Latest News about the faculty and students associated with KnACC.
Spring 2024
- Our paper “Comparison of attribute‑based encryption schemes in securing healthcare systems“, authored by R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi was published in Scientific Reports, Nature in March 2024.
- Kelvin Echenim has been selected to participate in the 2024 CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop for IDEALS.
- Kelvin Echenim successfully cleared his comprehensive exams.
- Our paper “Leveraging semantic context to establish access controls for secure cloud-based electronic health records“, authored by R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi was published in the International Journal of Information Management Data Insights.
- Redwan Walid presented our paper “Secure and Privacy-Compliant Data Sharing: An Essential Framework for Healthcare Organizations” at the 10th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing ICMC, in Jan 2024.
Fall 2023
- Our paper IoT-Reg: A Comprehensive Knowledge Graph for Real-Time IoT Data Privacy Compliance,” authored by Kelvin Uzoma Echenim, Lavanya Elluri, and Karuna P Joshi, was accepted at the 3rd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Big Data, in IEEE Big Data conference, December 2023.
- Dr. Dae-young Kim joined the National Children’s Hospital as a Researcher.
- Our paper, Ensuring Privacy Policy Compliance of Wearables with IoT Regulations, led by Kelvin Uzoma Echenim and co-authored by Lavanya Elluri and Karuna P Joshi, was accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS 2023) to be held in Atlanta in November 2023.
- Our paper, An Overview of Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework Domains, led by Josh Bolton, and co-authored by Lavanya Elluri and Karuna P Joshi, was accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2023) to be held in Charlotte in October 2023.
- Subhankar Chattoraj, Mohammad Islam, and Emmanuel Ugwuabonyi joined the KnACC lab as new Ph.D. students in Fall 2023.
- Redwan Walid successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis in August 2023.
- Dae-young Kim successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis in August 2023.
Spring 2023
Dr. Ronak Razavisousan, who successfully defended her thesis in Sep 2022, attended the commencement in May. She is currently a tenure track Assistant Professor at Coppin State University.
Fall 2022
- James Clavin successfully defended his Ph.D. Proposal in December 2022.
- Kelvin Echenim joined the KnACC lab as a new Ph.D. student.
- Ronak Razavisousan successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis in September 2022.
Spring 2022
- Dr. Lavanya Elluri successfully graduated from UMBC and joined Texas A&M – Central Texas University as an Assistant Professor.
- Our paper, Semantically Rich Access Control in Cloud EHR Systems Based on MA-ABE, won the Best Paper award at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud /High Performance and Smart Computing /Intelligent Data and Security (IEEE BigDataSecurity/HPSC/IDS 2022).
- Josh Bolton successfully cleared his Comprehensive Exam.
Fall 2021
Redwan Walid successfully defended his Ph.D. proposal, Cloud-Based Encrypted EHR System with Semantically Rich Access Control, in December 2021.
Lavanya Elluri successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis in November 2021.
Dae-young Kim successfully defended his Ph.D. proposal, Trusted Compliance Enforcement Framework for Large Volume and High Velocity Healthcare Data, in October 2021.
Josh Bolton joined the KnACC lab as a new Ph.D. student.
Spring 2021
Dr. Karuna Joshi was elevated to IEEE Senior member in April 2021.
Spring 2021 was a very good semester in publications. We successfully published papers at conferences like IEEE Services Congress – SCC and ICDH and IEEE Big Data Security on Cloud.
Fall 2020
Two new Ph.D. students, Dae-young Kim and James Clavin joined the KnACC lab.
Spring 2020
Spring 2020 was a very hectic semester for the KnACC lab with many students successfully defending their thesis. Ketki Sane, Divya Ganapathy, Abhishek Mahindrakar, and Adithya Bandi successfully defended their MS Thesis in April 2020. Due to the COVID lockdown, there were only virtual graduation ceremonies.
Ronak Razavisousan successfully defended her Ph.D. proposal in March 2020.
Fall 2019
Sharad Dixit successfully defended his MS Thesis
Lavanya successfully defended her Ph.D. Proposal