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Ram Krishnan, Microsoft President’s Endowed Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTSA

1. NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION

Ram Krishnan

Associate Professor

Microsoft President’s Endowed Professorship

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Texas at San Antonio

One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249

Office: BSE 1.518

Ph: (210) 458-6293

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://engineering.utsa.edu/~krishnan/

2. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, George Mason University, 2010

Master of Science in Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2004

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Pondicherry University, 2001

3. PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sep 1, 2016 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

Aug 18, 2010 – Aug 31, 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

4. AWARDS AND HONORS

Recipient of the UTSA President’s Distinguished Award for Research Achievement, 2016

Honored with Microsoft President Endowed Professorship, 2016

Recipient of the 2016 NSF CAREER award

Recipient of the 2015 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, August 2015

Appointed as a Member of UTSA’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers, July 2015

Inducted as a Faculty Member of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), UTSA’s Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers Honors Society, November 2014

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5. RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE ACTIVITIES SUMMARY

5.1 REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Carlos Vazquez, Ram Krishnan and Eugene John, Time Series Forecasting of Cloud Data Center Workloads for Dynamic Resource Provisioning, Journal of Wireless Mobile

Networks, Ubiquitous Computing and Dependable Apps (JoWUA), Vol. 6, No. 3, 2015.

2. Valliyappan Valliyappan, Eugene John, Ram Krishnan and Sruthi Nanduru, Design and Implementation of Low-Power Nanoscale Hardware-Based Cryptosystem for Group-

Centric Secure Information Sharing, Journal of Research Briefs on Information &

Communication Technology Evolution (ReBICTE), Vol. 1, No. 20, pp 1-11, 2015.

3. Sazzad Masud and Ram Krishnan, Kerberos-Based Authentication for OpenStack Cloud IaaS, Journal of IT Convergence Practice (INPRA), Vol. 3, No. 2, pp 1-24, 2015.

4. Jiwan Ninglekhu, Ram Krishnan, Eugene John, and Manoj Panday, Securing Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Using Smartphones, Journal of Internet Services

and Information Security (JISIS), Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp 47-64, 2015.

5. Hui Shen, Ram Krishnan, Rocky Slavin and Jianwei Niu, Sequence Diagrams Aided Privacy Policy Specification, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

(IEEE TDSC), Vol. Preprint (PP), Issue 99, 2014.

6. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Constraints Specification in Attribute Based Access Control, IEEE/ASE Science Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp 131-144, 2013.

7. Mukesh Singhal, Santosh Chandrasekhar, Tingjian Ge, Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan, Gail-Joon Ahn, Elisa Bertino, Collaboration in Multicloud Computing Environments:

Framework and Security Issues, IEEE Computer, Vol. 46, Issue 2, pp 76-84, 2013.

8. Ram Krishnan, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu and William H. Winsborough, Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models for Isolated Groups, ACM Transactions on

Information and System Security (ACM TISSEC), Vol. 14, Issue 3, pp 1-29, 2011.

5.2 REFEREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. To appear: Prosunjit Biswas, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan, An Attribute-Based Protection Model for JSON Documents. In Proceedings of the 10th International

Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2016), Taipei, Taiwan, September 28-

30, 2016.


2. To appear: Prosunjit Biswas, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan, Uni-ARBAC: A Unified Administrative Model for Role-Based Access Control. In Proceedings of 19th

Information Security Conference (ISC 2016), Honolulu, Hawaii, September 7-9, 2016.

3. Prosun Biswas, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan, A Comparison of Logical-formula and Enumerated Authorization Policy ABAC Models, in Proceedings 30th Annual IFIP WG

11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec),

Trento, Italy, July 18-21, 2016.

4. Rocky Slavin, Xiaoyin Wang, Mitra Bokaei Hosseini, William Hester, Ram Krishnan, Jaspreet Bhatia, Travis D. Breaux and Jianwei Niu, PVDetector: A Detector of Privacy-

Policy Violations for Android Apps, in Proceedings of International Conference on

Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2016), Austin, TX, May 14-22,

2016.

5. Rocky Slavin, Xiaoyin Wang, Mitra Bokaei Hosseini, William Hester, Ram Krishnan, Jaspreet Bhatia, Travis Breaux and Jianwei Niu, Toward a Framework for Detecting

Privacy Policy Violation in Android Application Code, in Proceedings of International

Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), May 14-22, 2016, 12 pages, Acceptance

Rate: 19%.

6. Qasim Mahmood Rajpoot, Christian Damsgaard Jensen and Ram Krishnan, Attributes Enhanced Role-Based Access Control Model, in Proceedings of 12th International

Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus), September 1-

2, 2015, Valencia, Spain, pp 3-17.

