Opportunity for PhD study with full scholarship available at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tennessee Tech University (https://www.tntech.edu/). Research directions include (but not limited to): Big Data Security and Privacy; Smart Phone Security; Machine to Machine Communication Security. Requirements include: (1) Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Math or a related discipline; (2) High GPA; (3) Good programming and analysis skills; and (4) Good TOEFL and GRE scores. Interested students please send a brief CV and unofficial transcript to: mmahmoud@tntech.edu
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Name: Islam Elgarhy Title: PhD Student Research: Adversarial Machine learning Period: PhD, June 2021 - Present. First Employment: |
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Name: Atef Bondok Title: PhD Student Research: Towards Secure Federated Learning Against Adversarial Attacks in Smart Grids. Period: June 2021 - July 2024 First Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Eastern Connecticut State University. |
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Name: Ahmed Talaat Ahmed Title: PhD Student Research: Investigating Robust Reinforcement Learning Models for Securing Smart Grids. Period: June 2021 - July 2024 First Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Engineering Mathematics, University of South Carolina Aiken. |
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Name: Hany Habbak Title: PhD Student at Military Technical University, Cairo, Egypt. Research: Enhancement of big data security: issues and challenges Period: Sept. 2019 - November 2023 First Employment: |
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Name: Mahmoud Badr Title: PhD Student Research: Security and privacy preservation for smart grid AMI using machine learning and cryptography Period: Sept. 2019 - July 2022 First Employment: Assistant Professor, State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute, College of Engineering, Network and Computer Security. |
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Name: Sherif Ghoname Abdelfattah Title: PhD Student Research: Privacy-preserving cloud assisted search and diagnosis for smart healthcare. Period: Sept. 2019 - July 2022 First Employment: Assistant Prof. Computer science and information systems department Bradley University. |
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Name: Ahmed Shafee Title: PhD Student Research: Towards Secure Charging Infrastructure for electrical vehicles using robust deep learning models. Period: Jan. 2019 - May 2022 First Employment: First employment: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Adams State University. |
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Name: Mohamed_Ibrahem Title: PhD Student Research: Privacy-preserving and efficient electricity theft detection and data collection for AMI using machine learning Period: June 2019 - July 2021 First Employment: Assistant Professor at Augusta University. |
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Name: Mohamed Ismail Baza Title: PhD Student Research: Blockchain-based Secure and Privacy-Presreving Schemes for Connected Vehicles. Period: June 2018 - July 2020 First Employment: Assistant Professor at Charleston University. |
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Name: Mostafa Fouda Title: Postdoctoral Fellow Research: Security and Privacy Preservation in Smart Grid Period: May 2019 - August 2020 First Employment: Asistant Prof. Idaho State University. |
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Name: Zaher Haddad Title: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow Research: Security and privacy of 5G. Period: Aug. 1, 2019 - Aug. 30, 2019 |
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Name: Waled Alasmary Title: Visiting scholar (Assistant Professor at Umm Al Qura University-KSA) Research: Privacy preserving machine learning. Period: Aug. 1, 2019 - Aug. 30, 2019 |
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Name: Mahmoud Nabil Title: PhD Student Research: Electricity Theft Detection with Privacy Preservation For Smart Grid AMI Networks Using Machine Learning. Period: Jan. 2017 – July 2019 First Employment: An assistant professor at North Carolina AT State University. |
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Name: Ahmad H. Alsharif Title: PhD Student Research: Secure and Privacy-preserving Data Collection and Multicasting Schemes for Smart Grid AMI Networks. Period: Sept. 2016 – May 2019 First Employment: An assistant professor at University of Central Arkansas (UCA); Currently at The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa. |
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Name: Oladyo Olakanmi Title: Visiting scholar (Prof. at University of Ibadan, Nigeria) Research: Security and Privacy Preservation in Automated Transportation Systems. Period: Sept. 2016 – Feb. 2016 |
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Name: Marbin Pazos-Revilla Title: PhD Student Research: Secure and privacy-preserving dynamic charging and coordination for electric vehicles and home batteries. Period: Sept. 2016 – Nov. 2018 First Employment: An assistant professor of instruction and Systems administrator at University of South Florida (USF). |
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Name: Ahmed Sherif Title: Research: Towards Privacy-Preserving Services for Autonomous Vehicles (AVS) Period: Sept. 2015 – July 2017 First Employment: Assistant professor at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM). |
