My research area is a mix of fundamental and applied aspects of cybersecurity. I serve as the Executive Director of the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) at UTSA.
I am currently interested in topics such as:
(1) Utilizing machine learning techniques for the purpose of cybersecurity such as: malware detection and automating access control and administration,
(2) Developing novel techniques for security and privacy enhanced machine learning,
(3) Automated cyber threat intelligence sharing and response, and
(4) Improving Android’s current permission model
See the projects that I work on below.
See my publications. Also, my Google Scholar Public Profile.
Research Projects
Current Projects:
- Administration of Next Generation Access Control
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Co-Principal Investigator: Anthony Rios (Former Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu)
Sponsor: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2023-2026
- CREST Center for Security and Privacy Enhanced Cloud Computing (C-SPECC)
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan, (Former Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu)
Co-Principal Investigators: Nicole Beebe, Guadalupe Carmona, Jeff Prevost
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, 2017-2025
- Machine Learning Based Access Control Applied to Insider Threat Mitigation
Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Co-Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Sponsor: Cisco Research, 2023-2024
- Cross-Layer Adaptive Access Controls for Resilient Systems
Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Co-Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation, 2023
Completed Projects:
- CAREER: Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing – Models, Properties, and Implementation
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, 2016-2022
- Towards Multi-Tenancy Security Capabilities for Applications in Cloud Platforms
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Key Personnel: Ravi Sandhu
Sponsor: U.S. Army Research Office, 2015-2019
- Attribute Based Access Control for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, 2014-2018
- Identity and Access Control in the Physical and Virtual Internet of Things
Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Co-Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Sponsor: The MITRE Corporation and The University of Maryland, 2016
- Design and Implementation of Cybersecurity Risk Metrics for Cloud Based IT Infrastructure
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Sponsor: LMI Research Institute, 2015-2016
- Enhancing Situational Awareness for Emergency Response Using Social Media Provenance
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Co-Principal Investigator: Jae Park
Sponsor: LMI Research Institute , 2014-2015
- Secure Information Sharing Models for Cyber Response Teams
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Sponsor: LMI Research Institute, 2013-2014
- Design of a Curriculum on Building Security Services in the Cloud
Principal Investigator: Ram Krishnan
Co-Principal Investigator: Ravi Sandhu
Sponsor: Intel Corporation, 2013-2014