7. Qasim Mahmood Rajpoot, Christian Damsgaard Jensen and Ram Krishnan, Integrating Attributes into Role-Based Access Control, in Proceedings of 29th Annual IFIP WG 11.3

Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), July 13-

15, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2015, pp. 242-249.

8. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Mitigating Multi-Tenancy Risks in IaaS Cloud Through Constraints-Driven Virtual Resource Scheduling, in Proceedings of 20th

ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT), June

1-3, 2015, Vienna, Austria, pp 63-74, Overall Acceptance Rate: 29%

9. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Virtual Resource Orchestration Constraints in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on

Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY), San Antonio, TX, March

2-4, 2015, pp 183-194, Overall Acceptance Rate: 21%

10. Xin Jin, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Role and Attribute Based Collaborative Administration of Intra-Tenant Cloud IaaS, in Proceedings 10th IEEE International

Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

(IEEE CollaborateCom), Miami, Florida, October 22-25, 2014, pp 261-274, Acceptance

Rate: 20%


11. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, A Formal Model for Isolation Management in Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service, in Proceedings of International

Conference on Network and System Security (IEEE NSS), October 15-17, 2014, Xi'an,

China, pp 41-53, Acceptance Rate: 26%

12. Carlos Vazquez, Ram Krishnan and Eugene John, Cloud Computing Benchmarking: A Survey, in Proceedings of International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and

Applications (GCA), July 21-24, 2014, Las Vegas, NV, pp 15-20.

13. Philip Fong, Pooya Mehregan and Ram Krishnan, Relational Abstraction in Community-Based Secure Collaboration, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on

Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), November 4-8, 2013, Berlin,

Germany, pp 585-598, Overall Acceptance Rate: 21%

14. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, A Framework for Risk-Aware Role Based Access Control, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on

Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), October 14-16, 2013, Washington

DC, pp 462-469, Acceptance Rate: 28.3%

15. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Towards an Attribute Based Constraints Specification Language, in Proceedings of ASE/IEEE International Conference on

Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (ASE/IEEE PASSAT), September 8-14,

2013, Washington DC, pp 108-113, Acceptance Rate 9.6%

16. Ram Krishnan and Eugene John, Design of a Curriculum on Cloud Computing, in Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science

and Computer Engineering (FECS), July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, NV, pp 312-315.

17. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Risk-Aware RBAC Sessions, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security

(ICISS), Guwahati, India, December 15-19, 2012, pp 59-74, Acceptance Rate 25%

18. Xin Jin, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan, RABAC: Role-Centric Attribute-Based Access Control, in Proceedings 6th International Conference, on Mathematical Methods,

Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security (MMM-ACNS), St.

Petersburg, Russia, October 17-20, 2012, pp 84-96.

19. Khalid Bijon, Tahmina Ahmed, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan, A Lattice Interpretation of Group-Centric Collaboration with Expedient Insiders, in Proceedings of

IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications

and Worksharing (IEEE CollaborateCom), October 14–17, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA, pp 200-

209, Acceptance Rate: 25%

20. Alexandra Camacho, Eugene John and Ram Krishnan, Design and Low Power VLSI Implementation of Triple-DES Algorithm, in Proceedings of International Conference on

Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas, NV, July 16-19, 2012, 5 pages.


21. Ram Krishnan, Eugene John and Manoj Panday, Towards Security Policy and Architecture for Managing Implantable Medical Devices, in Proceedings of International

Conference on Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas NV, July 16-19, 2012, 4

pages.

22. Xin Jin, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, A Unified Attribute-Based Access Control Model Covering DAC, MAC and RBAC, in Proceedings 26th Annual IFIP WG 11.3

Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), Paris,

France, July 11-13, 2012, pp 41-55.

23. Khalid Bijon, Ravi Sandhu and Ram Krishnan, A Group-Centric Model for Collaboration with Expedient Insiders in Multilevel Systems, in Proceedings IEEE

International Symposium on Security in Collaboration Technologies and Systems (IEEE

SECOTS), Denver, CO, May 24th, 2012, pp 419-426.

24. Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Authorization Policy Specification and Enforcement for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing, in Proceedings of 7th the International

Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Kolkata, India, December 15-19,

2011, pp 102-115, Acceptance Rate 19%

25. Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan and Greg White, Towards Secure Information Sharing Models for Community Cyber Security, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference

on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (IEEE

CollaborateCom), Oct 09-12, 2010, Chicago, Illinois, pp 1-6.

26. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu, Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, Towards a Framework for Group-Centric Secure Collaboration, in Proceedings of IEEE

International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and

Worksharing (IEEE CollaborateCom), Nov 11-14, 2009, Washington D.C., pp 1-10.

27. Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, A Hybrid Enforcement Model for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Secure

Computing (IEEE SecureCom), August 29-31, 2009, Vancouver, Canada, pp 189-194,

Acceptance Rate: 9%

28. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu, Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, Foundations for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models, in Proceedings of 14

th ACM

Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT), June 3-5,

2009, Stresa, Italy, pp 115-124, Overall Acceptance Rate: 29%

29. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu , Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, A Conceptual Framework for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models, in Proceedings of

ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS),

March 10 – 12, 2009, Sydney, Australia, pp 384-387, Overall Acceptance Rate: 19%


30. Manoj Sastry, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, A New Modeling Paradigm for Dynamic Authorization in Multi-domain Systems, in Proceedings of International

Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network

Security (MMM-ACNS), September 13-15, 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp 153-158.

31. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu and Kumar Ranganathan, PEI Models towards Scalable, Usable and High-Assurance Information Sharing, in Proceedings of ACM Symposium

on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT), June 20-22, 2007, Nice-

Sophia Antipolis, France, pp 145-150, Overall Acceptance Rate: 29%

5.3 REFEREED WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

1. Navid Pustchi, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Authorization Federation in IaaS Multi Cloud, in Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Security in Cloud

Computing (SCC), April 14-17, 2015, Singapore, pp 63-71.

2. Amy Zhang, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Secure Information and Resource Sharing in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on

Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (ACM WISCS), November 3, 2014,

Scottsdale, AZ, pp 81-90.

3. Xin Jin, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Reachability Analysis for Role-based Administration of Attributes, in Proceedings of ACM Digital Identity Management

Workshop (ACM DIM), November 8, 2013, Berlin, Germany, pp 73-84.

4. Yuan Cheng, Dang Nguyen, Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan, Jaehong Park and Ravi Sandhu, Towards Provenance and Risk-Awareness in Social Computing, in Proceedings

of the IEEE International Workshop on Secure and Resilient Architectures and Systems

(IEEE SRAS), September 19–23, 2012, Minneapolis, MN, pp 25-30.

5. Xin Jin, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, A Role-Based Administration Model for Attributes, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Secure and Resilient

Architectures and Systems (IEEE SRAS), September 19–23, 2012, Minneapolis, pp 7-12.

6. Ravi Sandhu, Khalid Zaman Bijon, Xin Jin, and Ram Krishnan, RT-Based Administrative Models for Community Cyber Security Information Sharing, in

Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration (IEEE

TrustCol), Orlando, Florida, October 15, 2011, pp 473-478.

7. Ravi Sandhu, Raj Boppana, Ram Krishnan, Jeff Reich, Todd Wolff and Josh Zachry, Towards a Discipline of Mission-Aware Cloud Computing, in Proceedings of ACM

Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW) - held in conjunction with the 17th ACM

Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), Oct 08, 2010,

Chicago, Illinois, pp 13-18.


8. Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Enforcement Architecture and Implementation Model for Group-Centric Information Sharing, International Workshop on Security and

Communication Networks (IWSCN), May 20-22, 2009, Trondheim, Norway, pp 1-8.

9. Ram Krishnan, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu and William Winsborough, Stale-Safe Security Properties for Group-Based Secure Information Sharing, in Proceedings of

ACM workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering (ACM FMSE), Oct 27- Oct

31, 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, pp 53-62.

5.4 REFEREED MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS

1. Amy Zhang, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Secure Information and Resource Sharing in Cloud, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Data and Application Security

and Privacy (ACM CODASPY) Poster, San Antonio, TX, March 2-4, 2015, pp 131-133.

2. N. Ansari, G. Cheng, and Ram N. Krishnan, Efficient and Reliable Link State Information

Dissemination, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 317-319, May 2004.

5.5 INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Ram Krishnan, “Cloud Computing Access Control: Framework, Issues and Research Directions”, To appear in Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics in Cloud, Co-

Published by Wiley (USA) and Higher Education Press (China), 2015, 25 pages.

5.6 INVITED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

1. Ram Krishnan and Jiwan Ninglekhu, Smartphone-based Secure Authenticated Session Sharing in Internet of Personal Things, in Proceedings of Mobile Devices and

Multimedia: Enabling Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications, San Francisco, CA,

February 10-11, 2015, pp 1-10.

2. Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan, Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, Group-Centric Models for Secure and Agile Information Sharing, in Proceedings of International

Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network

Security (MMM-ACNS), September 8-11, 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia, pp 55-69.

