Dr. Swastik Brahma

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Dr. Brahma

Department of Computer Science
Tennessee State University
3500 John A Merritt Blvd
Nashville, TN 37209

Office : McCord Hall 005H (Main Campus)
Email : sbrahma[at]tnstate[dot]edu
Phone : (615) 963-5852
Homepage : TBD

Areas of Interest
Communication Systems and Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems and Sensor Networks, Cyber-security, Internet of Things, Crowd and Cloud-based Inference Networks, Game Theory and Network Economics.

Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, August 2011
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Dissertation: "Spectrum Sharing and Service Pricing in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks"
Master of Science in Computer Science, May 2008
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering, July 2005
West Bengal University of Technology, Calcutta, India

Biographical Sketch
Received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, as a Research Associate from 2011-2013, as a Research Scientist from 2014-2016, and as a Research Assistant Professor in 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee State University. His research interests include communication systems and networks, cyber-physical systems, cyber-security, and game theory. He serves as a technical program committee member for several conferences. Dr. Brahma won the best paper award in the IEEE Globecom conference in 2008, and was the recipient of the best Ph.D. forum award in the IEEE WoWMoM conference in 2009..

Teaching Interests
Undergraduate and graduate courses including Computer Networks, Game Theory, and Mobile Application Development (iOS).

Grants

Co-Principal Investigator, "A Framework to Implement the Cyber Survive and Recover Simulator (CSRS) Demo", US Air Force Research Laboratory, Amount $78,261, 5/1/2014 - 9/30/2014.
Senior Investigator, "Fusion of Statistically Dependent Heterogeneous Information Sources", Department of the Army, Amount $272,890, 7/1/2014 - 7/16/2016.
Senior Investigator, "Cyber-Domain Spectrum Exploitation (CyberSE)", ANDRO Computational Solutions, LLC, Amount $60,000, 1/25/16 - 12/10/17.
Senior Personnel, "Management of Mobile Phone Sensing via Sparse Learning", National Science, Foundation (NSF), $400,000, 9/1/2016 - 8/31/2019.

Selected Publications
Selected Journal Papers

Bhavya Kailkhura, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Data Falsification Attacks on Consensus-based Detection Systems," IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 145-158, March 2017
V. Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Optimal Spectrum Auction Design with 2-D Truthful Revelations under Uncertain Spectrum Availability," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 420-433, Feb. 2017.
Raghed El-Bardan, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Strategic Power Allocation with Incomplete Information in the Presence of a Jammer," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 3467-3479, Aug. 2016.
Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, "Spectrum Bargaining: A Model for Competitive Sharing of Unlicensed Radio Spectrum," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 257-272, Sept. 2015.
Nianxia Cao, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Target Tracking via Crowdsourcing: A Mechanism Design Approach," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 1464-1476, March 15, 2015.
Bhavya Kailkhura, Swastik Brahma, Yunghsiang S. Han, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Distributed Detection in Tree Topologies with Byzantines," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 3208-3219, June 15, 2014.
Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee, Kevin Kwiat, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Traffic Management in Wireless Sensor Networks: Decoupling Congestion Control and Fairness," Elsevier, Journal of Computer Communications, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 670-681, March 2012.

Selected Conference Papers

V. Sriram Siddhardh (Sid) Nadendla, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Towards the Design of Prospect-Theory based Human Decision Rules for Hypothesis Testing," 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 766-773, 2016.
Nianxia Cao, Yanzhi Wang, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Charging State
Aware Optimal Auction Design for Sensor Selection in Crowdsourcing Based Sensor Networks," 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 626-633, 2016.
Nianxia Cao, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Portfolio Theory based Sensor Selection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Unreliable Observations," 50th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 454-459, 2016.
Raghed El-Bardan, Walid Saad, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Matching Theory for Cognitive Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks," 50th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 466-471, 2016.
Nianxia Cao, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, "Towards Cloud Sensing Enabled Target Localization," 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), pp. 537-544, 2014.
Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, "A Bayesian based Incentive-Compatible Routing Mechanism for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks," IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 2781-2785, 2012.
Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee, and Kevin Kwiat, "Congestion Control and Fairness in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), pp. 413-418, 2010.
Shamik Sengupta, Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Swastik Brahma, and Mainak Chatterjee, "A game theoretic framework for distributed self-coexistence among IEEE 802.22 networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, 2008 (Best Paper Award).

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