About Me

Uttam Ghosh, Ph.D, SMIEEE

Associate Professor of Cybersecurity

Co-Ordinator, Graduate Certificate of Data Science

Department of Computer Science and Data Science

School of Applied Computational Sciences

Meharry Medical College

1005 Dr. DB Todd Jr Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208

Office: Room: 212, 3401 West End Av, Nashville, TN 37203

Email: ughosh[at]mmc[dot]edu, ghosh[dot]uttam[at]IEEE[dot] org

I joined Meharry Medical College as an associate professor of cybersecurity in the School of Applied Computational Sciences in January 2022.

Earlier, I worked as an assistant professor of the practice in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University since January 2018.

I obtained my Master’s of Science and doctorate in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India in 2009 and 2013 respectively.

I have post-doctoral experiences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Fordham University, and Tennessee State University.

Research Area:

Cybersecurity
Wireless 5G Networks
Software-Defined Networking
Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
Machine Learning

News and Updates

June 2024: I received a grant from NSF HBCU-EiR.
May 2024: I received best paper award from IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop.
April 2024: I received a renewal grant from TMCF Novartis.
February 2024: I am selected for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program - Faculty program at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) for the Summer 2024 Term.
April '23: I received a grant from TMCF for working on a heart health prediction framework.
March '23: I am selected for the Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) fellowship at Griffiss Institute/Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Rome, NY for the Summer 2023 Term.
February '23: I am selected for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Visiting Faculty Program - Faculty program at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) for the Summer 2023 Term.
February '23: I received a grant from Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative (CEDI) to develop a Cybersecurity course and a Lab.
January '23: Our paper DRIVE: Dynamic Resource Introspection and VNF Embedding for 5G using Machine Learning,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
January '23: Our paper "Dynamic Joint Deployment of SDN Controllers and Hypervisors for Softwarized 5G and Beyond–The Indian Perspective" is accepted and presented in ACM ICDCN 2023 Workshop.
January '23: Our paper "Blockchain Enabled SDN Framework for Security Management in 5G Applications " is accepted and presented in ACM ICDCN 2023 Workshop.
December '22: Our paper "A Secure Blockchain Enabled V2V Communication System Using Smart Contracts" has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
December '22: Our paper Intelligent Task Scheduling Approach for IoT Integrated Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering .
December '22: Our paper "SoftChain: Dynamic Resource Management and SFC Provisioning for 5G using Machine Learning" has been accepted and presented in IEEE Globecom 2022 Workshops.
November '22: Our paper “DeepIIoT: An Explainable Deep Learning Based Intrusion Detection System for Industrial IoT”, Accepted and presented at IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops.
October'22: Our paper "SoftFloat: softwarized 5G-driven network slicing framework for QoS aware UAV communications" has been accepted and presented ACM Mobicom 2022 Workshops.
July '22: Our paper MECpVmS: an SLA aware energy-efficient virtual machine selection policy for green cloud computing is accepted in Cluster Computing.
July '22: Received NSF Grant for the proposal "Efficient Data Communication and Processing for Intelligent Medical Systems with Edge-Cloud Interplay".
June'22: Our paper "Homomorphic Encryption-based Privacy-preserving Federated Learning in IoT-enabled Healthcare System" has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
June '22: Our edited Book "How COVID-19 is Accelerating the Digital Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities" is published with Springer.
January '22: Joined Meharry School of Applied Computational Sciences as an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity.

Prospective Students

I have opening for Graduate Student Researcher. Students having scholarly publication(s) will be given preference.

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Journal Special Issues

IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (IEEE JBHI), Special Issue on AI driven Internet of Medical Things for Smart Healthcare Applications: Challenges, and Future Trends, CFP
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics Distributed and Resilient Machine Learning towards Trustworthy Sustainable Next-G Consumer Electronics. CFP

Workshops/ Special Sessions

5th IoST 5G&B Workshop on Recent Trends of Internet of Softwarized Things in conjunction with ACM Mobihoc 2023.
1st AI-IoMT Workshop on AI and Big Data for Next-G Internet of Medical Things in conjunction with IEEE PICOM 2023.

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