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College of Applied Science and Technology

Dr. Sumesh Philip

Associate Professor of Cybersecurity
Office
OU Old Union 203b
Office Phone
(309) 438-7070office
phone
Email
sjphil3@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Biography

I received my B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India, in 1997 and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Amherst, in 2003 and 2005 respectively. I have worked at Telcordia Technologies, Nokia Research, and Bell Laboratories, investigating issues related to wireless networks. I am currently an Associate Professor teaching courses in the Cybersecurity major at the School of Information Technology at Illinois State University. I was previously an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Sciences at Western Illinois University. My research interests lie in the intersection of Cybersecurity, AI/ML and the Internet Of Things (IoT) paradigm. I welcome collaborations from researchers in related areas and highly motivated graduate/undergraduate students.

Current Courses

IT 350.001 Operating Systems Concepts and Administration

IT 357.001 Tools And Techniques In Defensive Security

IT 357.002 Tools And Techniques In Defensive Security

PhD Computer Science and Engineering

State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst NY

MS Computer Science and Engineering

State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst NY

BS Electronics and Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology
Calicut India

CAST Presentation Travel Grant

College of Applied Science and Technology, Illinois State University
2024

CAST Presentation Travel Grant

College of Applied Science and Technology, Illinois State University
2024

Multicultural Leadership Program (MCLP) Scholarship

Illinois State University
2023

Teaching Innovation Award

School of Information Technology
2022

CAST Presentation Travel Grant

College of Applied Science and Technology, Illinois State University
2019

Grants and Contracts

GenCyber at Illinois State University: Cybersecurity for an IoT-Centric Digital Age
Sumesh Philip.
National Security Agency, National Science Foundation. September 1 2022 - August 30 2024
Scholarship for Service in Cybersecurity at Illinois State University
Sumesh J Philip.
School of IT. June 2022 - May 2023
GenCyber at Illinois State University: Cybersecurity for an IoT-Centric Digital Age
Sumesh Philip.
National Security Agency, National Science Foundation. September 1 2021 - August 30 2023
SIT SEED grant
Sumesh Philip.
School of IT. October 10 2021 - December 31 2021
SmartProfiler: A Machine learning Classifier for Rogue Device Detection in Internet-of-Things Networks
Sumesh J Philip.
School of IT. June 2021
SmartProfiler: A Machine learning Classifier for Rogue Device Detection in Internet-of-Things Networks
Sumesh J Philip.
University Research Grant, College of Applied Science and Technology. June 2021
University Research Grant: How secure are today’s smart home networks?
Sumesh Philip.
College of Applied Science and Technology. July 1 2020 - June 30 2021

Conference Proceeding

A Machine Learning Approach to RSSI-based Intrusion Detection in BLE IoT Networks
Sumesh J Philip.
The 6th IFSA Automation, Robotics & Communications for Industry 4.0/5.0 (ARCI' 2026) conference, Salzburg, Austria, (2026)
Opportunistic Attacks in Secure Provisioning of IoT Smart Devices
Sumesh J Philip.
The 5th IFSA Automation, Robotics & Communications for Industry 4.0/5.0 (ARCI' 2025) conference, Granada, Spain, (2025)
Access Control Attacks Against IoT Smart Devices: A Case Study
Sumesh J Philip, Amisha Amisha, Kamesh Kamesh.
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), (2024)
LoRaWAN v1.1 Security: Are We in the Clear Yet?
Sumesh J Philip, James McQuillan, Oluwatoba Adegbite.
IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys), (2020)
Role Based Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
Sumesh Philip, Chengzong Peng, Xiaojun Cao.
IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications

Journal Article

There's No Place Like Home: Understanding Users' Intentions Toward Securing Internet-of-Things (IoT) Smart Home Networks
Sumesh Philip, Truong Lu, Tract Carte.
Elsevier Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 139 (0747-5632), (2023)
Latency-bounded Off-Site Virtual Node Protection in NFV
Chengzong Peng, Danyang Zheng, Sumesh Philip, Xiaojun Cao.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume 18, 2545-2556, (2021)

Presentations

Opportunistic Attacks in Secure Provisioning of IoT Smart Devices
Sumesh Philip.
The 5th IFSA Automation, Robotics & Communications for Industry 4.0/5.0 (ARCI' 2025) conference, Granada, Spain, February, 2025
Access Control Attacks Against IoT Smart Devices: A Case Study
Sumesh Philip.
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), Harrisonburg, VA, May, 2024
LoRaWAN v1.1 Security: Are We in the Clear Yet?
Sumesh Philip.
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys), Online, December, 2020
Role Based Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
Sumesh Phillip.
IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications, Chengdu, December 8, 2019