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Hi folks! I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. Academically, I have worked as Assistant Professor of Practice in Department of Computer Science at University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and with Texas A&M University at Texarkana (TAMUT) as a Visiting Assistant Professor. I am currently chair of EMBS lone star section. For latest events please check our website.

For couple of years, I worked as a Data Scientist and Program Manager at Hiller Measurements, Austin, USA. Prior to that, I was a post-doctorate researcher on US-Qatar Joint Collaborative Project on “Wireless Medical Device Security”. The project was a joint research between Temple University (USA), University of Idaho (USA) and Qatar University (Qatar). I also worked as a visiting researcher at Wichita State University, Kansas, USA.

My research is broadly in the area of smart health, cognitive AI with complimentary areas of security.

2026 News!

  1. Shivangi Tripathi, Teancy Jennifer Rajesh, Henry Griffith, and Heena Rathore, “Paragraph-Level Hallucination Detection and Correction for Trustworthy Large Language Models in Networked Systems”, IEEE CCNC Workshop on 7th Security Trust Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE STP-CPS), 2026.
  2. Roopika Ganesh, and Heena Rathore, “Scaling MLFFN-based Lexicon Generation for Trustworthy and Explainable Cyber Physical Systems”, IEEE CCNC Workshop on 7th Security Trust Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE STP-CPS), 2026.
  3. Rakesh Das, Henry Griffith, Heena Rathore, “Distinguishing Sensor Faults and Malicious Attacks in Connected Vehicles Using Machine Learning”, 23rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC), 2026.
  4. Editorial Board Member for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. (2025-2028)
  5. Programme Advisory Board for the Certificate in Advanced Web Technologies Programme, Programme Advisory Board for the Certificate in Big Data Technologies programme, Namibia University of Science and Technology
  6. Want to submit? Topic Editor, Secure Cyber Physical Systems: Machine Learning and Cryptography, 2025.

Research interests:

  • Cognitive Artificial Intelligence,
  • Cyber physical systems,
  • Security and Privacy,
  • Distributed Systems,
  • Large Language models,
  • Biologically inspired systems.

Background

I was a Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur, India. My Ph.D. dissertation revolved around “Improving Security in Wireless Sensor Network through Bio-Inspired Approaches” in Computer Science and Engineering. My research area is interdisciplinary in nature which combines ideas from machine learning, psychology, biology and sensor networks. I have developed solutions for the detection and removal of fraudulent nodes in sensor networks based on ideas borrowed from the above-mentioned fields.

I received my bachelor’s in Computer Science Engineering from College of Technology and Engineering in 2010 with Honors. Academically, I worked as Assistant Professor for computer science department with SS College of Engineering. Professionally, I have also worked as Design Executive with Phosphate India Private Limited, India.