Overview

Professor Salinas Monroy's current research interests are in cyberphysical systems and network security. He focuses on developing new methods to optimize and secure critical  infrastructures including additive manufacturing, power grids, and edge computing networks. His  work also includes enhancing user privacy in federated deep learning systems, securing resource allocation in supply chains, investigating cyberfraud, and developing strategies to deter cybercriminials. He currently serves as the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Information  Assurance and Cybersecurity and led the initiative to obtain the NSA/DHS CAE-CD designation at  WSU. He has served as organizer and technical program committee member for many IEEE  conferences.

Information

Academic Interests and Expertise

Education:

  • B.S. in Telecommunications Engineering, Jackson State University, 2010
  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2015
Areas of Research Interest

Cybersecurity in diverse applications

  • IoT
  • Industry 4.0
  • Edge computing

Profit and operations optimization

  • Edge computing
  • Cloud computing
  • LoT
  • Industry 4.0
Areas of Teaching Interest
  • CS 767 Foundation of Networks Security (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
  • CS 464 Computer Networks (Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
  • CS 766 Information Assurance and Security (Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
  • CS 464 Computer Networks (Spring 2018, Fall 2018)
  • CS 898AM Cyberphysical System Security (Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020)
  • CS 898AN Cloud Computing Security (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020)
  • CS 736 Data Communication Networks (Fall 2015)
Publications

Journal Publications

  •  Y. Suzuki and S. Salinas Monroy, “Prevention and mitigation measures against phishing emails: a sequential schema model,” Security Journal, pp. 1–21, 2021
  •  C. McGinley and S. Salinas Monroy, “Convolutional neural network optimization for phishing email classification,” in IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Special Symposium for NSF REU Research in Data Science, Systems, and Security, 2021
  • Farshad Mashhadi, A. Bozorgchenani, Sergio A. Salinas Monroy, and D. Tarchi, “Optimal auction for delay and energy constrained task offloading in mobile edge computing,” Communication Networks, pp. 1–8, 2020
  •  Farshad Mashhadi* and S. Salinas Monroy, “Economically-robust dynamic control of the additive manufacturing cloud,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, vol. (Early Access), 2020
  • M. Rott* and S. Salinas Monroy, “Power-based intrusion detection for additive manufacturing: A deep learning approach,” in 4th EAI International Conference on Industrial IoT Technologies and Applications, 2020
  • A. Prashar* and S. Salinas Monroy, “A secure algorithm for deep learning training under GAN attacks,” in International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), 2020
  • Farshad Mashhadi* and Sergio. Salinas Monroy, “Deep learning for optimal resource allocation in IoT-enabled additive manufacturing,” in IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, 2020

  • Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Xuhui Chen, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Sparse Linear Systems of Equations”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Big Data.

  • Weixian Liao, Ming Li, Sergio Salinas, Pan Li, and Miao Pan “Energy-Source-Aware Cost Optimization for Green Cellular Networks with Strong Stability”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.
  • Sergio Salinas, Xuhui Chen, Jinlong Ji, and Pan Li, “A Tutorial on Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Computations for Big Data”, IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp. 883-894, 2016.
  • Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Privacy-Preserving Energy Theft Detection in Microgrids:A State Estimation Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 883-894, 2016.
  • Arun Thapa, Ming Li, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Asymmetric Social Proximity Based Private Matching Protocols for Online Social Networks,” IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed System, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1547-1559, June 2015.
  • Ming Li, Sergio Salinas, Pan Li, Jinyuan Sun, and Xiaoxia Huang, “MAC-Layer Selfish Misbehavior in IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks: Detection and Defense,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1203-1217, August 2015.
  • Ming Li, Sergio Salinas, Pan Li, Xiaoxia Huang, Yuguang Fang, and Savo Glisic “Optimal Scheduling for Multi-radio Multi-channel Multi-hop Cognitive Cellular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 139-154, January 2015.
  • Ming Li, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Locaward: A Security and Privacy Aware LocationBased Rewarding System,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Special Issue on Trust, Security, and Privacy, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 343-352, February 2014.
  • Sergio Salinas, Ming Li, Pan Li, and Yong Fu, “Dynamic Energy Management for the Smart Grid with Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Grids”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 2139 - 2151, December 2013.
  • Sergio Salinas, Ming Li, and Pan Li, “Privacy-Preserving Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grids: A P2P Computing Approach,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 257-267, September 2013.
  • Sergio Salinas, Ming Li, and Pan Li, “Multi-Objective Optimal Energy Consumption Scheduling in Smart Grids,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 341- 348, March 2013.

Conference Papers

  • Sergio Salinas and Pan Li, “Secure Cloud Computing for Large-scale Pairwise Sequence Alignment”, ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB), Boston, MA, August 20-23, 2017.

