System Design and Security Lab

Anomadarshi Barua

Assistant Professor

Department of Cyber Security Engineering 

George Mason University

email: abarua8@gmu.edu


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 system design and its security, particularly focusing on 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 secured software/hardware implementations of multimodal data. We use 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 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 while I was a PhD student at UCI.

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Our Research Goal

We are located at George Mason University (GMU) which is at the heart of Northern Virginia and very close to Washington D.C.

Our research sits at the intersection of hardware and software layers in CPSs and IoTs, exploring how interactions of cyber and physical components can solve problems at the system levels. Our  research includes the following themes:

💡 Graduate Research Openings: I am looking for self-motivated students interested in Systems to join in Fall’ 24 or Spring’24. 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. 

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Anomadarshi Barua

Assistant Professor at Cyber Security Engineering
George Mason University

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