Prof. Danda B. Rawat

Howard University, Washington, DC

Research Team

Students I supervise and have supervised can be found at:

Research Center 1: Howard University Data Science and Cybersecurity Center (DSC2)

Research Center 2: DoD Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (CoE-AIML)

Research Lab: Cybersecurity and Wireless Networking Innovation (CWiNs) Lab

Research Staff

Desta Haileselassie Hagos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Sunitha Safavat, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2023 - present
Hassan Elalami, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Pushpita Chatterjee, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Shola Odeyomi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, April 2022 - Aug 2022
Eric Muhati, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2021 - 2022
Ahmad Suliman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Project Manager), 2020 - 2021
Babajide Salau, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2020 - 2021
Candace Sledge, Project Manager/Coordinator, Jan 2021 - Oct. 2021

Current Graduate (PhD/MS) Students (advisee/co-advisee)

Ms. Jessica Whitaker, PhD Student since Aug 2020
Mr. James McCoy, PhD Student since Aug 2018
Ms. Reham Alsabet, PhD Student since Aug 2018
Ms. Amani Alzahrani, PhD Student since Aug 2018
Mr. Ashish Adhikari, PhD Student since Aug 2018
Mr. Salomon Satche, PhD Student: Since Aug 2018
Ms. Ghada Abdelmoumin, PhD Student since 2018
Mr. Abdullah Almutairi, PhD Student since 2018
Dr. Atul Rawal, PhD, Since 2021
Mr. Utsab Khakurel, PhD Student Since 2021
Mr. Adrien Njanko, PhD Student Since 2019
Mr. DeMarcus Edwards, PhD Student Since 2020
Ms. T. Baabdullah, PhD Student Since Fall 2019
Ms. Asma Alfardus, PhD Student Since 2018
Mr. Ahmed Alghamdi, PhD Student Since 2018
Mr. Mohammed Al-Alshaqi, PhD Student Since 2019
Ms. Aashma Uprety, PhD Student Since Spring 2020
Mr. Abdulaziz Alali, PhD Student Since Spring 2018
Mr. Nasser Alsabilah, PhD Student Since Spring 2018

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Alumni (PhD Level)

Neji Mensi, PhD, May 2023, Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, FL, USA
Hassan Karim, PhD, May 2023, Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co., USA
Vijay Chaudhary, PhD, May 2023, Lecturer at Howard University, USA
Bimal Ghimire, PhD, May 2023, Penn State University, Harrisburg, PA USA
Sunitha Safavat, PhD, Dec 2022, Postdoc at Howard University, USA
Abdulaziz Alali, PhD, Dec 2023, Postdoc Fellow at University of Nevada, USA
Felix Olowononi, PhD, May 2022, Tenure-Track Assist. Prof., Marymount University, Arlington, VA, USA
Ghaida Alorini, PhD, May 2022, Senior Research Associate, KPGM, SA
Amani Alshaikh, PhD, May 2022, Technical Support Specialist, Millennium DC, USA
Acklyn Murray PhD, December 2021, System Engineer, Northrop Grumman, USA
Abdulhamid Adebayo, PhD, May 2020, Research Staff, IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Ronald Doku, PhD, May 2020, enior Data Scientist, Oracle Corp., CA, USA
Abdullah Alshammari, PhD, May 2020, Assist. Prof., University of Hafr AlBatin, Head of Cybersecurity Innovation, R&D @ NEOM Authority
Naveen Naik Sapavath, PhD, December 2020, Postdoc, University of California (UC) Davis, CA, USA.
Guy Lingani, PhD, May 2020, CEA IT Head @ HU, DC, USA
Eric Muhati, PhD, Graduated in Aug 2021, Teaching Assist. Prof., Oregon State University, USA
Bassma Saleh, PhD, May 2020, Assistant Prof, King Abdulaziz University, SA
Geremew Begna, PhD, May 2019, Northrop Grumman, USA
E. Olumide Malomo, PhD, Aug. 2018, Associate Professor at Virginia State University, USA
Dema Saad Alorini, PhD, Dec. 2018, Assistant Prof, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, SA

Alumni (MS Level)

Akhil Mohammad, MS, Graduated in May 2022
Mr. Joshua Hector, MS, Graduated in May 2021, Joined Cisco (Systems), Inc, CA
Ms. Yvonne M David, Graduated in May 2021, Joined a Company, MD
Mr. DeMarcus Edwards, MS, Graduated in May 2020, Joined Howard University for PhD
Mr. Utsab Khakurel, MS, Graduated in December 2019, Employer: now PhD student at Howard University
Mr. Abdullah Alshammari, MS, Graduated in May 2018, Joined Howard University for PhD
Mr. Reham Alsabet, MS, Graduated in May 2018, Joined Howard University for PhD
Mr. Yousef Aalsaud, MS, Graduated in December 2020, Joined Howard University for PhD
Ms. Hanan Alshammari. MS Student graduated in 2020, Employer: unknown
Ms. Taylor White, ME, Graduated in May 2018Employer: Intel Corp.
R. Grodi, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016, Employer: Aurora Flight Sciences
N. Sharma, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016 Employer: Palo-Alto Firewall for Network Security
T. Amin, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016 Employer: UT-Dallas PhD Student
Swetha Reddy, Graduated with MS in May 5, 2016Employer: Avion Networks
N. Sterling Holcomb, Graduated with MS in 2018(GSU Alumni)
B. Chatfield, Graduated with MS in 2018at United States Air Force
I. Cushman, Graduated with MS in 2018at VanKirk Electric

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Undergraduate Students

To be added