  • Weixian Liao, Wei Du, Sergio Salinas, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Optimization for Smart Cities,” IEEE International Conference on Smart City , Sydney, Australia, December 12-14, 2016.
  • Abu Asaduzzaman, Shanta Mazumder, and Sergio Salinas, “An auspicious secure processing technique for near field communication systems,” IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, NY, October 20-22, 2016.
  • Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Weixian Liao, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Quadratic Programs,” ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), Xi’an, China, May 30-June 3, 2016 (Acceptance ratio: 73/350= 21%).
  • Sergio Salinas, Changqing Luo, Xuhui Chen, and Pan Li, “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Linear Systems of Equations,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’15), Hong Kong, China, April 26-May 1, 2015 (Acceptance ratio: 316/1640 = 19%).
  • Sergio Salinas, Weixian Liao, Changqing Luo, and Pan Li, “State Estimation for Energy Theft Detection in Microgrids,” International ICST Conference on Communications and Net- working in China (CHINACOM), Maoming, China, August 14-16, 2014 (Best Paper Award).
  • Weixian Liao, Sergio Salinas, Pan Li, and Miao Pan, “Optimal Energy Cost for Strongly Stable Multi-hop Green Cellular Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Madrid, Spain, June 30-July 3, 2014 (Acceptance ratio: 66/500 = 13%).
  • Ming Li, Sergio Salinas, Arun Thapa, and Pan Li, “n-CD: A Geometric Approach to Preserving Location Privacy in Location-Based Services,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’13), Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013 (Acceptance ratio: 280/1613 = 17%).
  • Sergio Salinas, Ming Li, and Pan Li, “Privacy-Preserving Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grids,” IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Commu- nications and Networks (SECON) , Seoul, Korea, June 18-21, 2012 (Acceptance ratio: 30% ).
Professional Experience
  • Present Associate Professor School of Computing Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć State University, Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć, KS
  • Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć State University Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć, KS- 8/2015- 5/2021
Clinical Experience

The Cybperphysical System Security Lab, led by Dr. Salinas Monrory offers a range of cybersecurity, AI analysis, and optimization services. Our projects have included penetration testing of Industry 4.0 equipment, development of augmented reality applications for IoT applications, and development of malicious network traffic detection using AI.

Awards and Honors
  • Recipient, Academy of Effective Teaching (AET) Award at Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć State University, Spring 2021
  • Finalist, Academy of Effective Teaching (AET) Award at Â鶹ĆĆ˝â°ć State University, Spring 2020
  • Recipient, Best paper award from the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Big Data, 2020
  • Recipient, WSU Ventures Innovation Award, 2019
  • Finalist, IEEE-HKN Nikola Tesla Award for Best Instructor in the EECS department, 2018
  • Finalist, IEEE-HKN Nikola Tesla Award for Best Instructor in the EECS department, 2017
  • Recipient, Undergraduate Research Collaboration Award (URCA), 2017
  • Recipient, Student Travel Grant, IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, China, 2015.
  • Recipient, Graduate Publication Award, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2014
  • Member, IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, Mississippi State University, 2014-Present
  • Recipient, Swalm Fellowship, Mississippi State University, 2010-2015
  • Recipient, Student Travel Grant, IEEE SECON, Seoul, Korea, 2012
  • Recipient, Academic Scholarship, School of Engineering, Jackson State University, 2006-2010
  • Recipient, Athletic Scholarship, Tennis Team, Jackson State University, 2006-2010
Grants
  • Awarded Proposals as Principal Investigator
    • S. Salinas Monroy (PI), “A proof of concept augmented reality application for error-free part collection in industry 4.0,” CNH Industrial, 10/18-12/19, total $45,000
    • ——, “URCA: A cybersecurity testbed for advanced manufacturing,” State of Kansas (URCA), 7/16-6/17, total $4,000
  • Awarded Proposals as Co-Principal Investigator
    • A. Rattani (PI), “A test bed to support biometrics and cybersecurity research and education at wsu,”Army Research Office, 2/20-1/22, total $136,399. Co-PIs: S. Salinas Monroy, KC Dukka
    • V. Aravinthan (PI), “Student housing and student program support for the 51st north american powersymposium,” NSF, 10/19, total $25,000. Co-PIs: S. Salinas Monroy, C. Pang, V. Namboodiri, J.Watkins
    • V. Namboodiri (PI), “REU Site: Enhancing undergraduate research experiences in networked cyberphysical systems,” NSF, 1/17-7/19, total $324,000. Co-PIs: S. Salinas Monroy, P. Wang, Y. Song.M. Jadliwala
  • Proposal Under Review as Principal Investigator
    • S. Salinas Monroy (PI), “Profit-optimal and secure additive manufacturing: A cyberphysical system approach,” NSF, 3/22-2/25, total $405,165
    • ——, “Establishment of a cybercorps scholarship for service program at wichita state university,” NSF, 3/22-2/27, total $2,464,716, Co-PIs: R. Chou and J. Jabara and A. Rattani
Areas of Service
  • Panelist: National Science Foundation (2020-present), Department of Energy (2020-present).
  • Journal Referee: IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable Computing.
  • Technical Committee Member: International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), IEEE Consumer Communications andNetworking Conference (CCNC), International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Technologies (ICNC).
  • Conference Organization: Student Program Chair of 2019 IEEE North American Power Symposium;Publication Chair of the 2018 EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing,Networking and Services.
  • Society Memberships
    • ACM, IEEE, IEEE-Communications Society, IEEE-Power and Energy Society, Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers
Additional Information

News

  • 6/24/2017: Dr. Salinas Monroy has been invited to participate as technical program committee member for the Social Networks and Big Data Symposium of IEEE/CIC ICCC 2017.

  • 6/1/2017: Our paper “Secure Cloud Computing for Pairwise Sequence Alignment” has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB) 2017. Dr. Salinas Monroy will deliver a talk describing the paper's proposed algorithm.
  • 4/21/2017: Dr. Salinas Monroy has been invited to participate as technical program committee member for INFOCOM 2018.
  • 5/27/2017: Dr Salinas Monroy has been invited to participate as technical program committee member for IEEE ICC 2018.
  • 3/15/2017: Our paper “Secure Outsourcing of Sparse Large-scale Linear Systems of Equations” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Big Data.

Technical Program Committee

  • 2017 ICC, ICCC, INFOCOM

  • 2016 ICC, ICCC, INFOCOM, CCNC, ICNC

  • 2015 ICIT

Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Society Memberships

  • ACM

  • IEEE

  • IEEE-PES, IEEE-ComSoc

  • Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers