Dr. Pradhumna L. Shrestha
University of North Texas
Computer Science and Engineering
(940) 369-7167
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Education

PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2014.
Major: Engineering
Degree Specialization: Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering
Dissertation Title: An Innovative Approach to Analyze and Detect a Broad Class of Timing-based Covert Communications
MS, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011.
Major: Telecommunications Engineering
Dissertation Title: A Quantitative Performance Analysis of 2.5 GHZ and 3.65 GHZ Mobile Wimax

Development Activities Attended

Continuing Education Program,"IBM AI Engineering Specialization," Self, LinkedIn, LinkedIn, United States of America. (April 12, 2020 – Present).

Workshop,"Designing a New Faculty Led Program Workshop," UNT, Denton, TX, United States of America. (March 29, 2024 – March 29, 2024).

Other,"Research on Text Information Computing Based on Federated Computing," Self, NA, NA, United States of America. (January 1, 2023 – March 31, 2023).

Other,"A Novel Low-Cost Wireless Footwear System for Monitoring Diabetic Foot Patients," Self, NA, NA, United States of America. (September 2020 – November 2020).

Conference Attendance,"SIGCSE 2018," CRA, Baltimore, MD, United States of America. (February 21, 2018 – February 21, 2018).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 1030, Computer Science I, 206 courses.
CSCE 1040, Computer Science II, 4 courses.
CSCE 2610, Assembly Language and Computer Organization, 6 courses.
CSCE 3010, Signals and Systems, 4 courses.
CSCE 3020, Communications Systems, 10 courses.
CSCE 3530, Introduction to Computer Networks, 3 courses.
CSCE 3550, Foundations of Cybersecurity, 3 courses.
CSCE 4510, Introduction to Wireless Communications, 1 course.
CSCE 4550, Introduction to Computer Security, 9 courses.
CSCE 4560, Secure Electronic Commerce, 1 course.
CSCE 4890, Directed Study, 1 course.
CSCE 4907, Cybersecurity Capstone I, 2 courses.
CSCE 4910, Computer Engineering Design I, 7 courses.
CSCE 4915, Computer Engineering Design II, 7 courses.
CSCE 4927, Cybersecurity Capstone II, 2 courses.
CSCE 5510, Wireless Communication, 1 course.
CSCE 5550, Introduction to Computer Security, 4 courses.
CSCE 5560, Secure Electronic Commerce, 7 courses.
CSCE 5580, Computer Networks, 1 course.
CSCE 5933, Topics in Computer Science and Engineering, 1 course.

Directed Student Learning

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 2020 – May 2020).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"BSM MESSAGE AND VIDEO STREAMING QUALITY COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS USING WAVE SHORT MESSAGE PROTOCOL (WSMP)," Computer Science and Engineering. (May 2019).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"NETWORKING OF UAVs USING 802.11s FOR FORMATION CONTROL," Computer Science and Engineering. (October 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"SMART AUSCULTATION AN ANDROID APPLICATION," Computer Science and Engineering. (May 2017).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding
Jonnada, S., Dantu, R., Shrestha, P. L., Ranasinghe, I., Widick, L. (2018). An OAuth-Based Authorization Framework for Access Control in Remote Collaboration Systems. 38-44. IEEE National Cybersecurity Summit.
Thiyagaraja, S., Dantu, R., Shrestha, P. L., Thompson, M. A., Smith, C. (2017). Optimized and Secured Transmission and Retrieval of Vital Signs from Remote Devices. Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on. 25--30.
Shrestha, P. (2017). Optimized and Secured Transmission and Retrieval of Vital Signs from Remote Devices. NA(NA), . NA: IEEE.
Shrestha, P. L. (2015). A Novel Analytical Model and its Test Bed Verification for Network Covert Timing Channels.
Shrestha, P. L. (2015). A Classification Tree-based System for Multi-Sensor Train Approach Detection.
Journal Article
Thiyagaraja, S., Dantu, R., Shrestha, P. L., Chitnis, A., Thompson, M. A., Anumandla, P., Sarma, T., Dantu, S. (2018). A novel heart-mobile interface for detection and classification of heart sounds. Other. 45, 313 - 324. Elsavier. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1746809418301101
Shrestha, P. (2016). An Event-Based Unified System Model to Characterize and Evaluate Timing Covert Channels. IEEE Systems Journal. 10(1), .
Shrestha, P. L. (2015). A Support Vector Machine-based Framework for Detection of Covert Timing Channels. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 13(2), .

Presentations Given

Paper

Shrestha, P. L. (Author & Presenter), 2020 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS), On-Road Performance Evaluation of IEEE 802.11p/WAVE in BSM Signalling and Video Streaming using WSMP, United States of America. (2020 – 2020).

Shrestha, P. (Author), IEEE Chase, Optimized and Secured Transmission and Retrieval of Vital Signs from Remote Devices, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America. (2017).

Awards and Honors

Best Capstone CE Project, CSE Department. (May 2023 – Present).

Best Capstone CE Project, CSE Department. (May 2022 – Present).

Service

University Service

Faculty Mentor, Faculty Mentor. (January 16, 2024 – Present).

Committee Member, External Awards Committee. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Intro Sequence Committee. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Program Coordinator, Peer Mentor Program. (January 16, 2023 – Present).

Member, Senior Design Committee. (August 24, 2020 – Present).

Member, CE Undergraduate Subcommittee. (January 16, 2020 – Present).

Member, SACS grad program data collection. (September 1, 2023 – December 1, 2023).

Chairperson, Clinical Faculty Search Commitee. (May 1, 2021 – August 30, 2021).

Chairperson, Clinical Faculty Search Commitee. (August 24, 2020 – May 31, 2021).

Member, Retention Committee. (August 27, 2018 – December 1, 2020).

Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee. (August 29, 2016 – May 10, 2019).