Danda Rawat

Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Dr. Rawat
db.rawat@ieee.org

Dr. Danda B. Rawat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Founding Director of the Data Science and Cybersecurity Center (DSC2), Graduate Program Director of Howard-CS Graduate Programs, Director of Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program, and Founding Director of Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.

Dr. Rawat is engaged in research and teaching in the areas of cybersecurity, machine learning, and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, smart cities, software-defined systems, and vehicular networks. His professional career comprises more than 15 years in academia, government, and industry. He has secured over $3 million in research funding from the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Homeland Security, DoD Research Labs, and private foundations.

Dr. Rawat is the recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship in 2017, Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015, the Best Paper Awards and Outstanding Ph.D. Researcher Award in 2009.

He has delivered over 15 Keynotes and invited speeches at international conferences and workshops. Dr. Rawat has published over 200 scientific/technical articles and 9 books. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 30 international journals. He has been in Organizing Committees for several IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE AINA, and so on.

He served as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE GreenCom, IEEE AINA, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, and IEEE VTC conferences. He served as a Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Savannah Section from 2013 to 2017. Dr.

Rawat received a Ph.D. degree from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Rawat is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, a member of ASEE. and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)