Grants & Publications

Awarded Grants

Rahimi, N. (COPI), "INtegrated Cyber Instructor Training Ecosystem (IN-CITE)," Sponsored by Department of Labor, Federal, $1,512,000.00. (May 2024 - May 2027).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "Computing Research Center," Sponsored by Jimmy A. Payne Foundation, Foundation, $32,000.00. (August 2024 - July 2025).
Rahimi, S. (PI), "Summer Grant for the Improvement of Instruction award for summer 2024," Sponsored by USM. $3,300.00. (June 2024 - August 2024).
Rahimi, N. (COPI), "Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP) Pathways Alliance," Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $75,716.00. (October 2023 - May 2024).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "A Novel Design for Secure Blockchain as an Anti-Censorship Architecture," Sponsored by College of Applied Sciences & Arts- Southern Illinois University, Other, $9,000.00. (August 2020).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "New Online Course Development-Intro to Machine Learning with Applications in Cybersecurity," Sponsored by Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Illinois University, Other, $5,500.00. (May 2020).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "New Online Course Development-Introduction to Software Security," Sponsored by Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Illinois University, Other, $5,500.00. (May 2020 )
Rahimi, N. (PI), "Studying the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East," Sponsored by Mideast meets Midwest project, Middle Eastern Studies at Missouri State University, State, $5,000.00. (June 2019).
Rahimi, n. (PI), "A Novel Secure Structured Hierarchical Blockchain Infrastructure," Sponsored by Information Technology at Southeast Missouri State University, Other, $13,664.18. (January 2019 ).

Book Chapters(italics represents student contributions)

Rahimi, N. N., Murad, S. A., Lee, S. B. (2024). Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Cybersecurity. Generating Entrepreneurial Ideas With AI (pp. 172--191). IGI Global.
Murad, s. A., Rahimi, N. (in press). Security Challenges in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Quality Assessment and Security in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). CRC press Taylor and Fransis Group.
Rahimi, N., Murad, s. A, Lee, S. B. (2024). Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Cybersecurity. Generating Entrepreneurial Ideas With AI. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3498-0.ch008
Rahimi, N., Gudapati, S. S. V. (2023). The Emergence of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare and Insurance Industry. Blockchain Technology Solutions for Secure of IoT-based Health Systems (pp. 167-182). Elsevier Science, Academic Press.
Rahimi, N., Roy, I., Gupta, B., Bhandari, P., Debnath, N. C. (2021). Blockchain technology and its emerging applications. Blockchain Technology for Data Privacy Management (1st ed., pp. 133--157). CRC Press.
Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2021). Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks: State of the Art and Recommendation. Integration of WSNs into Internet of Things (1st ed., pp. 1--15). CRC Press.

Journal Articles (italics represents student contributions)

