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Nitesh Saxena - Professor, Computer Science, Dean's Research Fellow

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

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Greetings! I am a Full Professor of the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Texas A&M University (A&M), and a Dean’s Research Fellow at the College of Engineering & Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Broadly, I work in the areas of computer and network security, and applied cryptography. My particular focus is on fundamental, transformative, inter-disciplinary and game changing research, which can go beyond the traditional confines of academic domain and make a positive impact to the lives of end users hopefully relatively quickly.

My students and I run the SPIES — Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems — research lab. Besides research, I have a major emphasis on workforce development, especially in areas related to cybersecurity. In this line, I am currently a co principal Investigator of the  TAMU CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, funded by NSF. Previously, I was the principal investigator and director of the UAB CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program (2017-2021), and had served as the Co-Director of UAB’s M.S. program in Cyber-Security (2012-2021).  I also co-led UAB’s Center for Cyber Security (2018-2021), which is an NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R).

My research has been externally supported by NSF (multiple grants and multiple programs, including SaTC, CICI and SFS), NSA, NIJ/DoJ, Google (2 Faculty Research Awards), Comcast, Cisco, Microsoft Research, MxD, Intel, Nokia, and Research in Motion.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from UC Irvine. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Before joining A&M, I was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and before then, I was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

Note for Students:  I am actively looking for exceptionally bright prospective PhD/MS/BS students to join my research group. If interested, please contact me with your CV.

Recent Selected Contributions/Grants/Awards (2013-2022):

  • Leading a $1.2 Million NSF Medium Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Grant (SaTC) Grant, 2022
  • Co Leading a $687K grant from the National Security Agency (NSA), 2022
  • Co Leading TAMU’s $4.5 Million NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant, 2022
  • Dean’s Research Fellow, 2022
  • Fortune’s Top Master’s Program in Cybersecurity, 2022 (architected  and directed for a decade previously at UAB)
  • Leading a $75,000 MxD Grant, 2021
  • $500,000 NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) Grant, 2021
  • Leading a $900,000 NSF Medium Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Grant (SaTC) Grant, 2020
  • A $550,000 supplement on our ongoing grant NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant, 2019
  • Runner Up, The Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, Percom 2019
  • Research grant from Microsoft Research to study security warnings via the Neuro Security methodology introduced at the SPIES lab, 2019
  • NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Grant (SaTC) Grant, 2017
  • Graduate School Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship, 2016/17
  • NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant, 2016/17
  • The NIJ GRF-STEM fellowship, 2016/17 (for my PhD student, Ajaya Neupane)
  • NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Grant (SaTC) Grant, 2015
  • NSF Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) Grant, 2015
  • Comcast Research Award, 2014
  • NDSS 2014 Distinguished Paper Award
  • Google Research Award, 2013
  • Cisco Grant, 2013
  • Papers at ACM TOPS’21, TMC’21, MobiCom’21, EuroS&P’21 (2 papers), AsiaCCS’21 (3 papers), WiSec’21 (2 papers); ACSAC’20 (3 papers), WiSec’20; NDSS’19, Percom’19, ACSAC’19 (2 papers); Oakland’18, TDSC’18, TMC’18, ACSAC’18, WiSec’18; CCS’17 (2 papers), WWW’17, TDSC’17, ICDCS’17, ACSAC’17, WiSec’17 (2 papers); CCS’16, NDSS’16, ACSAC’16 (2 papers), WiSec’16 (2 papers), TIFS’16; CCS’15, ACSAC’15 (2 papers), ESORICS’15, Percom’15, TIFS’15; CCS’14,   NDSS’14 (2 papers), Percom’14, ICME’14; TETC’13, TIFS’13, TDSC’13, WiSec’13
  • Extensive Media Coverage including NY Times, MSN, NBC, Fox, CNN, Discovery News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Tech, CNBC, CNET, MIT Tech Review, ACM TechNews, Bloomberg, Economist, ZDNet, CACM News, Slashdot, Guardian, Register, HackerNews, Bleeping Computer, Science Daily, Motherboard and Conversation.

Editorial Boards:

  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) (since 2021)
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) (since 2019)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) (from 2013 to 2016)
  • Springer’s International Journal of Information Security (IJIS) (from 2013 to 2018)

Recent Program Committees:

  • 2023: CCS, ACSAC, CNS, ICICS, MetaCom
  • 2022: USENIX Security, CCS, ACSAC, ACNS, ASIACCS, WWW (S&P track), WiSec
  • 2021: CNS (TPC Co-Chair); WWW (S&P Track), ASIACCS, PETS, SADFE, WiSec, ACSAC, ICICS, WPES
  • 2020: SecureComm (TPC Co-Chair), IJCB (Area Chair), Oakland, PETS, ASIACCS; WWW (S&P Track), ACSAC, ACSAC Artifact Evaluation, WiSec, CNS, ICICS
  • 2019: Oakland, CNS (TPC Area Chair), CCS, ACSAC, ACSAC Artifact Evaluation Track, PETS, WiSec
  • 2018: WWW (S&P Track); CCS; Wisec: ISI (TPC Chair); SciSec
  • 2017: IEEE ISBA (TPC Co-Chair), WiSec, SEC, ESORICS, WPES
  • 2016: IEEE RFID (TPC Co-Chair), Protocols and Security Track), CCS, ESORICS, WiSec, CANS, WPES, SPVAN, RFIDSec
  • 2015: USENIX Security, NSS, RFIDSec, ESORICS, CCS, ICCCN, LightSec, ICISC

Recent News

  • Paper accepted to Oakland 2023 March 10, 2023
  • Paper (conditionally) accepted to MobiSys 2023 February 27, 2023
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2023 February 21, 2023
  • 2 full papers accepted to WiSec 2023 January 28, 2023
  • Cybersecurity Program Led By Dr. Saxena Ranks Best! January 25, 2023
  • EarSpy in Media January 25, 2023
  • Dr. Saxena is a Co-PI on Thematic AI Lab November 28, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ICISC 2022 November 28, 2022
  • Paper accepted to PMC 2022 November 28, 2022
  • A New Grant from NSA October 17, 2022
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as a Dean’s Research Fellow! October 17, 2022
  • Dr. Saxena to lead a new SaTC Medium project on Election Security July 16, 2022
  • SPIES Lab’s 12th PhD Graduate — Anuradha Mandal July 16, 2022
  • SPIES Lab’s 11th PhD Graduate — Payton Walker July 6, 2022
  • Two papers accepted to PST 2022 June 9, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ICDCS 2022 April 4, 2022
  • Paper accepted to CHIL 2022 March 19, 2022
  • 2 papers accepted to WiSec 2022 March 19, 2022
  • Paper accepted to EuroS&P 2022 February 12, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ASIACCS 2022 February 12, 2022

Contact Info

Nitesh Saxena

PETR 238

435 Nagle Street

College Station, Tx 77843-3112
email: nsaxena[at]tamu.edu (best way to reach me)

RSS SPIES Lab, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Paper accepted to Oakland 2023
  • Paper (conditionally) accepted to MobiSys 2023
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2023
  • 2 full papers accepted to WiSec 2023
  • Cybersecurity Program Led By Dr. Saxena Ranks Best!
  • EarSpy in Media
  • Dr. Saxena is a Co-PI on Thematic AI Lab
  • Paper accepted to PMC 2022
  • Paper accepted to ICISC 2022
  • A New Grant from NSA

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