Research mentoring and Supervision

Current Students/ Team Members at ISCAR LAB

  1. Sathish Kumar (Director)
  2. Swaroop Damodaran (PhD Student)
  3. Lakshika Sithamparanathan (PhD Student)
  4. Temitope Adeniyi (PhD Student)
  5. Ahmad Alomari (PhD Student)
  6. Dipen Bhuva (PhD Student)
  7. Tasnia Rahman (PhD Student)
  8. Ryhan Uddin (PhD Student)
  9. Mohammad Yahyaei (PhD Student)

Past/Graduated Students/Team Members at ISCAR Lab

  1. Aravind Alagar Rengharajan (MS Thesis, 2025)
  2. Lakshmisha Ashoka (MS Thesis, 2025)
  3. Sandeep Pula (MS Thesis, 2025)
  4. Raveendra Ponnuru (Post Doctoral Researcher, 2024)
  5. Gurinder Singh (Post Doctoral Researcher, 2024)
  6. Dhanyatha Sriram (MS Thesis, 2024)
  7. James Simon Richard (BS Honors Student, 2024)
  8. Gaurang Patel (MS Thesis, 2023)
  9. Abhinav Abhishek (MS Thesis, 2022)
  10. Peter Hart (BS Honors Thesis, 2021)
  11. Summer USRA Undergraduate Students
    • Joshua Wiess-2023
    • Carmen Garcia – 2023
    • John Parker – 2023
    • Danny K DeJesus-2022
    • Aayush Shastri-2022
    • Harsh Shah -2021
    • Alexander Clemente -2021
    • Thomas Lombardo -2020
    • Karim Nasreldin – 2020

Future Students/Team Members at ISCAR Lab

I am looking for hardworking, creative, and self-motivated post-doctorate scholars, graduate and undergraduate (PhD / Master / Bachelor) students with interests in cybersecurity, machine learning, distributed systems and related areas. If you are interested in joining my laboratory, please send me an email at s.kumar13@csuohio.edu with your CV, research interests and contact information, so we can set up a time to talk! 

Excellent programming skills (For example. one or two of Python, Java, C, C++) is required.

Expertise in one or more areas in the following is desirable.
– Cybersecurity and Resiliency
– Artificial intelligence and machine/deep learning
– Data science, data mining and multi-modal (text, image, voice, video) big data analytics
– Knowledge representation, data discovery and visualization 
– Distributed Systems, High-performance, and distributed computing

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