6. PRESENTATIONS

6.1 REFEREED CONTRIBUTIONS (CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS)

1. Khalid Bijon, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Mitigating Multi-Tenancy Risks in IaaS Cloud Through Constraints-Driven Virtual Resource Scheduling, in Proceedings of 20th

ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT), June

1-3, 2015, Vienna, Austria, pp 63-74.


2. Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Authorization Policy Specification and Enforcement for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing, in Proceedings of 7th the International

Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), Kolkata, India, December 15-19,

2011, pp 102-115.

3. Ravi Sandhu, Ram Krishnan and Greg White, Towards Secure Information Sharing Models for Community Cyber Security, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference

on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (IEEE

CollaborateCom), Oct 09-12, 2010, Chicago, Illinois, pp 1-6.

4. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu, Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, Towards a Framework for Group-Centric Secure Collaboration, in Proceedings of IEEE

International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and

Worksharing (IEEE CollaborateCom), Nov 11-14, 2009, Washington D.C., pp 1-10.

5. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu, Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, Foundations for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models, in Proceedings of 14

th ACM

Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT), June 3-5,

2009, Stresa, Italy, pp 115-124.

6. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu , Jianwei Niu and William Winsborough, A Conceptual Framework for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing Models, in Proceedings of

ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS),

March 10 – 12, 2009, Sydney, Australia, pp 384-387.

7. Ram Krishnan, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu and William Winsborough, Stale-Safe Security Properties for Group-Based Secure Information Sharing, in Proceedings of

ACM workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering (ACM FMSE), Oct 27- Oct

31, 2008, Alexandria, Virginia, USA, pp 53-62.

8. Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu and Kumar Ranganathan, PEI Models towards Scalable, Usable and High-Assurance Information Sharing, in Proceedings of ACM Symposium

on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT), June 20-22, 2007, Nice-

Sophia Antipolis, France, pp 145-150.

6.2 INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS (CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS)

1. Ram Krishnan and Jiwan Ninglekhu, Smartphone-based Secure Authenticated Session Sharing in Internet of Personal Things, in Proceedings of Mobile Devices and

Multimedia: Enabling Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications, San Francisco, CA,

February 10-11, 2015, pp 1-10.

2. Xin Jin, Ram Krishnan and Ravi Sandhu, Role and Attribute Based Collaborative Administration of Intra-Tenant Cloud IaaS, in Proceedings 10th IEEE International

Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

(IEEE CollaborateCom), Miami, Florida, October 22-25, 2014, pp 261-274.


6.3 INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS (PANELS/TALKS)

1. Briefing: LMI Government-University Forum, May 27, 2015, McLean, VA.

2. Briefing: LMI Government-University Forum, May 21, 2014, McLean, VA.

3. Panel Member: “Grand challenges in cyber security” at Cybersecurity Research Institute (CSRI), Lockheed Martin, April 19-20, 2012, Arlington, VA.

6.4 INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS (PUBLIC MEDIA)

1. Testimony to the Texas Senate Committee on Business and Commerce on cybersecurity concerns in storing Texan data in cloud, Texas State Capitol, March 30, 2016.

2. Panel: “What keeps you up at night?”, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Conference, September 30, 2015, Austin, TX.

3. Panel: Views & Brews: Who's Tracking Your Digital Footprint?, Texas Public Radio, July 24, 2015, San Antonio, TX.

4. Talk at Thomas Jefferson High School: "Cloud Computing", March 21, 2013, San Antonio, TX.

5. San Antonio Leadership Panel: "Preparing university and trade school graduates for 21st Century jobs", March 6, 2013, San Antonio, TX.

6. Article: UTSA seeks to consolidate school’s diverse cyber-security programs, San Antonio Business Journal, August 3, 2012.

7. Article: Does your password pass the test?, Houston Chronicle, July 4, 2012.

7. GRANTING ACTIVITIES

1. Identity and Access Control in the Physical and Virtual Internet of Things Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu, Co-Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan

Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation and The University of Maryland

Performing Period: 2016

Grant Type: Research

2. CAREER: Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing - Models, Properties, and Implementation

Principle Investigator: Ram Krishnan

Amount: $544,376

Sponsor: U.S. National Science Foundation

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Performing Period: 2016-2021


3. Design and Implementation of Cybersecurity Risk Metrics for Cloud Based IT Infrastructure

Principle Investigator: Ram Krishnan, Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu

Amount: $50,000

Sponsor: LMI Research Institute



4. Towards Multi-Tenancy Security Capabilities for Applications in Cloud Platforms Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan, Key Personnel: Ravi Sandhu

Amount: $593,514

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Army, Army Research Office



5. Trustworthy Computing: Attribute Based Access Control for Cloud IaaS Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan, Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu

