Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta

Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta Computer Science PDA Fall 2012

I was on Professional Development Assignment (PDA) during the Fall semester of 2012. I have been actively involved in scholarly and professional activities during the period. In particular, I spent most of my time in conducting research and managing a federally-funded project, and supervising and mentoring students in campus. I was also active in three university committees and worked on course recertification application for national recognition of Center for Information Assurance.

My name is listed among the top computer scientists whose h-index is above 40 (based on my more than 200 publications, +4000 citations and my current h-index is 46 and g-index 85), only Computer Science Faculty (in Tennessee and in the Tri-State region). The h-index and g-index are now used world-wide as scholarly stature of a researcher in Computer Science (the complete list at UCLA site: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.html ).

As per the plan, I did research in the field of nature-inspired computing and its applications -- design and development of intelligent software solutions inspired by biological and natural systems. These investigations resulted in following publications and a few others are in preparation.

Publications during the Period: ======1. Naran M. Pindoriya, Dipankar Dasgupta, Dipti Srinivasan, Marco Carvalho. Infrastructure Security for Smart Electric Grid: A Survey. A chapter in the book "Systems and Optimization Aspects of Smart Grid Challenges" Marco Carvalho, Vijay Pappu, Panos M. Pardalos (Editors), Springer, Verlag, To appear. 2. Hasan Ali, Dipankar Dasgupta. Effects of Time Delays in the Electric Power Grid. A chapter in the book “Critical Infrastructure Protection VI” (IFIP AICT), Jonathan Butts and Sujeet Shenoi (Editors), Springer, Verlag, 2012. 3. D. Dasgupta, D. Garrett, G. Hernandez, F. Nino, A. Kaushal, P. K. Vejandla, K. Chaudhuri, S. Medapati. A genetic-based solution to the Navy's Sailor Assignment Problem. A book chapter in “Variants of Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Applications”, edited by Raymond Chiong, Thomas Weise and Zbigniew Michalewicz, Springer-Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-23423-1. 4. Denise Ferebee, Dipankar Dasgupta, Qishi Wu. A Cyber-Security Storm Map. In proceedings of the ASE/IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security, Washington DC. December 14-16, 2012. 5. Shubhalaxmi J Kher, Victor Nutt, Dipankar Dasgupta, Mohd Hasan Ali, Paul Mixon. A Detection Model for Anomaly in Smart Grid with Sensor Network. In the proceedings of IEEE Future of Instrumentation International Workshop (FIIW 2012). Gatlinburg, Tennessee, October 8-9, 2012. 6. Dipankar Dasgupta and Durdana Naseem. Security and Compliance Testing Strategies for Cloud Computing. Presented and in the proceedings of 6th International Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Software Testing, FedEx Institute, Memphis, July 24-25, 2012. 7. Dipankar Dasgupta, Denise M. Ferebee. Consequences of Diminishing Trust in Cyberspace. Technical Report No. CS-12-002, October 10, 2012.

Honors/Awards/Services: ====== Recipient of 2012 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, University of Memphis  Gave commencement speech at university's summer graduation event Click for video on August 12, 2012, details of the talk at commencement website with photos, etc.  Got nominated for IEEE Fellow  Member of 3 University Committees (T&P Committee of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty Senate, Eminent Faculty Award Committee)  Serving as an Advisory Board member of MIT Geo Spatial Data Security Center (gave a talk at MIT summer school)  Associate Editor-in-Chief, Immune Computation Journal, Publisher: AICIT, Korea.  Editorial board member of 4 journals  IEEE task force chair on Artificial Immune Systems (AIS), since 2002  Council of Editors, and IEEE Senior Member and ACM Life Member.

Invited Talks/Hosted Events: ====== Keynote speech on Cloud Security at Network Science and Reconfigurable Systems for Cybersecurity (NSRSC) Conference near Washington D.C. August 28-29, 2012.  Featured speaker at Alumni Association's UMAR annual "Coffee and Conversation" at the home of University President Shirley C. Raines on September 11, 2012 at 10 a.m.  Gave a series of lectures on Information Risk in Finland during September 17-21, 2012  Hosted at 5th Annual Cyber Security Expo @ Uni. of Memphis, October 19, 2012.  Keynote Speaker at seventh International Conference on "Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Application" (BIC-TA) held at Gwalior, India, December 14 - 16, 2012.  Gave keynote speech at International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (ISCOS 2012) , NIT Surathkal, Mangalore, India, December 17-18, 2012.  Gave keynote speech at IEEE International conference ET2ECN2012 , Surat, Gujarat, India, December 19-21, 2012.Gave keynote at International conference on soft computing for problem solving SocProS-2012 at Jaipur, India, December 28-30, 2012.

Outreach (Professional Activities/Technical Program Committee Member): ====== Program Committee Member of Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL), Ha Noi, Vietnam, 16-19 December 2012.  Advisory Committee member for SCIS-ISIS special session on bio-inspired ICT (SCIS-ISIS) at Kobe, Japan, in November 2012  Program committee member of 11th International Conference on Information Systems and Industrial Management (CISIM), Venice, Italy, September 26-28, 2012  Program committee member of IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT 2012) will be held in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on Sept. 3-6, 2012.  Program Committee member of 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS) ,Taormina, Sicily - Italy, 28-31 August, 2012  Associate Editor-in-Chief, Immune Computation Journal, Publisher: AICIT, Korea.  Proposed Cyber Security Domestic Preparedness Consortium (with 5 other universities) and attended Consortium Meeting at Washington DC, November 26-28  Meeting with FedEx-IT Compliance VP (Mr. Nik Puri) on November 29, 2012  Visited Orlando for DoD meeting and gave a talk, December 2-3, 2012  Established collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cisco and other Universities.  Served as an External Examiner of a Ph.D student in India  As CfIA Center Director: manage center activities, participate in NSA/DoD events, administer scholarships, certificate program and keep up with National IA center of excellence designation.  Actively involved in national Cyber Watch consortium  Exhibited research at FIT Innovation Expo, September 27th  Hosted Visitor Mr. Al Davis from Texas A & M (TEEX)

 Gave a research talk to DoD visitor on November 16th, Business School.  Hosted a Visitor Dr. M. Kulkarni from IITM, Mumbai, India on Oct. 29-30th  Participate in weekly Teleconference with MIT on IARPA project.

Funding Efforts/Project Activities: ====== A project called “Negative Authentication System” funded by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) awarded (~$852K) in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Click for press release , Also published at Memphis Business Journal.  Collaborated with other departments including Electrical Engineering Department on Power Grid Security project  Public Service Funds (to host Cyber Expo), The University of Memphis, $1250.00  Submission of DARPA Fast Track proposal.  Submitted two NSF proposals  Submitted 2 whitepapers during the period.

Courses Taught in Fall:

Course No. Course Title Semester Number Enrolled COMP Independent Fall 4 7/8901 Studies COMP7982 Research Fall 2 Project Others:

 Post-Doctoral Fellow Supervised 1 (Dr. Denise Ferebee)  Committee Member of 2 Masters Projects (Siddhartha Poreddy and Kuldeep Sharma)  Mentored 3 Students in IA graduate certificate program and involved in admission process  Guided 2 Masters Projects (Ashutosh Patil and Durdana Naseem, Graduated in December 2012) I believe that the PDA program helped me in advancing my research significantly. Thanks for giving me this opportunity.