Bharath Samanthula is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Montclair State University. He teaches courses on cryptography, computer and network security, and conducts research on privacy-enhanced models, distributed data mining algorithms and information security. Currently, he serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator for MS-Cybersecurity program.

Prior to joining MSU, Dr. Samanthula worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Cyber Center Department and also served as a visiting assistant professor in the at Purdue University. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2013. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Primary research interests span across Applied Cryptography, Information Security, Data Mining, and Big Data. Dr. Samanthula's current work centers around the development of privacy-enhanced techniques for various distributed data management and analysis tasks in the fields of Online Social Networks, Cloud Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Grids. Additionally, he is investigating novel approaches to improve STEM education in local schools via computational thinking tools.

Dr. Samanthula's team is working on the following cutting-edge research projects: (i) Privacy-Preserving and Collaborative Data Analytics in Cloud (ii) Optimized Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks (iii) Privacy-Aware and User-Centric Data Management in Cloud (iv) Secure Retrieval of Top-K Similar Documents in Outsourced Databases

Interests span across Applied Cryptography, Information Security, Data Mining, and Big Data.

Teaches courses on cryptography, computer and network security, and conducts research on privacy-enhanced models, distributed data mining algorithms and information security, and currently serves as the Graduate Program Coordinator for MS-Cybersecurity program.

Expert on information security, applied cryptography, developing privacy-aware distributed algorithms, and cloud computing.