Amount: $500,000

Sponsor: U.S. National Science Foundation, SaTC Program, (Acceptance Rate: ~15%)



6. Enhancing Situational Awareness for Emergency Response Using Social Media Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan, Co-Principal Investigator: Jae Park

Amount: $50,000 (excluding F&A cost)




7. Secure Information Sharing Models for Cyber Response Teams Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan, Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu





8. Design of a Curriculum on Building Security Services in the Cloud Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan, Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu


Sponsor: Intel Corporation


Grant Type: Instructional/Educational


9. ESCAPE: Experimental Study on Computer Architecture and Performance Evaluation

Principal Investigator: Eugene John, Co-Principal Investigator: Wei-Ming Lin

Key Personnel: Ram Krishnan (for 2014)

Amount: $356,732

Sponsor: National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates


Grant Type: Research + Instructional/Educational

8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1. Methods for Secure Control of and Secure Data Extraction from Implantable Medical

Devices Using Smartphones or Other Mobile Devices, Ram Krishnan, Eugene John,

Manoj Panday and Jiwan Ninglekhu, US Non-Provisional Patent Application (US

14/493,305), Filing Date: September 22, 2014.

2. Risk-Aware Sessions in Role-Based Access Control Systems and Methods of Use, Ram Krishnan, Ravi Sandhu and Khalid Bijon, US Non-Provisional Patent Application

(Provisional Application Number: 61886639), Filing Date: October 03, 2013, Board of

Regents of the University of Texas System.

3. Authorization Policy for Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing, Ram Krishnan and

Ravi Sandhu, US Non-Provisional application (PCT/US2012/052501), Filing Date:

August 27, 2012, Board of Regents of the University of Texas System.

4. Methods and apparatuses for privacy in location-aware systems, Manoj Sastry, Michael

Covington, Ram Krishnan, US Non-Provisional Application (US 11/772,196), Filing

Date: June 30, 2007, Intel Corporation.

9. TEACHING ACTIVITIES

9.1 FORMAL COURSES TAUGHT AT UTSA

Undergraduate Courses Taught at UTSA

EE 3223 C++ and Data Structures (Revamped) Fall ‘10-‘15, Spring ‘15

EE 4953 Introduction to Cloud Computing (NEW) Spring ‘13

EE 4953 Introduction to Mobile App Spring ‘14, ‘15

Development in Android (NEW)


Graduate Courses Taught at UTSA

EE 5453 Computer and Network Security (NEW) Spring ‘11, ‘12, ‘14

EE 5453 Introduction to Mobile App Spring ‘14, ‘15

Development in Android

EE 6991 Graduate Seminar Spring ‘13, Fall ‘13

9.2 STUDENTS MENTORED

PhD Thesis Advising

Completed:

1. Xin Jin, “Attribute-Based Access Control Models and Implementation in Cloud Infrastructure as a Service”, Department of Computer Science, UTSA, PhD Thesis. (Co-

chaired with Dr. Ravi Sandhu), Graduated: May 2014

Currently at: Amazon Inc., Seattle – Amazon Web Services Cloud Security Team

2. Khalid Bijon, “Constraints for Attribute Based Access Control with Application in Cloud IaaS”, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, PhD

Thesis, (Co-chaired with Dr. Ravi Sandhu), Graduated: May 2015

Currently at: MOSAIXSOFT, Los Altos, CA – Cloud Security Team

Current:

1. Md. Farhan Haque, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, started in Fall 2016

2. Sherifdeen Lawal, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, started in Fall 2016

3. Samir Talegaon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, started in Summer 2016

4. Jiwan Ninglekhu, “Attributed Based Access Control for Cloud Storage”, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UTSA, PhD Thesis. Expected proposal date:

November 2016

5. Prosunjit Biswas, “Attribute Engineering for Attribute Based Access Control”, Department of Computer Science, UTSA, PhD Thesis, (Co-adviser Dr. Ravi Sandhu)

Proposal completed: January 2015

Visiting:


1. Qasim Mahmood Rajpoot, “Attributes Enhanced Role-Based Access Control for Video Surveillance”, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Fall 2014 – Spring 2015. Formal

adviser at DTU: Dr. Christian Damsgaard Jensen

MS Thesis Advising

Completed:

1. Sanket Lawangare (MS Thesis), “Integrating Kerberos in Openstack Cloud Infrastructure as a Service”, July 2015.

2. Md. Farhan Haque (MS Thesis), “A Framework to Detect “Device Related” Data Collection Violations of Android Apps”, July 2015.

