Dr. Avinash Srinivasan

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About Me

Dr. Avinash Srinivasan earned his B.E. (Industrial Production, 1999) from University of Mysore with Honors and M.S. (Computer Science, 2003) from Pace University, New York with Computer Science Distinguished Achievement Award for Academic Excellence. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University in Aug. 2008. During his doctoral studies, he was a recipient of two prestigious university-wide awards - Newell Doctoral Fellowship and Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence.

Dr. Srinivasan joined Temple University as an Associate Professor Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences in Fall 2014. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at George Mason University (2012-2014) and Assistant Professor of Computer Forensics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (2008-2012).

Dr. Srinivasan has been actively engaged in research on network security and forensics, forensic analysis of file systems, macintosh forensics, reputation and trust-based security models for wireless and sensor networks, and terrorist network modeling. He has published 43 papers in top conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SAC, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICNC, and IEEE ICCCN. He welcomes any research/project collaboration on the above research topics.

He has helped establish an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DoD DC3) and Temple University, and serve as the Program Manager overseeing the EPA.

Spring 2017 - Teaching

CIS 3605 Introduction to Digital Forensics
CIS 5210 Seminar in Information Science
CIS 2229 Architecture, Operationg Systems, and Networking

Patent(s)

Title: "CryOnto - A Cryptography-Ontology based Conditional Anonymity Framework".
Provisional Files: July-2016.

Active Grants

Title: "A Portable Lightweight Cyberforensics Toolkit for Live forensics on SCADA Systems".
Role: PI (Temple Univ.); and Overall Project Technical Lead
Agency: NAVSEA/TDI (Primary)
Award Type: Phase-I STTR
Performance Period: June-2016 to May 2017.

Recent Publications

Avinash Srinivasan, J. Wu and J. Shi. "Secure Android Covert Channel with Robust Survivability to Service Provider Restrictions". In press International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN)}, Vol. x, No. x, p.p. xx-xx, 2016.

Wei Zhang, Siwang Zhou, Avinash Srinivasan, Jie Wu and Yaping Lin. "Detecting Attacks Smartly in Vehicle Cloud Computing". In 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (IEEE CUIC), July 18-21, 2016, Toulouse, France.

A. Srinivasan, J. Wu, R. Joy and H. Aldharrab. "SURREAL: SecURe coveRt peEr communicAtion over BitTorrentprotocoL." Accepted to appear In IEEE ICC 2016 Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, May 23 - 27, 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A. Srinivasan, J. Wu, and Justin Shi. "STUMP – STalling offline password attacks Using pre-hash ManiPulations". In the Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015), Dec. 14 - 17, 2015, Melbourne, Australia.