Data-driven Intelligence and Security for Cyber-physical Systems (DISCS) Lab

Director
Uttam Ghosh, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cybersecurity
Data-driven Intelligence and Security for Cyber-physical Systems (DISCS) Lab, primarily focuses on designing and developing secure AI-based smart cyber-infrastructure for healthcare systems. The lab integrates software-defined networking (SDN), 5G, edge, fog, and cloud technologies along with AI tools for providing efficient and secure data communication and processing for intelligent healthcare and cyber-physical systems.

Objectives
- Research and Engineering
Our research will range from expanding trustworthy, reliable, explainable, fair, robust and secure ML algorithms and AI systems for CPS/IoT applications.
- Education and Workforce Development
We will educate, develop, and sustain a large and diverse workforce through public awareness, graduate and K-12 education, and outreach activities.
- Broadening Participation
A more diverse and inclusive community is essential to advancing the field of cybersecurity and AI/ML research and education.
Publications
Published work is available on GitHub. List of publication is available on Google Scholar.
Presentations
Presentations are available on the DISCS Lab YouTube channel.
Lab Members
Post-doc: TBA
Graduate/ PhD Students:
- Saul Ashley
- Jacquese Starling
Grant Support
- CAE-Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative
- NSF CISE-MSI
- TMCF
Collaborators
Internal
Eugene Levin, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Data Science
Meharry Medical College
Todd Gary, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Data Science
Meharry Medical College
Vibhuti Gupta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Data Science
Meharry Medical College
Nabaweesi Rosemary, Ph.D.
RWJF Endowed Chair for Health Policy
Meharry Medical College
Nadine Shillingford, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Computer Science and Data Science
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Data Science
Meharry Medical College
T. L. Wallace, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomedical Data Science
Meharry Medical College
External
Dr. Sourav Banerjee
Assistant Professor
Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, WB, India
Dr. Raja Datta
Professor
IIT Kharagpur, India
Dr. Aniruddha Gokhale
Professor
Vanderbilt University
Dr. Akram Hakiri
Associate Professor
University of Carthage, Tunisia
Dr. Syed Rafay Hasan
Associate Professor
Tennessee Tech University
Dr. Danda B Rawat
Professor
Howard University
Dr. Joel Rodrigues,
Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology
China University of Petroleum
Dr. Tamara Rogers
Professor
Tennessee State University
Dr. Pradip K Sharma
Assistant Professor
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Dr. Sachin Shetty
Professor
Old Dominion University
Dr. Gautam Srivastava
Associate Professor
Brandon University, CA
Dr. Deepak Tosh
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at El Paso