Distinguished Lecture 
  • 1995-97, Advisor, CACS Student-Teachers-Alumni (STA) Association 
  • 1994-98, USL's Coordinator, Louisiana Space Grant Consortium, Louisiana 
  • 1994-95, Member, Q-S-N Committee for CACS' Director search, CACS 
  • 1994-95, Chair, Student Committee, CACS 
  • 1993-94, Chair, Student Recruitment Committee, CACS 
  • 1992-93, Member, Student Recruitment Committee, CACS 
  • 1993, Member, Research Committee, CACS 

  • 1989-, Chair, Software Engineering Comprehensive Exam, CACS 

    COMMUNITY SERVICE

  • 2024, Judge, Innovate South Tech Tank Pitch Competition
  • 2024-, Founder and President, NOLA Holi Festival
  • 2011-18, Organizing Committee, Lafayette Holi Festival
  • 2010, Founded Lafayette Holi Festival (www.lafayetteHOLI.org)
  • 2010-11, President, Acadiana Indian Association
  • 2005 – till, Foster parent for abandoned dogs for Acadiana Humane Society, PAAW, and other organizations.
Invited Presentations/Talks
  • 07/25 “Automatically Detecting Trojan Code in Software Supply Chain”, Malware Technical Exchange Meeting, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, 
  • 06/25, “Defending the Software Supply Chain”, Nexus Louisiana Technology Competition, Baton Rouge, LA.
  • 12/17 “Introduction to Software Protection: Short course,” Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India (invited as part of Government of India GIAN initiative).
  • 12/17 “Machine learning in Malware Analysis,” Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, India.
  • 07/17 “Malware Analysis”, 8th International Summer School on Software Protection, Paris, France.
  • 03/17 “Life After Yara”, Australian Cyber Security Center 2017 Conference, Brisbane, Australia.
  • 07/16 “Malware Analysis”, 7th International Summer School on Software Protection, Bengaluru, Italy.
  • 10/15 “Defusing Targeted Cyberattacks using Malware Intelligence”, 2015 Malware Reverse Engineering Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
  • 10/15 __, NICTA, Sydney, Australia.
  • 10/15 “Attacking and Defending Computer Programs”, NICTA, Sydney, Australia.
  • 08/15 “Harnessing Intelligence from Malware Repositories”, Blackhat Briefings, Las Vegas.
  • 07/15 “Binary Analysis”, 6th International Summer School on Software Protection, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 01/15 “Extracting Intelligence from Malware”, Graduate Seminar, Amrita University, Amritapuri, India.
  • 11/14 “Binary Analysis of Embedded Sysems,” International Workshop: Cyber Security for Smart Infrastructure, organized by Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality, and Technology (INMETRO), US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST-USA), and Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGRID), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • 10/14 “Learning from an Adversary’s Failures,” FBI New Orleans, InfraGard Louisiana, Stephenson Disaster Management Institute (SDMI) Joint Threat Briefing, Baton Rouge LA.
  • 02/13 “Emerging 21st Century Challenges,” College IT Club. South Louisiana Community College, Ardoin Building, Lafayette, LA. 
  • 08/14 “Binary Analysis,” 5th International Summer School on Information Security and Protection, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
  • 07/14 “FuncTracker: Discovering Shared Code to Aid Malware Forensics,” 2014 Malware Technical Exchange Meeting, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM.
  • 01/13 “Fast location of similar code fragments using semantic ‘juice’”. Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, Rome, Italy.
  • 11/12 “Android Malware – Not just an old win in new bottle”, Keynote speaker. Third Workshop on Application and Techniques in Information Security, Melbourne, Australia.
  • 12/08 “Autonomous Vehicles.” Invited talk, Amrita College of Engineering, Amritapuri, Kerala, India.
  • 10/06 “Computer Virus: Theory and Practice,” Keynote speaker, Scientific ICT Research Netherlands (SIREN2006), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • 04/06 “A Method for Detecting Obfuscated Calls in Malicious Binaries,” Invited speaker, The Sixth Astrenet Workshop: Source Code Analysis and Manipulation for Security, London, UK.
  • 01/06 “Analysis of Adversarial Code: Problem, Challenges, Results,” BlackHat Federal Show 2006, Crystal City, Alexandria, Virginia.