Abhijit Kumar Nag Profile

Dr. Abhijit Kumar Nag is a tenured associate professor in the Subhani Department of Computer Information Systems at Texas A&M University-Central Texas since Fall 2023. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Memphis. Previously, he received his master's in computer engineering from the University of Memphis. His primary research interest includes various authentication approaches, mainly continuous authentication and multi-factor authentication systems. His other research interests include evolutionary algorithms, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, bio-inspired/nature-inspired computing, and big data. He is an inventor of two issued utility patents based on an Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication system. He is a co-author of a graduate-level textbook- Advances in User Authentication. Dr. Nag is a reviewer for many reputable peer-reviewed journals, conferences, presentations, and textbooks. Dr. Nag provided a tutorial talk on Computational Intelligence in User Identity Management at the IEEE SSCI conference. He received a TEES grant as a lead PI for the project titled "Powering up: Cybersecurity Education for a Dispersed Workforce." He also received another TEES grant as a Co-PI for the "A Deep-Defense Approach for Next-Gen Cyber-Resilient Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems" project. He is currently the representative of Texas A&M University-Central Texas to the semiconductor research for the Texas A&M System collaboration.

  Areas of professional expertise: Cybersecurity, big data, semiconductor design, high-performance computing (HPC), evolutionary computation, multi-objective and multi-criteria optimization, online cybersecurity education, and workforce development.

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