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Active Projects

  1. Data Privacy management using Policy compliant Blockchain structures

Past Projects

  1. Policy Compliant Integration of Linked Data
  2. Secure and Oblivious Cloud Storage and Deletion
  3. Security in Mobile Databases
  4. Semantic Discovery: Discovering Complex Relationships in Semantic Web
  5. Vigil / Secure Centaurus

Publications

2025

  1. O. Clark and K. P. Joshi, "Real-Time Detection of Online Health Misinformation using an Integrated Knowledgegraph-LLM Approach", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) , 2025 at IEEE World Congress on Services 2025, July 2025, 699 downloads.

2024

  1. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Leveraging semantic context to establish access controls for secure cloud-based electronic health records", Article, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, April 2024, 1137 downloads.
  2. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and L. Elluri, "Secure and Privacy-Compliant Data Sharing: An Essential Framework for Healthcare Organizations", 10th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing ICMC 2024, January 2024, 671 downloads.

2023

  1. A. Kotal, L. Elluri, D. Gupta, V. Mandalapu, and A. Joshi, "Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Agriculture: Enforcing Policy Rules for Secure and Confidential Data Synthesis", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), December 2023, 1990 downloads.
  2. K. Echenim, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Ensuring Privacy Policy Compliance of Wearables with IoT Regulations", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS 2023), November 2023, 768 downloads.
  3. N. Das, A. Kotal, D. Roseberry, and A. Joshi, "Change Management using Generative Modeling on Digital Twins", InProceedings, International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), October 2023, 541 downloads.
  4. A. Kotal, N. Das, and A. Joshi, "Knowledge Infusion in Privacy Preserving Data Generation", InProceedings, KDD Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning, 29TH ACM SIGKDD,, August 2023, 489 downloads.
  5. J. Clavin and K. P. Joshi, "Policy Integrated Blockchain to Automate HIPAA Part 2 Compliance", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2023 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2023, July 2023, 746 downloads.
  6. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Semantically Rich Differential Access to Secure Cloud EHR", InProceedings, 9th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2023), May 2023, 667 downloads.

2022

  1. S. Dixit, K. P. Joshi, S. Choi, and L. Elluri, "Semantically Rich Access Control in Cloud EHR Systems Based on MA-ABE", InProceedings, 8th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2022), May 2022, 777 downloads.
  2. A. Kotal, A. Piplai, S. Chukkapalli, and A. Joshi, "PriveTAB : Secure and Privacy-Preserving sharing of Tabular Data", InProceedings, ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, April 2022, 635 downloads.
  3. S. Chukkapalli, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and R. F. Erbacher, "CAPD: A Context-Aware, Policy-Driven Framework for Secure and Resilient IoBT Operations", InProceedings, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications IV, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, April 2022, 553 downloads.

2021

  1. P. Schubel, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "A Semantic Framework for Secure and Efficient Contact Tracing of Infectious Diseases", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2021, December 2021, 536 downloads.
  2. M. P. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption", Article, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, November 2021, 2395 downloads.
  3. R. Walid, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Secure Cloud EHR with Semantic Access Control, Searchable Encryption and Attribute Revocation", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021, September 2021, 968 downloads.
  4. M. P. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption", InProceedings, IEEE World Congress on Services, September 2021, 563 downloads.
  5. L. Elluri, A. Piplai, A. Kotal, A. Joshi, and K. P. Joshi, "A Policy-Driven Approach to Secure Extraction of COVID-19 Data From Research Papers", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, doi: 10.3389/fdata.2021.701966, August 2021, 590 downloads.
  6. A. Nagar, L. Elluri, and K. P. Joshi, "Automated Compliance of Mobile Wallet Payments for Cloud Services", InProceedings, 7th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021), May 2021, 704 downloads.

2020

  1. J. Clavin, V. P. Janeja, K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, S. Duan, H. Zhang, L. Erickson, and J. D. Li, "Blockchains for Government: Use Cases and Challenges", Article, Digital Government: Research and Practice, November 2020, 2283 downloads.
  2. S. Oni, Z. Chen, A. Crainiceanu, K. P. Joshi, and D. Needham, "A Framework for Situation-Aware Access Control in Federated Data-as-a-Service Systems Based on Query Rewriting", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC), 2020, October 2020, 656 downloads.
  3. A. Mahindrakar and K. P. Joshi, "Automating GDPR Compliance using Policy Integrated Blockchain", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), May 2020, 1729 downloads.
  4. S. Chukkapalli, A. Piplai, S. Mittal, M. Gupta, and A. Joshi, "A Smart-Farming Ontology for Attribute Based Access Control", InProceedings, 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020), March 2020, 1137 downloads.

2019

  1. S. Dixit, K. P. Joshi, and S. Choi, "Multi Authority Access Control in a Cloud EHR System with MA-ABE", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2019), July 2019, 1005 downloads.
  2. K. P. Joshi and A. Banerjee, "Automating Privacy Compliance Using Policy Integrated Blockchain", Article, Cryptography, Special Issue Advances of Blockchain Technology and Its Applications, February 2019, 1396 downloads.