3. Sazzad Masud (MS Thesis), “Kerberos-Based Authentication Framework for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service”, Dec 2014.

4. Jiwan Ninglekhu (MS Thesis), "Securing Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Using Smartphones", August 2013, Currently my PhD student.

5. Nagasaikrishna Narra (MS Thesis), "Fail-Safe Decentralized Architecture for Advanced Metering Infrastructure", December 2012, Currently at Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA

6. Santhosh Chandana Golagani (MS Thesis), "Developing Learning Technologies On Mobile Platforms And Studying Mobile-Server Interactivity", 2012, (Co-Chaired with Dr.

David Akopian)

M.S. Project Advising

1. Adeyin-Ikpah, “Monitoring Framework for OpenStack”, Spring 2016.

2. Janhavi Shiras, “State of the Art Review and Demonstration of the IoT and

MQTT Protocol”, Co-Advised with Dr. David Akopian, April 24, 2015

3. Roopchand Yanamadala (MS Project), "Design of a Scheduling System for

Remote Laboratories", 2013.

4. Kashyap Patel (MS Project), "Secure Group Communication in Advanced

Metering Infrastructure using Logical Key Hierarchy", 2012.

Extensive Mentoring in Independent Studies and Undergraduate/Senior Design

9.3. GRADUATE THESIS/DISSERTATION COMMITTEES SERVED

1. Dissertation Committee Member, “Security Analysis Of Multimedia Communication Protocols in Traditional And Emerging Models”, (Jan 2011 – July 2015 – Completed)

Advised: Ali Tekeoglu (CS)

2. Master’s Thesis Committee Member, “Time Series Forecasting of Cloud Data Center Workloads for Dynamic Resource Provisioning”, (Jan 2014 – June 2015 – Completed)


Advised: Carlos Vazquez (ECE)

3. Dissertation Committee Member (April 2015 – Present) Advised: Mehrab Ghanat Bari (ECE)

4. Dissertation Committee Member. “Authorization Federation in OpenStack Multi Cloud Systems” (January 2014 - Present – Proposal).

Advised: Navid Pustchi (CS)

5. Dissertation Committee Member, "Group-Centric Resource Sharing in Cloud IaaS" (January 2013 - Present – Proposal).

Advised: Amy Zhang (CS)

6. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Improving Chip Multiprocessor Performance by Exploiting Dynamic and Speculative Updates." (January 2014 - November 2014 –

Completed).

Advised: Nilufar Ferdous (ECE)

7. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Design and Implementation of Low-Power Nano-Scale Hardware Based Crypto-System in Group-Centric Fashion." (August 2013 - July

2014 – Completed).

Advised: Valliyappan V (ECE)

8. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Configuring Windows Server 2012 and Online Calendar System for Remote Laboratory Access Control with Video Streaming." (August

2013 - May 2014 – Completed).

Advised: Debabrata Mazumder (ECE)

9. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Predictive Object Tracking." (January 2013 - December 2013 – Completed).

Advised: Saeed Ezzati (ECE)

10. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Hashing for Fast IP Address Lookup Utilizing Inter-Key Correlation." (November 2013 – Completed).

Advised: Ramin Sahba (ECE)

11. Master's Thesis Committee Member. (July 24, 2013 – Completed). Advised: Sai Praveen Kumar Madineni (ECE)

12. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Lip Tracking and Quick Mouth Shape Extraction." (April 18, 2013 – Completed).

Advised: Jesus Luna (ECE)

13. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "32-bit MIPS Pipelined Microprocessor Implementation using Design Vision." (February 2, 2013 – Completed).

Advised: Sanjay Mulagada (ECE)


14. PhD Dissertation Committee Member, “A Framework for Composing Security-Typed Languages”, (August 2008 - December 2013 – Completed)

Advised: Andreas Gampe (Computer Science)

15. Master’s Thesis Committee Member, “Tensor Transform-Base Method of Image Encryption”, (August 2013 – May 2015 – Completed)

Advised: Bryan Wiatrek (ECE)

16. Master’s Thesis Committee Member, “A High Level Synthesis of GPS Acquisition”, (September 2013 – August 2014 – Completed)

Advised: Madhuri Samudrala (ECE)

17. Master’s Thesis Committee Member, “Low power routing algorithms for mobile ad-hoc networks”, (August 2013 – December 2014 – Completed)

Advised: Todd Newton (ECE)

18. PhD Dissertation Committee Member, "Superpredictive Models for Discrete Signal Analysis" Completed, (November 2010 - May 2014 – Completed).

Advised: Richard Metzler (ECE)

19. PhD Dissertation Committee Member, "Expert System for the Prognosis and Analysis of Prostrate Cancer Using Biopsy Images." Completed, (November 2010 - December 2011

– Completed).

