Meet Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor Nirnimesh Ghose!
This is Ghose’s first semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to coming to Nebraska, he received his Ph.D. in the Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 2019. He received his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2012 and his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology & Management affiliated to the Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India in 2010. He also worked as an application developer for Fidelity Investments before deciding to enter academia.
Ghose’s research focuses on network security and privacy with applications to emerging wireless networks, cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-things, aviation and transportation networks, and the interaction between cybersecurity and social networks.
Currently, he’s continuing to conduct research on a project he began while at Arizona that focuses on device compromise.
“The main idea is that our cell phones and smart devices are connected to multiple domains—your car, your home, your work. It becomes difficult for a system to automatically detect attacks, and adversaries can get access to a plethora of sensitive information,” Ghose said. “What we’re trying to do is figure out a way to detect these kind of attacks and become able to differentiate between a legitimate device and an adversarial device, so the adversarial device can be logged out from the network and the legitimate renews its credentials and continues access without going through the cumbersome process.”
Ghose is currently teaching 496/896: Special Topics: Mobile and Wireless Security. Next semester he’ll be teaching a wireless communications course. He’s also seeking students interested in similar fields to work in his lab.
Ghose’s wife, Jayna, is from Omaha and currently studying nursing at the university. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking.
“I’m from the northern part of India and I never tend to find any good North Indian restaurants, but I still love to eat the food. I find cooking and cleaning to be destressing! My life revolves around good food.”