Research

My research interests are in computer security, cyber-physical systems/Internet of Things (IoT). I have worked in CRISP project, studying the cyber security issues in the transportation domain, on a honeypot for IoT project. More recently I have focused on studying Secure Software Development practices with our industry collaborators.

Publications

• An Analysis of the Role of Situated Learning in Starting a Security Culture in a Software Company Anwesh Tuladhar, Daniel Lende, Jay Ligatti, and Xinming Ou In Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021). USENIX Association, August 2021. (Awarded Distinguished Paper!)
• SoK: Understanding Security Issues in Vehicle Transportation Systems in a Holistic, Context-aware Manner. Anwesh Tuladhar and Xinming Ou. In submission.
• Data Aggregation and Visualization Technique for Traffic Sensor Data. A. Tuladhar, S. Malla, G. J. Quadri, and P. Rosen. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 239-240, October 2017.
• Multi-Spectral Satellite Image Analysis for Feature Identification and Change Detection VAST Challenge 2017: Honorable Mention for Good Facilitation of Single Image Analysis. S. Malla, A. Tuladhar, G. J. Quadri, and P. Rosen. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 205-206, October 2017.
• Visual Analytic Design for Characterizing Air-Sampling Sensor Performance and Operation. G. J. Quadri, A. Tuladhar, S. Malla, and P. Rosen. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp. 217-218, October 2017.

Posters and Presentations

• Cyber Security Challenges in Transportation Systems. Anwesh Tuladhar and Xinming Ou. Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2018.
• Intelligent Transportation Systems. Anwesh Tuladhar and Xinming Ou. Board of Governors (BoG) meeting, June 2017.

Education

• University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

  Ph.D. in Computer Science, Present.

• Kathmandu Engineering College, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Bachelors in Electronics And Communication Engineering, 2013

• St. Xavier's College, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal

  I.Sc. in Physics, 2009

• St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal

  SLC, 2007

Work Experience

• Facebook , Seattle, WA

  Software Engineering Intern, January 2021 - April 2021.

  Intern in the Product Security Program Analysis Team.

• Security Operations Center (SOC), University of South Florida

  Research Intern, Fall 2016 - Spring 2020.

  I am writing automation scripts for network analytics work.

• Synopsys Software Integrity , San Francisco, CA

  Technical Intern, May 2018 - August 2018.

  Worked in the Coverity static analysis team. Prototyped a client-side DOM-XSS checker for javascript by tracking possible dataflows through the DOM.

• Deerwalk Services , Kathmandu, Nepal | Main Office: Lexington, MA

  Software Engineer, November 2013 - December 2015

  Back-end developer in Benecore Project: Benecore is an innovative software solution designed to work in the Health care domain.

  I designed and implemented webservice for medical and financial data analytics and report generation tolls in grails with Elasticsearch and MySQL as backend databases. I also assisted in deployment of the applications into Amazon EC2 servers. I also implemented python scripts to regularly sync data between the Benecore web application and a legacy accounting software.

• Deerwalk Institute of Technology, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Numerical Method Instructor, December 2014 - December 2015

  I conducted the Numerical Methods practical sessions for B.Sc. IT students (Sophomore year).

Projects

• VAST Mini-challenge 2017, Summer 2017

  Participated in VAST mini-challenge 2017. Developed a data pre-processor tool in Apache Spark and a visualization tool in Processing 3 which reads an image map, converts it to an undirected graph and plots paths as a subway map and integrated with Tableau. I received mixed reviews for the tool with the scores of 4 (Good), 4, 3(Average), 3.

  Links to: Summary, Video

• Compiler Design for an Object Oriented Language (Diminished Java), Fall 2016

  Developed a Turing complete Object Oriented Programming Language for Compilers course.

• Yelp Dataset Challenge 2016, Spring 2016

  Developed a Spark application using StanfordNLP library to analyse businesses from Yelp dataset based on their user reviews, locations, and user communities as a final project for Parallel and Distributed Systems course.

• Particle Simulation, Spring 2016

  Optimized a simple serial particle simulator using 3 different techniques: OpenMP, MPI and GPU in the Stampede super computer as a part of Parallel and Distributed Systems course.

• Accelerometer Based Glove Mouse, Kathmandu Engineering College 2013

  Designed and developed an Accelerometer based Glove Mouse using AVR and ARM based micro-controllers. Used AVR studio and Arduino Sketch IDEs for the same.

  This project was selected for demonstration at the Army Technical Expo.

• Car Security System, Kathmandu Engineering College 2012

  Designed and implemented a Car Security System with PIR motion sensor using AVR based Micro-controller.