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• Omar Darwish and S.A. Ashur, “National Pathway to Success (NPS)”, funded by the National Security Agency (NSA), 2/1/2024-6/30/2024. The project is a collaborative cybersecurity consortium focused on preparing, training, and retaining skilled professionals to meet the demands of emerging cybersecurity domains. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, leads this grant, with a total funding of $704,000, of which EMU's share is $15,000.

• [05/2023] I received an internal grant titled “Security Software Tool to Uncover Language of Encrypted Leaked Data by Covert Timing Attacks Using Machine Learning,", Project PI, $12K, Summer 2023, Eastern Michigan University.

• [12/2022] Congrats to ISAC school for being re-designation as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-C). So proud to be on the team of this achievement. 

• [12/2022] Congrats to Shorouq Al-Eidi for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation in the area of Covert Timing Channels. It was a pleasure to chair this defense. 

• [09/2022] Jon Walatkiewicz, joined my lab at EMU as a Ph.D. student. 

• [05/2022] I received EMU Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program Fund, “Network Traffic Statistical Metrics Dataset for Future Cybersecurity and Machine Learning Applications”, Project PI, Summer 2022. (Amount:2800$)

• [08/2021] I joined Eastern Michigan University as an assistant professor in Information Security and Applied Computing Department. 

• [03/2020] I am serving as a Lead Guest Editor to a special issue in the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks IJDSN.

Special Collection on Emerging Trends in Data Science and Cybersecurity in the IoT. (Link)

• [02/2020] I am serving as a Guest Editor for a special issue in healthcare and the International Journal of Environmental Research.

Special Issue "Emerging Technologies in Health Informatics and Management" Link  Link

• [05/2019] Proposal (IoT and Cybersecurity lab) funded from TCCR (70,000$).