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College of Applied Science and Technology

Dr. Sumesh Philip

Associate Professor of Cybersecurity
School Information Technology
Office
OU Old Union 203b
Office Phone
(309) 438-7070office
phone
Email
sjphil3@ilstu.eduemail
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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

357.001Tools And Techniques In Defensive Security

357.002Tools And Techniques In Defensive Security

359.001Tools And Techniques in Penetration Testing

357.001Tools And Techniques In Defensive Security

357.002Tools And Techniques In Defensive Security

359.001Tools And Techniques in Penetration Testing

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

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

Conference Proceeding

Philip, S., Amisha, A., & Kamesh, K. Access Control Attacks Against IoT Smart Devices: A Case Study. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets) (2024)

Sumesh J. Philip, James A. McQuillan, Oluwatoba Adegbite, "LoRaWAN v1.1 Security: Are We in the Clear Yet?", The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys), December, 2020

Sumesh J. Philip, C. Peng and X. Cao, "Role Based Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks," The 5th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 624-628, doi: 10.1109/ICCC47050.2019.9064319.

Journal Article

Philip, S., Lu, T., & Carte, T. There's No Place Like Home: Understanding Users' Intentions Toward Securing Internet-of-Things (IoT) Smart Home Networks. Elsevier Computers in Human Behavior Volume 139.0747-5632 (2023)

C. Peng, D. Zheng, S. Philip and X. Cao, "Latency-Bounded Off-Site Virtual Node Protection in NFV," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 2545-2556, Sept. 2021.

Presentations

Access Control Attacks Against IoT Smart Devices: A Case Study. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets). (2024)
LoRaWAN v1.1 Security: Are We in the Clear Yet?. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys). (2020)
Role Based Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications. IEEE. (2019)

Grants & Contracts

GenCyber at Illinois State University: Cybersecurity for an IoT-Centric Digital Age. National Security Agency, National Science Foundation. Federal. (2022)
Scholarship for Service in Cybersecurity at Illinois State University. School of IT. Illinois State University. (2022)
GenCyber at Illinois State University: Cybersecurity for an IoT-Centric Digital Age. National Security Agency, National Science Foundation. Federal. (2021)
SIT SEED grant. School of IT. Illinois State University. (2021)
SmartProfiler: A Machine learning Classifier for Rogue Device Detection in Internet-of-Things Networks. School of IT. Illinois State University. (2021)