Research Projects

Currently Active :

1. Adversarial Malware Analysis - An Artificial Intelligence Driven Hands-On Curriculum for Next Generation Cyber Security Workforce (award 2230609)

   • Lead Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Principal Investigators: Mahmoud Abdelsalam

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Indranil Bhattacharya, Cory Gleasman

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2023 - 2026)

2. CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): An Enhanced and Integrated Scholar Experience in Cybersecurity (award 2043324)

   • Principal Investigator: Muhammad Ismail

   • Former Principal Investigator: Ambareen Siraj

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta, Denis Ulybyshev, Eric Brown

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2021 - 2026)

3. Artificial Intelligence Assisted Malware Analysis (award 2025682) 

   • Lead Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Principal Investigators: Sudip Mittal, Mahmoud Abdelsalam

   • Former Co-Principal Investigator: Sheikh Ghafoor

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2020 - 2024)

4. Long Range Wirelessly Powered Multi-Variate Sensor Network for Continuous Monitoring of the Soil Health (award 2226612)

   • Principal Investigator: Charles Van Neste

   • Co-PI: Maanak Gupta, Brian Leckie, Holly Stretz

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2022 - 2025)

5. Department of Defense- CySP Scholarship Program

   • Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Co-PI: Eric Brown

   • Sponsor: Department of Defense (2023-2025)

Completed (10):

6. NSA Faculty Development Grant.

   • Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Brown

   • Sponsor: Department of Defense (2023)

7. CyberSecurity Education Diversity Initiative (CEDI) Coalition Participation.

   • Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Brown

   • Sponsor: Department of Defense (2020-2023)

8. NSA GenCyber Camps at Tennessee Tech University

   • Principal Investigator: Eric Brown

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Sponsor: Department of Defense (2022, 2023)

9. Department of Defense- CySP Scholarship Program

   • Principal Investigator: Eric Brown

   • Co-PI: Maanak Gupta

   • Sponsor: Department of Defense (2022-2024)

10. Low-Frequency Metamaterial for High-Power and High-Efficiency Wireless Power Transfer

• Principal Investigator: Indranil Bhattacharya

• Co-PI: Maanak Gupta

• Sponsor: Tennessee Tech University (2022 - 2023)

11. JROTC Cyber Academy Pilot Program, 2022.

1. • Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation 

12. Quasi-Wireless Capacitive (QWiC) Surface Power for Adaptive and Reconfigurable Sensor Elements on Space Infrastructure

1. • Principal Investigator: Charles Van Neste

   • Co-Principal Investigators: Maanak Gupta, Satish Mahajan, Denis Ulybyshev

   • Sponsor:  National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA (2020 - 2022)

13. DoD - CySP Academic Outreach Capacity Building Proposal

10. • Principal Investigator: Ambareen Siraj

    • Former Co-Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

    • Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Brown

    • Sponsor: National Security Agency (2020 - 2021) 

14. Secure Cloud Assisted Smart Farming Ecosystem

10. • Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

    • Sponsor: Tennessee Tech University (2020 - 2021)

15. EDGE Creative Inquiry Curriculum Grant

• • Principal Investigator: Maanak Gupta

  • Sponsor: Tennessee Tech University (2019 - 2020, 2020 - 2021)

Projects Supported my PhD research:

1. CREST Center for Security and Privacy Enhanced Cloud Computing (C-SPECC)

   • Principal Investigator:  Ravi Sandhu

   • Co-Principal Investigators: Nicole Beebe, Guadalupe Carmona, Ram Krishnan, Jeff Prevost 

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2017 - 2022)

2. Attribute Based Access Control for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

   • Principal Investigator:  Ram Krishnan

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu 

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2014 - 2018)

3. Fine-Grained, Dynamic Virtual Resource Separation in Cloud Platforms for Assured Delivery of Cloud Based Services

   • Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan

   • Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu

   • Sponsor: U.S Dept of Defense ARL (2015 - 2018)

4. Supply Chain Security and Quality Control in Business and Social Context

   • Principal Investigator: Wei-Ming Lin 

   • Co-Principal Investigators: Ravi Sandhu, Kefeng Xu, Yao Zhao 

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2015 - 2018)

5. Privacy-Enhanced Secure Data Provenance 

   • Lead Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu 

   • Principal Investigator:  Elisa Bertino, Murat Kantarcioglu 

   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (2011 - 2017)