Diksha Shukla

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Wyoming, Laramie

Email: d + lastname [AT] uwyo.edu
Office: EERB 422A

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About Me

I am interested in the security and privacy of smart connected devices and trustworthiness of digital communications. Specific research interests include machine learning, cybersecurity, computer vision, and natural language processing. My research spans applications of these areas to wearable devices, biometrics, attack-averse authentication, and side channel attack formulation. My group is currently focusing on the following directions:

• Information Leaks through Side Channels
• Zero-Trust Authentication System for Mixed Realty Systems
• Brain Signals as Biometrics
• Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning

My research group, Secure Sensing and Learning (SSL) Research Lab , is affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab) at the University of Wyoming. Before joining UWyo in Fall 2019, I completed my Ph.D. from Syracuse University, EECS in 2019. Prior to that, I received my M.S. in Mathematics from Louisiana Tech University in 2014, and M.S. in Computer Applications from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India in 2011.

Note to current UWyo students:

I am looking for motivated students to join my research group. If you would like to join our group, please send me an email to determine research opportunities, or to schedule a visit.

Note to prospective students:

I am looking for motivated graduate students to join my research group. If you would like to join our group, please apply to University of Wyoming, Computer Science program, and write my name in the list of faculty that you are interested in working with. I will make sure to review your application. I apologize in advance for not being able to respond to your email inquiries.

Recent News

• March 2024: Paper with my students got accepted to be presented at IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) Conference. Congratulations, Sindhu and Paul! Paper Title: 'HM-Auth: Redefining User Authentication in Immersive Virtual World through Hand Movement Signatures'. More details will follow soon.
  


• February 2024: Undergraduate researcher, Zachary Renz, joins the research group. Zach will be exploring potential of handsahke signatures with virtual agents in the extended reality environment for identity science. Welcome, Zach!
  


• January 2024: Undergraduate researcher, Kyle Lofthus, joins the research group. Kyle will be working on brain behavior (EEG signals) analysis for user identity verification and modeling. Welcome, Kyle!
  


• September 2023: We are starting an EECS Colloquium Series in the department. See further details and the scheduled talks here: EECS-Colloquium Series.
  


• August 2023: New Ph.D. Student, Soudabeh Bolouri, joins the research group. Welcome, Soudabeh!
  


• July 2023: My PhD student, Sindhu Reddy, and I will be attending USENIX Security Conference at Anaheim, CA August 9-11. Sindhu will be presenting her work on the attack model on virtual reality. Congratulations, Sindhu!
  


• February 2023: Paper with my student got accepted to be presented at USENIX Security Conference. Congratulations, Sindhu! See full paper here: Hidden Reality Attack Model.
  


• August 2022: Two new Ph.D. Students, Mohamad Zamini, and Iqbal Khatoon, join the research group. Welcome, Mohamad and Iqbal!
  


• July 2022: Undergraduate researcher, Jacob Bahr, joins the research group. Jacob will be working on exploring users' brain response (EEG) for various visual stimuli. Welcome, Jacob!
  


• May 2022: Jacab Hendricks, graduated with BS in CS and a minor in Mathematics degrees. He will join graduate program at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Fall. Congratulations, Jake!
  


• January 2022: New Ph.D. Student, Paul Sansah, joins the research group. Welcome, Paul!
  


• July 2021: Undergraduate researcher, Jacob Hendricks, joins the research group. Zach will be exploring graph neural networks for online fake information detection and tracking. Welcome, Jake!
  


• June 2021: Two papers with my student got accepted at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IEEE IJCB). Congratulations, Sindhu!
  


• January 2021: Paper got accepted at EuroSnP Conference. See full paper here: Second Factor Authentication Model.
  


• April 2020: Paper got accepted for publication at the ACM journal on Digital Threats: Research and Practice. See deatils here: Thinking Unveiled!
  


• January 2020: My first Ph.D. Student, Sindhu Reddy Kalathur Gopal, joins the research group. Welcome, Sindhu! Looking forward to working with you.
  


• August 2019: Joined Computer Science Department at the University of Wyoming as an Assistant Professor.