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Shana Moothedath

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office: 2212 Coover Hall
Phone: 515-294-3625
Address:

2212 Coover Hall

2520 Osborn Drive

Ames, IA, 50011

Brief Biography

I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Network Security Lab in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle (UW) till 2021,

where I was supervised by Radha Poovendran and Linda BushnellI received my PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) under the supervision of Prasanna Chaporkar and Madhu Belur in 2018.

Research Interests

Control and security of cyber-physical systems, Game theory, Sparse signal

processing, Control and optimization

Note to Prospective Students

I am currently looking for motivated students to work in the areas of game theory, reinforcement learning, and signal processing. If you are interested to join my lab, please send me an email explaining why you are interested and include your CV and transcript(s).

Sponsors

Openings!

 

 

We are recruiting Ph.D. scholars in the area of  security of cyber-physical systems,

game theory and learning, and distributed machine learning. Interested candidates,

please contact me with your recent CV and transcripts.  

News

April 2024

  • Apr 13: We organized CyMath Engineering Day for Ames school kids see here

  • Apr 6: Our paper on Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Bandits is accepted in ISIT, 2024. Congratulations Jiabin!

February 2024

  • Feb 5-6: I attended the Annual Meeting of the University Consortium for Health, Food, and Agriculture Resilience at Purdue University.

  • Feb 5: I gave a talk at ECE Dept. Purdue University, on Multi-Task Representation Learning for Sequential Decision Making  

January 2024

  • Jie joined our research team. Welcome Jie!

  • Jan 5: I gave a talk at Northcrest community, Ames, on  Cyber Security and Best Practices​

December 2023

Two papers were accepted to ICASSP 2024. 

November 2023

A new grant from Dept. of Homeland Security

Sponsor: Argonne National Laboratory.

Federated Intrusion Response Network for Grids

PI: Manimaran Govindarasu. Thank you, DHS and ANL!

September 2023

  • Sep 26-29: I am attending Allerton conference. Ahmed presented our paper.

  • Sep 25: New paper accepted in IEEE-TAC

  • Sep 15: Paper accepted in Automatica

  • Sep 9: Python boot camp begins

  • Sep 5: CyMath 3.o started

August 2023

  • Aug 26: New paper accepted to IEEE-TAC. 

  • Aug 22: I gave an invited talk at IIT Kharagpur, organized by IEEE Kharagpur section; Women in Engineering (WIE), and Control System Society

  • Aug 7: Our paper was accepted to the Allerton Conference, 2023. Congratulations Ahmed!

May 2023

  • I attended ACC 2023

  • Jiabin presented our paper at ACC

March 2023

Two papers were accepted to ECC, 2023. Congratulations Jiabin!

February 2023

Our paper Comparing Decentralized Gradient Descent Approaches and Guarantees got accepted to ICASSP 2023.

January 2023

Our paper Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Linear Bandits got accepted to ACC 2023. Congratulations Jiabin!

September 2022

NSF grant! Co-PI: Namrata Vaswani.

Fully Decentralized (Attack-)Resilient Dynamic Low-Rank Matrix Learning.

July 2022

Two papers got accepted to CDC 2022.

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