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Name: Khaled Rabieh Title: PhD Student Research: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Communication Schemes for Emerging Smart Cities. Period: June 2014 - July 2016 First Employment: Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University, TX. |
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Name: Zaher Haddad Title: Visiting PhD Student (Cairo University - Egypt) Research: Security and privacy preservation in LTE networks Period: September 2014 - Feb. 2015 First Employment: |
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Name: Amr Elshazly Research: Reinforcement Learning-Based Charging Coordination with Enhanced Efficiency, Fairness, and Security for Smart Grid. Period: December 2023 - December 2024. First Employment: PhD student. |
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Name: Omar Samy Saeed Research: Machine Learning based Solutions for IoT Security Period: September 2020 - September 2024 First Employment: Lecturer, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University. Co-advised with: Dr. Eman Shaaban. |
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Name: Seham Alansari Title: MS student at UQU University - Co-advised with Dr W. Alasmary Research: Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Infection Control System for Covid-19 using Blockchain. Period: Jan. 2020 - May 2021 |
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Name: Wesam Al-Amiri Research: Blockchain-based Smart Parking System with Privacy-Preservation and Reputation Management Period: September 2017 – December 2019 First Employment: PhD student at Missouri University of Science and Technology. |
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Name: Niclas Bewermeier Research: Detecting Sybil attacks using proofs of work and location for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) Period: Sept. 2016 – Dec. 2018 First Employment: An engineer at Volkswagen company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
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Name: Surya Teja Gunukula Research: Priority-based and privacy-preserving electric vehicle dynamic charging system with divisible payment. Period: Sept. 2015 – May 2018 |
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Name: Hawzhin Mohammed Research: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Data Collection in the Smart Grid AMI Networks Period: Jan. 2015 – March 2017 First Employment: PhD student in Tennessee Tech University. |
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Name: Enahoro Oriero Research: Privacy-Preserving Fine-Grained Data Retrieval Schemes for Mobile Social Networks Period: Sept. 2014 – July 2016 First Employment: Engineer at Intel. |
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Name: Prem Kumar Akula Research: Privacy-Preserving and Secure Schemes for Energy Storage Unit Communication in the Future Smart Grid. Period: Sept. 2014 – July 2016 First Employment: Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA) Inc, Austin, Texas. |
Name: Nimo Mohamud Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2024 | |
Name: Meenakshi Iyer Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2024 | |
Name: James Biondi Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2024 | |
Name: Simeon Gordon Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2022 | |
Name: Steve howard Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2022 | |
Name: Madeleine Miller Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2022 | |
Name: Parth Patel Title: Undergrad student at Tennessee Tech University Research: Period: Summer 2021 | |
Name: Aaron Paterson Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2021 | |
Name: Sandra Opakunle Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2021 | |
Name: Joseph Baxter Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2019 | |
Name: Andrew Jacob Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2019 | |
Name: Andrew Salazar Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2019 | |
Name: Kemal Fidan Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2018 | |
Name: Ian Holley Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2018 | |
Name: Swimi Kolancheril Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2018 | |
Name: Danielle Chaung Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2017 | |
Name: William A Johnson Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2016 and Summer 2017 | |
Name: Jacob Moran Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Fall 2016 and Summer 2016 | |
Name: Briana Ausby Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2016 | |
Name: Bethany Hinman Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 2016 | |
Name: Othon Lima Title: Undergrad student at Research: Period: Summer 16 | |
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Name: Rayan Brown Research: Privacy and security in wireless networks Period: Fall 2015 and Fall 2017 |
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Name: Arthur Torres Baiao Title: Visiting Undergraduate Student (California State University (USA) and Federal University of Itajuba (Brazil)) Research: High performance Embedded system using HCS12 microcontroller Period: May 2015 - August 2015 |
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