Jul 16, 2026
NSF SaTC Award, 2026: Principal Investigator of “TRUSST-O-RAN,” developing trustworthy, resilient, and scalable security techniques for Open RAN to strengthen national cybersecurity and mission-critical communications.
I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. I develop intelligent, secure, and experimentally validated wireless systems that can operate reliably under interference, mobility, imperfect channel knowledge, heterogeneous network conditions, and adversarial behavior.
My research integrates communication and signal-processing theory, machine learning, software implementation, and experimental evaluation using software-defined radios, Open RAN platforms, cellular systems, and large-scale wireless testbeds. My current work is organized around three connected directions: trustworthy and AI-native Open RAN; wireless security and automated network testing; and integrated sensing and communication.
A defining feature of my research is the translation of theoretical and algorithmic advances into reproducible prototypes and experimental demonstrations. This approach supports my broader goal of developing deployable wireless systems that are adaptive, resilient, secure, and responsive to real-world operational conditions.