Maanak Gupta
About
Maanak Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tennessee Tech University where he is director of the Applied and Basic Cyber Security (ABCyS) laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), under the supervision of Prof. Ravi Sandhu in December 2018, and has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Cyber Security, UTSA. He is also an associated faculty with the CEROC: Cybersecurity Education, Research & Outreach Center at Tennessee Tech. His primary area of research includes security and privacy in cyber space. In particular, he is interested in studying scientific foundational aspects of access control and their applications in real world 21st century technologies including cyber physical systems, precision agriculture, smart cars, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and Big Data. He is also interested in AI and machine learning driven security solutions including malware analysis and classification for Cloud IaaS. His scholarly work is regularly published at top peer-reviewed security venues including ACM SIGSAC conferences and refereed journals. He was awarded the 2019 computer science outstanding doctoral dissertation research award from UT San Antonio. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, US Department of Defense (DoD) and private industry. He holds an MS in Information Systems from Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Effect of a keto-steroid of Commifora mukul L. on hypercholesterolemia & hyperlipidemia induced by neomercazole & cholesterol mixture in chicks
Year: 1975
Citations: 11
Venue: N/A
Latest Recorded Paper
A Survey of Agentic AI and Cybersecurity: Challenges, Opportunities and Use-case Prototypes
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2601.05293
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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