Dhananjay   S.   Phatak

Associate Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250

Office: 319 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building
Phone: (410) 455-3624
Fax: (410) 455-3969
Email: phatak@umbc.edu

• Research

• Current Research Interests and Activities (My "Eigenvalues" currently span the following areas)
  • Cyber Security     a wide range of topics in security at-large including Computer/Network/System security, information assurance, security of hardware and designing hardware architectures for enhancing security, software security, malware, Virtualization and its impact on security and Digital Rights Management(DRM), Trust, security of Distributed Systems (DDoS attacks, defenses ....)
    
    On-going and recent-past Projects (a small sampling. also see the "Publications" and "Patents" links below)
    
    • "SMartER" Power Grid
    • The Spread Identity (SI) Paradigm   for the Internet and Beyond
    • Oblivious Data Processing for security in Cloud Computing.
    • Virtualization (DRM, s/w licensing, security attributes of and mechanisms for virtual machines ....)
  • Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, Architectures, and their VLSI Implementations
  • Number Theory, Cryptology, efficient realization of cryptographic primitives
  
  
  
  
• Past Research areas
• Mobile and High Performance Computing and Networks
• Neural Networks: Theory, Applications and Implementations



• Funding Grants


• Publications
  
  
• Software/Tools
  

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• $$$ (is) >> GOD



• But; it depends on what the meaning of   "is"   is.
  (arguably the most hil(l)ar[i|y]-ous and memorable quote of the decade of the 1990s...)



• Quiz : What is the second oldest profession?



• Folk Theorem : Earnings are inversely proportional to knowledge
  hint: use the folk-adages/identities (time = money) and (knowledge = power) and
  the real physical relation/fact (power = work/time)



• Claim : Creator of life was extremely angry while creating life.
  Proof : The code book of life is written in the "4 letter" alphabet; {"A", "C", "T", "G"}




• Graduate school = wider perspective that includes Adviser along with Budweisers.
  
  
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• You know that I know what you know   (Richard Feynman-esque...).

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