Biography

Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D., is an associate dean for Research & Graduate Studies and a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS). He is also the founding director of the Howard University Data Science & Cybersecurity Center, founding director of DoD Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (CoE-AIML), director of Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab, and director of Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program at Howard University.

Rawat successfully led and established the Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy (RITA), the 15th UniversityAffiliated Research Center (UARC) of the US Department of Defense as the PI/Founding Executive Director at Howard University. Rawat is engaged in research and teaching in the areas of cybersecurity, machine learning, big data analytics and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems (eHealth, energy, transportation), Internet-of-Things, multi domain operations, smart cities, software defined systems and vehicular networks. 

Rawat has secured over $110 million as a principal investigator and over $18 million as a co- principal investigator in research funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US National Security Agency (NSA), US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), National Institute of Health (NIH), US Department of Defense (DoD) and DoD Research Labs, Industry (Microsoft, Intel, VMware, PayPal, Mastercard, Meta, BAE, Raytheon etc.) and private foundations. 

Rawat is the recipient of the US NSF CAREER Award, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scientific Leadership Award, and numerous other awards. Rawat has published over 350 scientific/technical articles and 11 books. He has successfully supervised and graduated 35 PhD students (out of which 28 were under-represented PhD students including 13 female PhD students), successfully supervised 30+ MS students and mentored 7 postdocs, and has been supervising 25 Ph.D. students and mentoring 3 postdocs. Furthermore, he has successfully mentored over 120 minority undergraduate students. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 100 international journals including the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, associate editor of Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, etc.

His Erdös number is 3 and Dijkstra number is 4.