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     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 quantum
    computing and 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 
      
    Congratulations
    to my Ph.D. advisee Fei Hu for successfully defending her Ph.D.
    dissertation. 
    Dissertation
    Title: A Dynamic
    Distributed Scheduler for Computing on the Edge. 
      
    Congratulations
    to my Ph.D. advisee Jinpeng Miao for successfully
    defending his Ph.D. dissertation. 
    Dissertation
    Title: A
    Fog-enabled Microservice-based Multi-Sensor IoT System for Smart
    Agriculture.  
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