Dhananjay S. Phatak
Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250
Office: 327 Information Technology and Engineering (ITE) Building
Phone: (410) 455-3624
Fax: (410) 455-3969
Email:
phatak@umbc.edu
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Research
- Current Research Interests and Activities are in
(in other words, 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)
- Computer Arithmetic Algorithms,
Architectures, and their VLSI Implementations
- Number Theory, Cryptology, efficient realization of cryptographic
primitives
- I'd like to think that I am intellectually curious. I therefore
investigate any problem that interests me...
(another way of saying
that I have an opinion on any/all subjects? ... just joking ...)
If you are curious to find out what my own unique
[un?|i]nformed-opinions/perspectives on vital issues
such as
"sustainable-energy/global-warming ..." etc.,
are; then please look at the following
links:
SMARTGREENS 2014
paper
and the accompanying
SMARTGREENS
2014 viewgraphs
- Past Research areas
- Funding Grants
- Publications
- Software/Tools
Teaching
(parts are always
under construction, like a perpetual motion machine !)
For more information on what the Erdös number
is all about, go to the
Erdös number project website
The last I checked; there is still no free lunch;
please consider contributing to Wikipedia
by
clicking the button ----->
Top Quotes (David Letterman style)
- $$$ (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...)
But concatenting "is" to "is" (or fooling around, wasting time in
the "is"es)
leads to the deadly lethal evil we now
know as "ISIS"
- 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
substitute (aka "plug-into")
the real physical identity (power = work/time)
- Claim : Creator of life was extremely angry
during the process of creation.
Proof : The entire code book of life is full of a
"4 letter" alphabet;
{ "A", "C", "T", "G" }
Note the warning implicit in the selection of the letters :
ACTG =
"ACT of the
Gods"
- Graduate school = wider perspective that includes Advisers along with
Budweisers.
- ... deliberately left blank, you can fill-in whatever you want
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You know that I know what you know
(Richard Feynman-esque...).
This quote is useful after the first exam. I explain to
the students
that the exam is really not needed; just based on their
interaction and behavior in class, I can figure out who
knows what.
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Last update: November, 2016