The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Smriti Bhatt

 Smriti Bhatt

Title

Assistant Professor 

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX (2018)
Masters in Computer Science The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX (2017)
Bachelors in Computer Engineering, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal (2011) 

Notable Awards

Trusted CI Fellow 2020, The NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. (https://www.trustedci.org/2020-fellows)

 

Biography

Dr. Smriti Bhatt is an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. She has received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio and did her doctoral research at the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) and NSF CREST Center for Security and Privacy Enhanced Cloud Computing (C-SPECC). Dr. Bhatt's research focuses on security and privacy in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) leveraging Cloud and Edge Computing. Her research interests also include the application of AI and Machine Learning to secure IoT and CPS infrastructures in various application domains, such as Smart Health, Smart Home, and Wearable IoT. Some of her current research work includes access control models, secure data communication, and anomaly detection for different domains in Cloud-Enabled IoT. She has several conference and journal publications, and also continually serves as an expert reviewer for various journals and technical program committees for several conferences and workshops.