Recent News

• November 2025: Our paper is accepted into ACL 2026 (one of the flagship conferences in language processing, Acceptance rate 18%) 😆

• November 2025: Our paper is accepted into HOST 2026 (9 out of 41 papers are accepted in the first round, Acceptance rate 21%) 😆

• September 2025: We have submitted a total of 4 papers to ACL 2026, HOST 2026, and ICASSP 2026. 

• Our work is interviewed by Reuters, September 2025, link: Reuters

• September 2025: Got Undergraduate research funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia - CCI 😆

• May 2025: Will be working as a reviewer in the NSF panel 😄

• September 2024: Got Undergraduate research funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia - CCI 😆

• September 2024: Our paper is accepted into ACSAC 2024 😃

• May 2024: Will be working as a reviewer in the NSF panel 😄

• March 2024: Will be working as the Publication Chair for ISC 2024 😀

• February 2024: Designing new assistive technology for Dysarthria 😀

• January 2024: Started collaborating with the University of Louisville Kentucky on robotics systems 😀

• January 2024: Reviewer of IEEE Computer 😀

• January 2024: Started teaching CYSE: 580: Hardware and Cyber-Physical System in the Spring Semester 🤣

• November 2023: External member of the ECE Hiring Committee, 2023 😀

• September 2023: Senior Design Project mentoring on Transductive Covert Channel and Large Language Models (LLMs) in ICSs Security 😀

• August 2023: Started teaching CYSE: 580: Hardware and Cyber-Physical System 🤣

• August 2023: Joined George Mason University (GMU) as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Cyber Security Engineering 😀

• May 2023: Our paper got accepted into HOST 2023 😁

• December 2022: Our paper was accepted into ACSAC 2022. Got best paper award 🎉 🏆

• November 2022: Our paper was accepted into CCS 2022 👏

• October 2022: Our paper was accepted into RAID 2022 👏

• October 2022: Our paper was accepted into ICCAD 2022 👏

• August 2022: Our paper was accepted into CHES 2022 👏

• March 2021: Our paper was accepted into IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)  👏

• March 2021: Our paper was accepted into IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 👏

• August 2020:  Our paper was accepted into USENIX 2020👏

About me

I am a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University (GMU). Before joining GMU in the Fall 2023, I was a Ph.D. student at the Univesity of California Irvine (UCI) where I received my Ph.D. in the Spring 2023.  I received my M.S. degree in Embedded Computing Systems jointly at the University of Southampton (UoS) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2016.  I also have worked in several industries in North America and Europe, such as Intel Corporation (USA), Solidigm (USA), Nordic Semiconductor (Norway), and IDEAS (Norway).  

My research interest broadly lies in the areas of signal processing, system design, and its security, particularly focusing on power systems, healthcare systems, industrial control systems, sensors, and robotics. I lead the  System Design and Security research group, which focuses on designing and improving the security of multimodal systems using secure software/hardware implementations of multimodal data. We use power system, audio, visual, pressure, mmWave, and electromagnetic data from multimodal systems and provide targeted solutions by combining sensors and systems together. We also take a holistic approach to fundamentally enhance the security investigation of a system from the ground up, i.e., starting from analyzing system designs, evaluating trustworthy analog and digital signals, monitoring the system states, and building verified/high-assurance defenses. As part of this process, we combine theory and practice by drawing inspiration from machine learning, HW/SW co-design, signal processing, and quantum computing.

Our research results have led to publications in tier-1 conferences like ACL, ICASSP, HOST, ACM CCS, USENIX, ACSAC, RAID, and CHES, system conferences like ICCPS and ICCAD, and security journals like TDSC and TIFS (Google Scholar). Our work received the best paper award in ACSAC 2022, and we got several media coverages.

💡 Graduate Research Openings: I am looking for self-motivated students interested in Systems to join in Fall’ 26 or Spring’26. Drop me an email with your CV if you want to share your interests with me. If you are not currently at George Mason but are interested in my research, please apply to the INFT - CYSE and make sure to mention my name as a faculty member you are interested in working with. 

💡 MS Thesis Research Opportunity: I have openings for George Mason MS students to take part in research projects and have hands-on experiences. Drop me an email to further discuss. 

💡 Undergraduate Research Openings: I have openings for George Mason undergraduates to take part in research projects and have hands-on experiences. Drop me an email to further discuss.