Advised: Ali Almuntashri (ECE)

20. PhD Dissertation Committee Member, "Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Through Data Publishing and Knowledge Model Sharing." Completed, (January 2008 - December 2012

– Completed).

Advised: Hongwei Tian (Computer Science)

21. PhD Dissertation Committee Member, "A Formal Framework For Analyzing Sequence Diagram." Completed, (August 2010 - December 2012 – Completed).

Advised: Hui Shen (Computer Science)

22. PhD Dissertation Committee Member, "Privacy Preservation in Social Graphs." Completed, (August 2010 - May 2012 – Completed).

Advised: Lijie Zhang (Computer Science)

23. PhD, Dissertation Committee Member, "Crosscutting Software Artifacts for Access Control." In-Process, (January 2010 – Aril 2013 – Completed).

Advised: Mark Robinson (Computer Science)

24. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Remote Laboratory for Dielectric Measurement System." Completed, (August 2011 - May 2012 – Completed).

Advised: Krati Mehta (ECE)


25. Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Web-based Real-time Remote Laboratory." Completed, (August 2010 - December 2010 – Completed).

Advised: Muthaheera Yasmeena Belgur Shamiullah (ECE)

9.4. EDUCATION-RELATED SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Published in an education-related conference on the topic of cloud computing curriculum.

1. Ram Krishnan and Eugene John, Design of a Curriculum on Cloud Computing, in Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science

and Computer Engineering (FECS'13), July 22-25, 2013, Las Vegas, NV, 4 pages.

9.5. EDUCATION-RELATED GRANTS

PI of “Design of a Curriculum on Building Security Services in Cloud Computing”, Intel

Corporation, $35,000, 2013-2014.

Recipient of support from the ECE department for developing a hybrid curriculum for EE

3223, “A Proposal to Develop Video Modules for Strengthening ECE Software

Programming Curriculum”, $2500, Summer 2014.

Co-recipient of support from the ECE department for new curriculum development, “EE

4953: Introduction to Cloud Computing”, $5000, 2012.

9.6. EDUCATION-RELATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2015 American Society for Engineering

Education Gulf-Southwest Education Conference, March 25-27, 2015, San Antonio, TX

Member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

9.7. EDUCATION-RELATED TRAINING/WORKSHOPS

Attended workshop on “How Effective Communication Leads to Effective Teaching”, UTSA, April 4, 2016

Attended Provost's Academy: “Creating Impactful Educational Experiences”, UTSA,

May 16, 2016

Attended UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers Teaching Forum, Aug 18, 2015

Attended UTSA College of Engineering Teaching Workshop, December 12, 2012

UTSA Provost’s Academy on Teaching, “Creating Critical Thinkers”, May 16-18, 2012

“Using Lync 2013 for Recording Your Lectures”, UTSA TLC Feb 10, 2015

10. SERVICE ACTIVITIES


10.1 COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS (UTSA)

Department Service

2013 - Present Committee Member, TA Selection Committee

Chair: Dr. Artyom Grigoryan

Responsibilities: Help define policies, build tools for TA applications,

participate in TA and grader selection process in Fall, Spring and

Summer Semesters

2013 - Present Committee Member, Graduate Programs Committee

Chair: Dr. Yufei Huang

Responsibilities: Help define policies, review PhD applications, and

participate in selection process.

2012 - Present Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee (Involved in 7 faculty

searches since 2012)

1. Assistant Professor Position in VLSI design and FPGA systems, 2015-2016 – Dr. Wei-Ming Lin (Chair)

2. Endowed Assistant Professor in Cloud Computing (ECE Committee), 2014-2015 – Dr. Eugene John (Chair)

3. Tenure Track Assistant Professor Positions in Computer Engineering, 2014-2015 – Dr. Eugene John (Chair)

4. Tenure Track Assistant Professor Positions in Computer Engineering, 2014-2015 – Dr. Eugene John (Chair)

5. Assistant Professor of Research in Cloud Computing, 2014-2015 – Dr. Eugene John (Chair)

6. Assistant Professor of Research in Cloud Computing, 2013-2015 – Dr. Mo Jamshidi (Chair)

7. Tenure Track Assistant Professor Positions in Communication Networks, 2012-2013 – Dr. David Akopian (Chair)

Responsibilities: Review applications, pre-screen interview, on-site

interview, participate in arriving at final recommendations

2012 - Present Committee Member, ABET Continuous Improvement

Chair: Dr. Chunjiang Qian

Responsibilities: Review concentration area committee ABET folders,

make recommendations for the department, help set policies

2012 - 2013 Committee Member, Info and Web

Responsibilities: Help maintain ECE website

2010 - Present Committee Member, Computer Engineering Area Committee

Chair: Dr. Eugene John

Responsibilities: Course planning, curriculum improvement, new

curriculum development (e.g. software engineering), etc.