2018

  1. S. N. Narayanan, K. Khanna, B. K. Panigrahi, and A. Joshi, "Security in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: A Case Study on Smart Grids and Smart Cars", InBook, Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy, December 2018, 1167 downloads.
  2. M. P. Joshi, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Attribute Based Encryption for Secure Access to Cloud Based EHR Systems", InProceedings, International Conference on Cloud Computing, July 2018, 2440 downloads.
  3. A. Padia, A. Roy, T. W. Satyapanich, F. Ferraro, S. Pan, Y. Park, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "UMBC at SemEval-2018 Task 8: Understanding Text about Malware", InProceedings, Proceedings of International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2018), June 2018, 1248 downloads.

2017

  1. K. Khanna and A. Joshi, "AI based approach to identify compromised meters in data integrity attacks on smart grid", Article, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, October 2017, 1133 downloads.
  2. M. P. Joshi, S. Mittal, K. P. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantically Rich, Oblivious Access Control Using ABAC for Secure Cloud Storage", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing, June 2017, 1938 downloads.
  3. K. Chopra, R. Bose, and A. Joshi, "Secure Power Trading in Cooperative Relay Network With Asymmetric Cournot Duopoly Model", InProceedings, 12th Annual Symposium On Information Assurance (ASIA’17), May 2017, 1046 downloads.

2016

  1. K. Khanna, R. Bose, and A. Joshi, "On Detecting False Data Injection with Limited Network Information using Statistical Techniques", InProceedings, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Chicago, 2017, November 2016, 1066 downloads.
  2. K. Khanna, B. K. Panigrahi, and A. Joshi, "Data Integrity Attack in Smart Grid: Optimized Attack to Gain Monetary Economic Profit", Article, IET Transactions on Generation, Transmission and Distribution, September 2016, 1701 downloads.
  3. S. Mittal, P. K. Das, V. Mulwad, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "CyberTwitter: Using Twitter to generate alerts for Cybersecurity Threats and Vulnerabilities", InProceedings, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 2016, 4491 downloads.
  4. V. Narkhede, K. P. Joshi, T. Finin, S. Choi, A. Aviv, and D. S. Roche, "Managing Cloud Storage Obliviously", InProceedings, International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2016, 1916 downloads.
  5. S. N. Narayanan, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "OBD SecureAlert: An Anomaly Detection System for Vehicles", InProceedings, IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 2016, 1938 downloads.
  6. D. S. Roche, A. Aviv, and S. Choi, "A Practical Oblivious Map Data Structure with Secure Deletion and History Independence.", InProceedings, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2016, 1557 downloads.
  7. K. Chopra, R. Bose, and A. Joshi, "Duopoly Models for Power Trading in Secure Cooperative Relay Networks", InProceedings, IEEE National Conference on Communications (NCC 2016), February 2016, 1237 downloads.

2015

  1. S. N. Narayanan, S. Mittal, and A. Joshi, "Using Data Analytics to Detect Anomalous States in Vehicles", TechReport, December 2015, 1932 downloads.
  2. A. Hendre and K. P. Joshi, "A Semantic Approach to Cloud Security and Compliance", InProceedings, 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), June 2015, 1562 downloads.

2013

  1. R. Lal, "Information Extraction of Security related entities and concepts from unstructured text.", MastersThesis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May 2013, 2542 downloads.

2012

  1. W. Li, P. A. Kodeswaran, P. Jagtap, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Managing and Securing Critical Infrastructure - A Semantic Policy and Trust Driven Approach", InBook, Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges, January 2012, 1896 downloads.

2011

  1. A. Mahale, "Group Centric Information Sharing using Hierarchical Models", MastersThesis, UMBC, May 2011, 1781 downloads.
  2. P. A. Kodeswaran, S. B. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks", Article, Computer Standards and Interfaces, January 2011, 2193 downloads, 1 citation.

2010

  1. P. A. Kodeswaran, F. Perich, W. Li, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing Secure and Robust Routing with Declarative Policies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2010 Military Communications Conference, October 2010, 2138 downloads, 1 citation.
  2. P. A. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and F. Perich, "A Declarative Approach for Secure and Robust Routing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration , October 2010, 2506 downloads.

2008

  1. S. Gupta, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "A Framework for Secure Knowledge Management in Pervasive Computing", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management, November 2008, 2534 downloads.
  2. J. Martineau and P. A. Kodeswaran, "SecurePass: Guarding sensitive information from untrusted machines", TechReport, September 2008, 1998 downloads.
  3. P. A. Kodeswaran, S. B. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, Secure Semantic Web, April 2008, 2734 downloads.

2007

  1. S. B. Kodeswaran, P. A. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, and F. Perich, "Utilizing Semantic Policies for Secure BGP Route Dissemination", TechReport, September 2007, 2697 downloads.
  2. A. Patwardhan, J. Parker, M. Iorga, A. Joshi, T. Karygiannis, and Y. Yesha, "Threshold-based Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks and Secure AODV", Article, Ad Hoc Networks Journal (ADHOCNET), May 2007, 3528 downloads, 16 citations.

