General Information

• Position: Assistant Professor
• E-mail: mrana15@lamar.edu
• Phone: 880-8595
• Room: 95

Education

• Ph.D. Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2017

Research Interests

• Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity
• Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
• Cyber Twins Modeling and Simulation
• IoT Network Security and Privacy
• Machine Learning for Attack-resilient and Secure Universal Defense

Selected Publications

M. Rana, IoT-based electric vehicle state estimation and control algorithms under cyber attacks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 874-881.

M. Rana, L. Li, S. W. Su, and W. Xiang, Concensus-based smart grid state estimation algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 3368-3375.

M. Rana, W. Shireen, and A. Abdelhadi, Monitoring operating conditions of wireless power transfer systems using distributed estimation process, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023.

M. Rana, A. Abdelhadi, R. Ahmed, and A. Ali, Secure IoT communication systems for prediction of COVID-19 outbreak: An optimal signal processing algorithm, IEEE International Conference on Smart Systems and Inventive Technology, 2022.