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Shivakant Mishra

 

Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

 

 

 

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mishras at cs dot colorado dot edu

 +1 303-492-4686

Links

Pervasive Personalized Intelligence: PPI Center: NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center

Social Justice & Environmental Quality-Denver: NSF Smart & Connected Community Project

The Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology

The CU CyberSafety Research Center

Department of Computer Science

University of Colorado Boulder

 

SHORT BIO

 

Shivakant Mishra is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the site co-director of the NSF IUCRC  (Industry University Cooperative Research Center) on Pervasive Personalized  Intelligence. He co-founded The Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology as well as The CU CyberSafety Research Center at CU-Boulder. He serves as a member of the CU Honor Code Advisory Board, Boulder Faculty Assembly and the newly formed Faculty Governance Council in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He served as associate chair of the Computer Science Department as chairs of the undergraduate or graduate programs for over 20 years. He was the General Chair of The 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2017) and The First and Second International Workshop on Computational Methods for CyberSafety (CyberSafety 2016. And CyberSafety 2017) which he co-founded. He has also served as the Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair of CyberSafety 2020, CyberSafety 2018 and MobiCASE 2014.

 

He enjoys doing research in Distributed Computing & Networking as well as in Social Computing. His current research includes developing system-level support for edge computing and digital twins at the edge, building socio-technical systems to empower environmental justice communities, strengthening democracy through technology, and investigating cybersafety issues in social networks. In the past, he has conducted extensive research in the areas of mobile group recommendations, cyberbullying in social networks, misbehavior detection in online video chat systems, multiplayer online game analytics, secure and intrusion-tolerant sensor networks, delay-tolerant networking, and group communication systems.

 

He teaches systems courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These include Computer Systems and Operating Systems at the undergraduate level and Distributed Systems, Computer Networks and Advanced Operating Systems at the graduate level. In addition, he has taught several special topics courses including Strengthening Democracy through Technology, Sustainable Computing, and Dependable Distributed Systems.

 

EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. Computer ScienceUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

M.S. Computer ScienceSouthern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA.

B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India.

 

NEWS

 

I participated in the CRA CCC Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) in Washington, DC in November 2023. See a blog post at https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2023/12/computing-researchers-get-crash-course-in-government-advocacy-at-cras-leadership-in-science-policy-institute-lispi/

 

Five papers from our research team have been accepted for publication and will be presented in conferences over the next few months:

 

* Ten Seconds Can Last Longer: Prevalence, Impact, and User Perceptions of Food Cues on Snapchat (ACM CSCW 2024).

* Shimmy: Accelerating Intercontainer Communication Using Shared Memory Channel (IEEE GlobeCom, December 2023).

* Towards a Scalable Architecture for Building Digital Twins at the Edge (ACM/IEEE DT2023, December 2023).

* PureNav: A Personalized Navigation Service for Environmental Justice Communities Impacted by Planned Disruptions (ACM/IEEE ASONAM, November 2023).

* Intelligent Irrigation Technique for LoRa Enabled Fog Assisted Smart Agriculture (IEEE WF-IoT, October 2023).

 

Three Ph.D. students graduated in Summer 2023:

 

* Nuha Albadi. Assistant Professor, Taibah University.

Dissertation title: Religious Hatred in Arabic Social Media: Analysis, Detection, and Personalization.

* Maram Kurdi. Assistant Professor, Taif University.

Dissertation title: An Exploration of the Negative Impact of Social Media and Strategies for Intervention.

* Omar Hamad. Assistant Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Dissertation title: A Socio-Technical System to Understand and Mitigate the Negative Impacts of Planned Disruptions on People Well-being.

 

Industry Advisory Board meeting for our PPI Center will be held in Portland, OR on April 3-4, 2024. Details coming up soon at https://www.ppicenter.org/.

 

I have multiple openings for Ph.D. students in my research group. If you are interested in research areas related to systems and networking, IoT or social computing, please check out my current research and contact me.