2005

  1. S. Avancha, "A Holistic Approach to Secure Sensor Networks", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 2005, 3586 downloads.
  2. A. Patwardhan, J. Parker, A. Joshi, M. Iorga, and T. Karygiannis, "Secure Routing and Intrusion Detection in Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, March 2005, 7744 downloads, 96 citations.

2004

  1. D. Khushraj, O. Lassila, and T. Finin, "sTuples: Semantic Tuple Spaces", InProceedings, First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous’04), August 2004, 3520 downloads, 73 citations.
  2. A. B. Shah, L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy Development Software for Security Policies", InProceedings, DIAMACS Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security Software, July 2004, 255 downloads.

2003

  1. S. Avancha, J. Undercoffer, A. Joshi, and J. Pinkston, "Secure Sensor Networks for Perimeter Protection", Article, Computer Networks, November 2003, 3881 downloads, 30 citations.
  2. J. Undercoffer, F. Perich, A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", Article, ACM Monet: Special Issue on Security in Mobile Computing Environments, October 2003, 4757 downloads, 44 citations.
  3. D. Khushraj, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination Infrastructure in Mobile Environments", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference , September 2003, 3 citations.
  4. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Policy Language for A Pervasive Computing Environment", InCollection, IEEE 4th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, June 2003, 5254 downloads, 341 citations.
  5. S. Avancha, P. D'Souza, F. Perich, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "P2P M-Commerce in Pervasive Environments", Article, ACM SIGecom Exchanges, January 2003, 5293 downloads, 16 citations.

2002

  1. F. Perich and C. Nicholas, "SHOMAR: An Open Architecture for Distributed Intrusion Detection Services", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, September 2002, 5990 downloads.
  2. L. Kagal, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Developing Secure Agent Systems Using Delegation Based Trust Management", InProceedings, Security of Mobile Multi-Agent Systems Workshop, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2002) , July 2002, 5702 downloads, 38 citations.
  3. A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Me-Services: A Framework for Secure & Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, International Workshop on Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web, May 2002, 1051 downloads.
  4. A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "Me-Services: A Framework for Secure and Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Web Services, E-Business, and the Semantic Web Workshop, May 2002, 281 downloads.
  5. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Issues in Data Management for Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, NSF Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Database Management, January 2002, 4493 downloads, 2 citations.

2001

  1. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, L. Kagal, F. Perich, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, "An Integrated Architecture for Secure Information Discovery, Composition and Management in Pervasive Environments", TechReport, UMBC, December 2001, 317 downloads.
  2. A. Cedilnik, L. Kagal, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2001, 4684 downloads.

1998

  1. M. A. Rabi, T. Finin, A. Sherman, and Y. K. Labrou, "Secure Knowledge Query Manipulation Language: a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", TechReport, UMBC, November 1998, 271 downloads.
  2. A. Joshi and V. Subramanyam, "Security in Mobile Systems", InProceedings, Workshop on Security in Large Scale Distributed Systems, IEEE SRDS, October 1998, 276 downloads, 6 citations.
  3. M. A. Rabi, "Relationships among security and algebraic properties of cryptographic objects, and a security infrastructure for agent communication languages", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 1998, 573 downloads.
  4. Q. He, K. Sycara, and T. Finin, "Personal Security Agent: KQML-based PKI", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1998, 2579 downloads, 49 citations.

Presentation

  1. A Holistic Approach to Secure Sensor Networks

Poster

  1. Collaborative Research: EAGER SaTC-EDU: AI and Cybersecurity: from Research to the Classroom
  2. SEMDIS: Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web

Ontology

  1. Oblivious Cloud Storage Ontology

Source Code

  1. Source code for MANET IDS

Old News

  1. From 'Need to Know’ to ‘Need to Share’:
    April 30, 2008
  2. UMBC and IBM collaborate on autonomic computing
    February 24, 2005
  3. UMBC Participates in CNSF's 9th Annual Capitol Hill Science Exhibition
    June 19, 2003

Old Events

  1. Information Extraction of Security related entities and concepts from unstructured text
    April 1, 2013
  2. Information Extraction of Security related entities, concepts and relations from unstructured text
    October 22, 2012
  3. Masters Thesis Research Update - Anurag, Dibjyajyoti and Sumit
    December 6, 2011
  4. Masters Thesis Research Proposal: Dibyajyoti Ghosh and Sumit More
    October 4, 2011
  5. A Security Framework to Cope With Node Misbehaviors in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    June 14, 2011
  6. Group Centric Information Sharing using Hierarchical Models
    May 10, 2011
  7. A Holistic Framework for Securing Wireless Networks and Cyber Physical Systems
    March 8, 2011
  8. Group Centric Information Sharing Model for Social Networks
    September 28, 2010
  9. Privacy Preserving Distributed Data Mining: A Multi-objective Optimization and Algorithmic Game-theoretic Approach
    September 16, 2009
  10. Emergency Management: Some Related Research Challenges
    November 11, 2008