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 and Networking as well as in Social Computing. His
current research includes developing system-level support for edge
computing, 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 Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
M.S. Computer Science, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL,
USA.
B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Bombay, India.
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NEWS
Good news: Our project
titled Design and Development of Microservice-Based Fog-Enabled Infrastructure
for Smart Agriculture has been funded by NSF as part of US-India
Collaborative Research. See details at research page links/smart agriculture.html
Our paper
titled Deradicalizing YouTube: Characterization, Detection, and
Personalization of Religiously Intolerant Arabic Videos has been accepted
in CSCW 2022.
Our IUCRC
(PPI Center) Industry Advisory Board meeting was held in Rochester,
Michigan in April 2022. We welcome Oakland University as the newest site
joining the PPI center. See details at https://hopin.com/events/nsf-center-on-pervasive-personalized-intelligence-meeting-workshop/registration
The PPI
Center is a multi-university, industry-focused research center under the
supervision of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). The
pre-competitive and industry-applied research projects we work on are funded
by industry members, our universities, and by the NSF. See the center
details at https://www.ppicenter.org/.
If you are
working in industry on areas related to AI/ML/system
support/security-privacy for IoT systems, we would love to talk to you and
hold a discovery session with you. Please contact us today at https://www.ppicenter.org/contact
I am
looking for a computer science undergraduate student to participate in our
SJEQ research project during Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. See details at open-position -
undergraduate student.pdf
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.
I am
looking for a computer science graduate student to participate in our SJEQ
research project during Fall 2022. See details at open-position.pdf
See press
releases and interviews of our article titled Analyzing Twitter Users
Behavior Before and After Contact by the Internet Research Agency (CSCW
2021) at:
Colorado Public Radio
CU Boulder Today
Colorado Public Radio
KOA NewsRadio
KDVR FOX 31 Morning News
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