Dr. Ezhil Selvam Kalaimannan

Dr. Ezhil Kalaimannan, an Associate Professor, conducts research in the wide areas of cybersecurity and network defense. Other significant areas include wireless networking, digital forensics, algorithmic theory, graph theory, operations research, and cybersecurity education. He is currently a co-PI on a $2.3 million grant titled “Argo Cyber Emerging Scholars (ACES): Developing a Cybersecurity Community of Practice”, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. The goals of this grant program are aligned with the U.S. strategy to develop a superior cybersecurity workforce. Dr. Kalaimannan’s current research focuses on the security of cyber-physical systems (Electrical Smart Power Grids) and fingerprinting networked operating systems (OS’s) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Dr. Kalaimannan’s research has been published in prestigious journals such as Computers & Operations Research by Elsevier, Access by IEEE, Internet of Things (IoT) by IEEE, Security and Privacy by Wiley, and Security and Privacy by IEEE.