Starting in Fall 2026, I will be joining the Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas as a Professor of Instruction in the Information Systems Area.

Prior, I was an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Dallas. I received a Phd and MS in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, where my research was focused on studying the properties of wireless sensor networks. I was fortunate to be advised by Sirin Tekinay and Grace Guiling Wang, and I continue to be influenced by the ideas in network theory and graph theory that I learned during my time at NJIT. Previously, I received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications (with distinction) from Manipal Institute of Technology in India. My interests in network science from a single elective called Mobile Networks that I took during my final year of my undergraduate education.

My CV is here. (Last updated in August 2026).

Research interests

My current research interests are in the areas of cybersecurity, network science, blockchain, and computational social science. I am interested in interdisciplinary research, and I have collaborated and published with researchers in diverse areas in network science, cybersecurity, philosophy of technology, blockchain, machine learning, and computational social science. I was the co-recipient of the 2011 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Explorations Award for research into the navigation behavior of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.

Teaching

At UTD, I teach a variety of courses related to cyber governance, policy, and strategy. Previously, at the University of Dallas’s Satish and Yasmin Gupta College of Business, I was the recipient of the Haggerty Excellence in Teaching Award, where my teaching was lauded for exemplary classroom instruction, exceptional advising, and mentoring.

Professional Affiliations and Other Interests

I am a Senior Member of the IEEE and the ISSA, and a member of (ISC)2 and Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys). I hold a CISSP certification from the (ISC)2.

Outside of teaching and research, I spend my time with my family, reading, gardening, and studying ancient languages.