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Dr. Pradhumna L. Shrestha

Clinical Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

(940) 369-7167

Email: Pradhumna.Shrestha@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2014
    Major: Engineering
    Specialization: Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering
    Dissertation: 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: A Quantitative Performance Analysis of 2.5 GHZ and 3.65 GHZ Mobile Wimax

Development Activities

  • Continuing Education Program, IBM AI Engineering Specialization, Self. LinkedIn,LinkedIn,United States of America. (April 12, 2020).
  • Conference Attendance, Cultivating Human Connections in the Classroom of Tomorrow, N/A. United States of America. (June 21, 2024 - June 21, 2024).
  • Workshop, Designing a New Faculty Led Program Workshop, UNT. Denton,TX,United States of America. (March 29, 2024 - March 29, 2024).
  • Other (Paper Review), Research on Text Information Computing Based on Federated Computing, Self. NA,NA,United States of America. (January 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023).
  • Other (paper review), 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, 215 courses.
  • CSCE 1040 - Computer Science II, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 2610 - Assembly Language and Computer Organization, 12 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 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience, 1 course.
  • 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, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 4910 - Computer Engineering Design I, 8 courses.
  • CSCE 4915 - Computer Engineering Design II, 8 courses.
  • CSCE 4927 - Cybersecurity Capstone II, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5510 - Wireless Communication, 1 course.
  • CSCE 5550 - Introduction to Computer Security, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 5560 - Secure Electronic Commerce, 6 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).

Awards and Honors

  • Best Capstone CE Project, CSE Department. (May 2023).
  • Best Capstone CE Project, CSE Department. (May 2022).

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).

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).