Rate My Professor Sanjay Madria

Sanjay Madria is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1995, an M.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the same institution in 1987, and a B.S. from the University of Delhi in 1985. He previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette. As director of the Wireless & Cloud Computing Laboratory at Missouri S&T, he has mentored 45 students, including 12 Ph.D. graduates. Madria has held leadership roles in conferences, including general co-chair of Mobile Data Management in 2010, PC co-chair of MDM 2015, and steering committee member for IEEE SRDS and IEEE MDM.

His research focuses on mobile computing, wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, security, and cybersecurity in smart systems, with applications in secure sensor clouds, risk assessment, disaster response data management, and cyber-physical systems. He has authored over 270 journal and conference papers, including books "Secure Sensor Cloud" (Morgan & Claypool, 2018) and "Web Data Management: A Warehouse Approach" (Springer, 2004). Key publications include "Risk Assessment in a Sensor Cloud Framework Using Attack Trees" (IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 2016), "Distributed Attribute Based Access Control of Aggregated Data in Sensor Clouds" (IEEE SRDS 2015, Best Paper Award), and "Security and Risk Assessment in the Cloud" (IEEE Computer, 2016). Madria has secured funding from NSF, DOE, NIST, AFRL, ARO, ORNL, and industry partners like Boeing and Honeywell for projects on secure cloud computing, machine learning for resilient information management, and underground mine safety. His honors include ACM Distinguished Scientist, IEEE Senior Member and Golden Core Awardee, five IEEE best paper awards (including MDM 2011, 2012, SRDS 2015), six university faculty excellence awards (2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), JSPS Invitational Fellowship (2006), AFRL Visiting Faculty Fellowship (2008-2018), and NRC Fellowships (2012-2013, 2018-2019).