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The 21^st Century Research Leadership Chair
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Office: JBHT 529
Phone: 479-575-6416
Fax: 479-575-5339
Email: qinghual AT uark.edu

I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at the University of Arkansas, and hold the 21^st Century Research Leadership Chair. In 2015-2022, I served as the Associate Director for Research of the Cybersecurity Center for Secure, Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS). Currently, I am serving as the Site Director of the University of Arkansas site for the NSF I/UCRC Center for Infrastructure Trustworthiness in Energy Systems (CITES). I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2013, M.S. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 2007, and B.E. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2004. I was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2018. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE.

My research interests include cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, and cloud computing.

• Ph.D. Students: Yatish Dubasi, Carter Buckner, Marie Louise Uwibambi, Diwash Pokharel, Sudeep Panta, William Burroughs, Arpan Poudel, Md Taef Uddin Nadim, Tamanna Nazmin, S. M. Monzurul Hoque Chowdhury
• M.S. Students (thesis): Fabiha Neaz, Akanksha Tyagi, Rithyka Heng, Sunanda Das, Ramiro Gonzalez
• M.S. Students (non-thesis): Waeland Sky Elder

• Ph.D.: Kylie McClanahan (Spring 2025), Philip Huff (Summer 2021), Wei Bao (Summer 2021), Fengli Zhang (Fall 2019), Ang Li (Summer 2018)
• M.S. (Thesis Option): Nidhi Gupta (Summer 2025), Md Taef Uddin Nadim (Summer 2025), Tamanna Nazmin (Summer 2025), William Burroughs (Fall 2023), Dakota Dale (Spring 2023), Lewis Brown (Fall 2022), Phillip Boudreau (Summer 2022), David Darling (Summer 2021), Michael Mahler (Spring 2018), Amin Nugroho (Spring 2016)
• M.S. (Non-thesis Option): Khoi Hoang (Spring 2025), Yaling Liu (Fall 2024), Anh Bui (Spring 2024), Jacob Smith (Spring 2024), Josh Thornburgh (Spring 2024), Calvin Franz (Spring 2023), Timothy Dai (Spring 2022), Lobsang Wangmo (Spring 2019), Vigneshwar Raghuram (Fall 2015), Dong Truong (Spring 2015)
• Honors Thesis: Waeland Sky Elder (Spring 2024), Rithyka Heng (Spring 2024), Cassidy Khounborine (Spring 2023), Gideon Sutterfield (Spring 2023), Yatish Dubasi (Spring 2021), Ange-Thierry Ishimwe (Spring 2020), Olivia Degner (Spring 2019), Erich-Matthew Pulfer (Spring 2019), David Darling (Fall 2018), Adam Bliss (Fall 2018), Chase Ross (Fall 2014)

My research has been supported by NSF (SaTC, IUCRC, EPSCoR, I-Corps, SFS), DOE (CEDS, CESER, SETO), DOC-NIST, DoEd, and University of Arkansas. Thank their support.

• My Google Scholar profile.