Murad, S. A., Azmi, Z. R. M., Muzahid, A. J. M., Sarker, M. M. H., Miah, M. S. U., Bhuiyan, M. K. B., Rahimi, S. N., Bairagi, A. K. (2024). Priority based job scheduling technique that utilizes gaps to increase the efficiency of job distribution in cloud computing. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 41, 100942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2023.100942 Priority-based-job-scheduling-technique-that-utilize_2024_Sustainable-Comput-1.pdf
Murad, S. A., Azmi, Z. R. M., Muzahid, A. J. M., Bhuiyan, M. K. B., Saib, M., Rahimi, N., Prottasha, N. J., Bairagi, A. K. (2024). SG-PBFS: Shortest gap-priority based fair scheduling technique for job scheduling in cloud environment. Future Generation Computer Systems, 150, 232--242.
Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2024). Unveiling Thoughts: A Review of Advancements in EEG Brain Signal Decoding into Text. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00726
Baluguri, A., Pasumarthy, V., Rahimi, N. (in press). Optimizing Network Security via Ensemble Learning: A Nexus with Intrusion Detection. Journal of Information Security (JIS).
Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2024). Secure and Efficient Hierarchical P2P Fog Architecture: A Novel Approach for IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(10), 18796-18807.
Williams, D., Rahimi, S., Smay, J., Hemmati, S. (2023). Optimizing Silver Nanowire Synthesis: Machine Learning Improves and Predicts Yield for a Polyol, Millifluidic Flow Reactor. Appl Nanosci.
Rahimi, N., Roy, I., Liu, Z., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2023). Secured Communication in Generalized Non DHT-based Pyramid Tree P2P Architecture. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 30(3), 235--246.
Roy, I., Mitra, R., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2023). Efficient Non-DHT-Based RC-Based Architecture for Fog Computing in Healthcare 4.0. MDPI (Special Issue Cloud and Edge Computing Systems for IoT), 4(2), 131-149. https://www.mdpi.com/2624-831X/4/2/8
Roy, I., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2023). Infrastructure development of non DHT-based pyramid tree network architecture. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, 91, 116--123.
Roy, I., Rahimi, S., Liu, Z., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2023). On Generalization of Residue Class Based Pyramid Tree P2P Network Architecture. International Journal for Computers & Their Applications, 30(1), 54--65
Maddali, K., Kaluvakuri, S., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2021). A Comprehensive Study of Some Recent Proximity Awareness Models and Common-Interest Architectural Formulations Among P2P Systems. International Journal for Computers & Their Applications acceptance rate, 28(4), 179-192.
Swathi Kaluvakuri, Koushik Maddali, Nick Rahimi, Bidyut GuptaDebnath,, S. K., Maddali, K., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2020). Generalization of RC-based Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured P2P Network Architecture. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 27(2), 74.
Rahimi, N. (2020). Security Consideration In Peer-to-Peer Networks with a Case Study Application. International Journal of Network Security \& Its Applications (IJNSA), 12(2).
Rahimi, N., Nolan, J., Gupta, B. (2019). Android Security and Its Rooting—A Possible Improvement of Its Security Architecture. Journal of Information Security, 10(2), 91--102.
Praveen, M., Majumder, P., Sinha, K., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2018). A Highly Secured Three-Phase Symmetric Cipher Technique. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 25(4), 143--152.
Rahimi, N., Reed, J. J., Gupta, B. (2018). On the Significance of Cryptography as a Service. Journal of Information Security, 9(4), 242--256.
Gupta, B., Alyanbaawi, A., Rahimi, N., Sinha, K., Liu, Z. (2018). Novel Low Latency Load Shared Multicore Multicasting Schemes – An Extension to Core Migration. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 25(3), 132-141.

Peer Reviewed Publications (italics represents student contributions)

S. Murad, N. Rahimi. “Secure and Scalable Permissioned Blockchain using LDE-P2P Networks.” to appear in IEEE IOTSMS. The 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security, San Antonio, TX, Oct 2023.

S. Murad, N. Rahimi. “PhishGuard: Machine Learning-Powered Phishing URL Detection”, to appear in IEEE CPS /The 2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2023.

I, Roy, N. Rahimi, B. Gupta, &N. Debnath. "Infrastructure Development of Non DHT-Based Pyramid Tree Network Architecture." proceedings of 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), 91, 116-123, March 2023.

S. Murad, N. Rahimi, I. Roy, B. Gupta. “Design of a New Secured Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Fog Architecture Based on Linear Diophantine Equation”, proceedings of 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), 91, 86-97, March 2023.

A. Gautam, N. Rahimi. “Viability of Machine Learning in Android Scareware Detection”, proceedings of 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), 91, 86-97, March 2023.

H. Broome, Y. Shrestha, N. Harrison, N. Rahimi. “SMS Malware Detection: A Machine Learning Approach”, IEEE CPS/The 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, pp. 7, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2022.

N. Rahimi. “A Study of the Landscape of Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Mechanisms in Web Based Applications”, 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), pp. 806-811, IEEE, December 2021.

I. Roy, N. Rahimi, S. Kaluvakuri, K. Maddali, B. Gupta. “Design of Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Pyramid Tree-based P2P Network Architecture”, EPiC Series in Computing/The 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, vol. 75, pp. 80-89, 2021.

K. Maddali, S. Kaluvakuri, N. Rahimi, I. Roy, B. Gupta, N. Debnath. “On Designing Secured Communication Protocols along with Anonymity for CRT based Structured P2P Network Architecture”, proceeding of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), Virtual, October 2020.

I. Roy, N. Rahimi, K. Maddali, B. Gupta, N. Debnath. “Design of Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Pyramid Tree-based P2P Network Architecture”, proceeding of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), Virtual, October 2020.

