The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Ashok Vardhan Raja

 Ashok Vardhan Raja

Title

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity 

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Education

Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science (Computer Science) at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, May 2023
M.S. in Cybersecurity Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, May 2019
B.S in Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Aug 2017 

Research Areas

AI-enabled UAV Cybersecurity Cyber Physical Systems Security and Privacy Machine Learning 

Publications

Ashok Raja, Mengjie Jia, and Jiawei Yuan, “Towards the Security of AI-enabled UAV Anomaly Detection”, In the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, June 2023

Mengjie Jia, Ashok Raja, and Jiawei Yuan, “A Hybrid Delay-aware Approach towards UAV Flight Data Anomaly Detection”, In the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computing (ICNC), Hawaii, USA, Feb 2023

Ashok Raja, Laurent Njilla, and Jiawei Yuan, “Adversarial Attacks and Defenses Toward AI-Assisted UAV Infrastructure Inspection”, in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 23, December 1, 2022

Julio Galvan, Ashok Raja, Yanyan Li, and Jiawei Yuan, “Sensor Data-Driven UAV Anomaly Detection Using Deep Learning Approach”, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Diego, CA, November 2021

Ashok Raja, Laurent Njilla, and Jiawei Yuan, “Blur the Eyes of UAV: Effective Attacks on UAV-based Infrastructure Inspection”, IEEE 33rd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Virtual, November 2021