Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Florida International University
M.S., Computer Engineering, Florida International University
B.E., Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University
About Tirthankar
Dr. Tirthankar Ghosh has over eighteen years of experience in cybersecurity education and research ranging from network anomaly in industrial control systems, autonomous vehicle security, network threat detection and mitigation, and adversary behavior analysis. Dr. Ghosh has received and managed multi-million dollars of grants from National Science Foundation, National Security Agency / Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, state governments, and private sectors, and has established several funded research labs on university campuses. Dr. Ghosh has experience working in the Minnesota and Florida higher education systems where he led several initiatives on research and education at the state and national levels. Dr. Ghosh was the co-founder of MN Cyber Careers Consortium and Greater St Cloud Cybersecurity Consortium at the state and local levels in the state of Minnesota. Dr. Ghosh has authored several publications, gave numerous invited talks and research presentations, and authored a book titled “Security by Practice: Exercises in Network Security and Information Assurance”. Dr. Ghosh is an ABET program evaluator for Cybersecurity and Computer Science. Dr. Ghosh has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s and PhD degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering.
Selected Publications
- Ghosh, T.; Bagui, S.; Bagui, S.; Kadzis, M.; Bare, J. (2023) Anomaly Detection for Modbus over TCP in Control Systems Using Entropy and Classification-Based Analysis. J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2023, 3, 895-913. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp3040041
- Bagui, S., Mink, D., Bagui, S., Ghosh, T., Plenkers, R., McElroy, T., Dulaney, S. & Shabanali, S. (2023) Introducing UWF-Zeek Data 22: A Comprehensive Raw Network Dataset Based on the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Future Internet, 8(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/data8010018. January 2023.
- Bagui, S., Mink, D., Bagui, S., Ghosh, T., McElroy, T., Esteban, P., Khasnavis, N., & Plenkers, R. (2022) Using Reconnaissance and Discovery Tactics from the MITRE ATT&CK Framework in Zeek Logs. Sensors 2022, 22, 7999. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22207999. October 2022.
Grants and Funded Projects
- NCAE Cybersecurity Curriculum Commission: A Strategic Approach to Building High-Quality, High-Impact Cybersecurity Curriculum for the Nation (PI) (with Towson University as lead), funded by National Security Agency, $199,186. October 2021-September 2024.
- Building a Sustainable Pathway for Future Cybersecurity Workforce Through Industry Collaboration, Apprenticeships, and Articulation (PI), funded by Cyber Florida/Florida Department of Education, $489,437, August 2022-August 2023.