N. Rahimi, N. Martin. “Challenges and Strategies for Online Teaching in Information Technology and Other Computing Programs”, proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education - ACM-Sigite, pp. 218-222, 2020.

N. Rahimi, B. Gupta. “A Study of the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East”, proceedings of 35thInternational Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), San Diego, CA, March 2020.

N. Rahimi, J. Maynor, B. Gupta. “Adversarial Machine Learning: Difficulties in Applying Machine Learning to Existing Cybersecurity Systems”, 35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), San Diego, CA, March 2020.

N. Rahimi, B. Gupta. “Secured Data Lookup in LDE Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2018.

B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K Maddali. “Design of Very Efficient Lookup Algorithms for a Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Porto, Portugal, July 2018.

B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K Maddali. “Design of a New Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network Based on Chinese Remainder Theorem”, proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2018.

B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, “Efficient Data Lookup in Non-DHT Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.

N. Rahimi, B. Gupta. “A Modified Version of DVR-Based Multicasting with Security”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.

B. Gupta, N. Rahimi. “An Efficient Approach for Load-Shared and Fault-Tolerant Multicore Shared Tree Multicasting”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.

N. Rahimi, K. Sinha, and B. Gupta. “LDEPTH: A low diameter hierarchical p2p network architecture”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Poitiers, France, July 2016.

M. Zhu, N. Rahimi. “Experience towards Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts at Different Levels of Undergraduate Courses”, proceedings of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (PDPS), May 2015.

M. Zhu, N. Rahimi. “Promoting Teaching Effectiveness and Cultivating Interests in Parallel and Distributed Computing”, proceedings of EduPar Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (PDPS), Hyderabad, India, May 2015.

N. Marhamati, P. Patel, Y. Althobaiti, E. S. Khorasani, N. Rahimi. “Revisiting Linguistic Approximation for Computing with Words, proceedings of Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, May 2013.

Y. Lee, N. Rahimi, S. Harvey. “A Pre-Kernel Agent Platform for Security Assurance”, proceedings of SSCI, IA IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, IEEE Press, Paris, France, April 2011.

N. Rahimi, Y. C. Lee, M. Zargham. “An Agent-Based Architecture for High Performance Computing over the Internet”, proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Rome, Italy, 2010.

Presentations

The 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, “A Study of the Landscape of Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Mechanisms in Web- Based Applications”, Las Vegas, NV, December 2021.

33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), “On Designing Secured Communication Protocols along with Anonymity for CRT based Structured P2P Network Architecture”, Virtual, October 2020.

33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), “Design of Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Pyramid Tree-based P2P Network Architecture”, Virtual, October 2020.

ACM SIGITE Annual Conference, “Challenges and Strategies for Online Teaching in Information Technology and Other Computing Programs”, Virtual, October 2020.

35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), “Adversarial Machine Learning: Difficulties in Applying Machine Learning to Existing Cybersecurity Systems”, Virtual, March 2020.

35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), “A Study of the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East”, Virtual, March 2020.

Colloquium at Department of Computer Science, “A New Design for Secure Blockchain Infrastructure”, SIUC, Carbondale, IL, November 2018.

Seminar at Harrison College of Business and Computing, “Control Flow Integrity”, SEMO, Cape Girardeau, MO, October 2018.

33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications. (CATA), “Secured Data Lookup in LDE Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, Las Vegas, NV, March 2018.

Hackathon Dunn-Richmond Center on the SIU Campus, “An Analytical Overview of Cryptography as a Service”, Carbondale, IL, February 2018.

IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), “Efficient Data Lookup in Non-DHT Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, Emden, Germany, July 2017.

IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), “A Modified Version of DVR-Based Multicasting with Security”, Emden, Germany, July 2017.

IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), “An Efficient Approach for Load-Shared and Fault- Tolerant Multicore Shared Tree”, Emden, Germany, July 2017.

Envision Healthcare Conf., “Security Awareness at Healthcare Applications”, Denver, Colorado, April 2016.

SIU Research Town Hall Meeting, “Development a Computerized Clinical Decision Support System to Facilitate Tobacco Interventions in Oral Healthcare”, Carbondale, IL, April 2016.