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
Postdocs and Research Staff
Sunitha Safavat, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2023 - present
Hassan El alami, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2022 - present
Pushpita Chatterjee, Postdoc Fellow, Nov. 2022 - April 31, 2024, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Meharry Medical College, TN, USA
Shola Odeyomi, Postdoc Fellow, April 2022 - Aug 2022, Assistant Professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA&T), NC, USA
Eric Muhati, Postdoc Fellow, 2021 - 2022, Instructor at Oregon State University, OR, USA
Ahmad Suliman, Postdoc Fellow, 2020 - 2021, Staff Fellow, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), USA.
Babajide Salau, Postdoc Fellow, 2020 - 2021, R&D/Aditi Company in DC Area.
Candace Sledge, Project Manager/Coordinator, Jan 2021 - Oct. 2021.
Desta Hagos, Postdoc Research Fellow, June 2022 - October 2024.
Current Graduate (PhD/MS) Students (advisee/co-advisee)
Joed Ngangmeni, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Jose Ruiz Mejia, PhD Student Since Spring 2021
Myracle Jarmon-Moore, PhD Student Since Spring 2021
Oluwajuwon Fawole, PhD Student Since Fall 2023
Abigail Oyekola, PhD Student Since Fall 2023 (Coadvised with Dr. I. Ahmed)
Sanjeev Roka, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Cesa Salaam, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Manish Bhurtel, PhD Student Since Fall 2021
Utsab Khakurel, PhD Student Since 2021
Adrien Njanko, PhD Student Since 2019
Abdullah Almutairi, PhD Student since 2018
Ahmed Alghamdi, PhD Student Since 2018
Mohammed Al-Alshaqi, PhD Student Since 2019
Aeman Almotairi, PhD Student since 2022
Ismail Yesir, PhD Student Since Spring 2021
Gloria Mollah, PhD Student Since Fall 2022
Tian Chong, PhD Student Since Fall 2022
Atul Rawal, PhD, Since 2021
Bella Kuete , PhD student (Coadvised with Dr. I. Ahmed)
Ashish Adhikari, PhD Student since Aug 2018
P Gurung, PhD Student since Aug 2023
P Tarafder, PhD student (Coadvised with Dr. I. Ahmed)
D. Brown, PhD Student since 2023
N. Osafo, PhD Student since 2023
M. Ngueajio, PhD Student since 2023
Brandon Mack, Graduate Student
Jasmine Warden, Graduate Student
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Alumni (PhD Level)
Mohammed Al-Alshaqi, PhD, Defended on December 6, 2024.
Asma Alfardus, PhD, Defended in September 2024
Salomon Satche, PhD, May 2024, District Director at Federal Communications Commission (FCC), USA
Aashma Uprety, PhD, May 2024, Research Scientist, CrowdStrike, USA
Yuba R. Siwakoti, PhD, May 2024, Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Central Washington University, WA, USA
Nasser Alsabilah, PhD, May 2024, Assistant Professor, AI Jouf University, SA
Amani Alzahrani, PhD, May 2024, Assistant Professor, Shaqra University, SA
Tahani Baabdullah, PhD, May 2024, Princess Nora Bint Abdulrahman University, SA
James McCoy, PhD, May 2024, Chief Data Officer at U.S. Census Bureau, USA
Earl Tankard Jr., PhD, May 2024, MSFT, USA
DeMarcus Edwards, PhD, May 2024, Applied ML Research, USA
Jessica Whitaker, PhD, December 2023, Senior Engineer at the Department of Energy, USA
Ghada Abdelmoumin, PhD, December 2023, Professor of Information Technology at NOVA CC, USA
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
Reham Alsabet, PhD, December 2023, SA
Maram Alsharif, PhD May 2024, QA/SA.
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, KPMG Saudi Arabia, Assistant Prof, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, SA
Alumni (MS Level)
Jhoan Sebastian Hernandez Ferro, Graduated in May 2024
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, Graduated in May 2018 Employer: 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/Mentees
Brady Souma
Joshua Carter
Pelumi Adebayo
Morayooluwa Adeyemi
Richard Brobbey
Kaitlyn Ellis
Jeneel Farrell
Emily Jones
Kaitlyn Ellis
Aaryan Panthi
Ife-Michaela J Spencer
Mueizdeen Ajiborode
Kuishon Brown
Teminijesu Oyedele
Chidi Onyekwelu
Oghosa D Osaghae
Olopoenia Ernest
Lauren K Dewberry
Emmanuel C Igban
Philips A Akinbami
Adebola O Babatunde-Lawal
Aku Peace
Ms. Kendal Hall
Mr. Joseph Fletcher
Mr. Tyler Ramsey
Earl Tankard Jr.,
Sean Grant Jr.
Elijah Prentice
Tolulope Akinlabi
Tyson Gouche
Guy Lingani
Iyinoluwa Tugbobo
Akosua Wordie
Camryn Belcher
Sydney Kadegnon
Timothy Ford
Kyndall Jones
Ayron Fears
Tiauna Dodd
Kyle Frederick
Sapnil Tamrakar
S. Dhungel
S. Bhattarai
Ashish Adhikari
Vijay Chaudhary
David Hill
Utsab Khakurel
Tavares Kidd
Lateef Adetona
Jordan Lafontant
Collin Scott
Ms. Kikiola Akanbi
Ms. Jasmon Cooley
Oluwadare O. Bankole
Mr. Derek Major
Ms. Genesis Smothers
Mr. Justin Stewart
Ms. Dalila Scott
Taylor White
Bella Kuete
Kolby Lacy
Brycent Chatfield
Shaunelle Thomas
Shelice Dwyer
David Nesbeth
Shanay Saddler
A. Deep
Nick Sterling Holcomb
Isaac Cushman
David Ames
Macy Beasley
Christopher Ludaway
Abhi Bhimraj
Joshua T. Blasius
Jarvis Dotson
Cornelis Reister
Brandon Lugas
Lenworth Mellis
Salathiel Gaiterdded
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