I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computing at Southern Illinois University. I am the founding director of Security and Privacy Enhanced Machine Learning Lab (SUPREME Lab), where my group develops privacy-enhanced secure systems with machine learning applications. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Cyber Security and Privacy Research (CaSPR) Lab at Florida International University. My current research interests include security and privacy with applications in online and geosocial networks, machine learning, wireless networks, distributed systems, and mobile applications.

My research has been published in reputed journals and leading international conferences including ACM TSC, Nature Scientific Reports, ICWSM, ACM CHI, ACM WebSci, and has received notable media attention including from NBC 6 and Sage Research Methods. I am serving on the editorial boards and program committees in numerous prestigious conferences and journals including IEEE COMPSAC, EAI SecureComm, ACM CCSC, and ACL ALW. I am the recipient of several research travel grants and have been invited by Facebook Research to their HQ. Prior to joining SIU, I worked as a research mentor for FIU summer research programs (such as Science without Borders, NSF-RET, NSF-REU).