College Service

2015 - Present Committee Chair, College Faculty Development Leave Committee

(CFDLC)

Chair: Dr. Ram Krishnan

Responsibilities: Review applications, coordinate committee meetings,

set policies, and make recommendations to the Dean

2013 - 2015 Committee Member, ASEE/SW Conference Organization

Chair: Randall Manteufel

Responsibilities: Help with planning, website operations, registration,

paper reviewing, etc.

University Service

2015 - Present Committee Member, Cyber Research Task Force

Chair: Mr. Adam Fraser

Responsibilities: Identify funding and partnership opportunities in

Cyber, Cloud, Computing and Analytics (C3A) area, form teams with

appropriate expertise to pursue such opportunities.

2014 - Present

2014 - Present

Committee Member, Graduate Program and Courses Committee

Chair: Dr. Kevin Grant

Responsibilities: Review applications for new graduate programs and

courses

Committee Member, University Library Committee

Chair: Dr. Corey Sparks

Responsibilities: Provide directions and advise to the Dean of

Libraries related to policies and procedures for library operations

2013 - 2014

2013 - 2014

Committee Member, Faculty Search Committee for Endowed Assistant

Professor in Cloud Computing

Chair: Mr. Ken Pierce

Responsibilities: Review applications, pre-screen interview, on-site

interview, participate in arriving at final recommendations

Committee Member, Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Committee

Chair: Joe DeCristoforo

Responsibilities: Review scholarship applications and help make

recommendations

2010 - 2013 Committee Member, Conflict of Interest

Responsibilities: Served as an alternate in determining conflict of

interest cases filed at the university level


10.2 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Scholarly Workshop Organization and Chairing

Technical Program Committee Chair of Workshop on Future of Information Security

(FIS), Co-located with International Conference on Communication Systems and

Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, January 10, 2015. (Indexed by IEEE)

Organizer and Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee of the International Workshop

on Secure and Resilient Architectures and Systems (SRAS), Co-located with 21st

International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT

2012), Minneapolis, MN, September 19, 2012. (Indexed by ACM Digital Library)

Conference Organization Committees Served

Publicity and Web Chair, ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security (ACM

CODASPY), San Antonio, TX, 2011 to 2016

Registration Chair, International Conference on Performance Engineering, Austin, TX,

Jan 31 - Feb 4, 2015

Organizing Committee Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 25-27, 2015

Session Chair in Conferences

IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014), Miami, Florida, October 22-25, 2014

ACM Conference on Data and Application Security, San Antonio, TX , Feb 18-20, 2014



IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing, Chicago, Oct 9-12, 2010

Journal Editing

Guest Co-Editor of Special Issue on Advanced Technologies for Homeland and Cyber

Defense, Autosoft Journal, 2014-2015, to appear in September 2015.


Proposal Reviewing

University of Luxembourg, Review Panel, Internal Research Projects, 2015

University of Texas at San Antonio, Review Panel, Grant for Research Advancement and

Transformation (GREAT), 2015

National Science Foundation, Review Panel, Experimental Program to Stimulate

Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR), 2012

Conference Technical Program Committee Served and Journal Reviewing Activities

Year Conference Technical Program Committee Journal Reviewing

2010

1. International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT)

1. Very-Large Database Journal (VLDB)

2012

1. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC)

2. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY)

3. International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS)

4. IEEE Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust

1. ACM Transactions on Information and System

Security (ACM TISSEC)

(2 articles)

2. Autosoft Journal 3. IEEE Systems Journal 4. Wiley Software: Practice

and Experience

2013

1. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2. ACM Conference on Data and Application

Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY)




2. IEEE Systems Journal (4 articles)

3. Wiley Software

2014

1. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC)


3. Workshop on Future of Information Security (FIS)


5. International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS)

6. IEEE Information Reuse and Integration



2. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure

Computing (IEEE

TDSC) (3 articles)

3. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing

4. IEEE Systems Journal (2 articles)


2015 1. IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD)


3. IEEE Cluster Computing (IEEE Cluster) 4. IEEE Information Reuse and Integration

(IEEE IRI)


6. International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS)

7. Workshop on Containers (WoC)



2. Elsevier Journal of Information Security and

Applications (JISA)

3. Elsevier Journal of Computer and Security

(COSE) (2 articles)