Rehan Akbani

Education

• Currently a PhD student in Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio
• MS in Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio
• BS in Computer Science with Honors (Summa Cum Laude), University of Texas at San Antonio

Research Areas 

• Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) Security
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Cryptography

Publications

1. Rehan Akbani, Turgay Korkmaz and G.V.S. Raju, “HEAP: A Packet Authentication Scheme for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,” Ad-hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier, 2007 (In press).
2. Rehan Akbani, Turgay Korkmaz and G.V.S. Raju, “HEAP: Hop-by-hop Efficient Authentication Protocol For Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the10th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium, Sponsored by SCS and ACM, pp 157-165, 2007
3. Rehan Akbani, Turgay Korkmaz and G.V.S. Raju, “A Packet Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, pp 401-407, 2007
4. G.V.S. Raju and Rehan Akbani, "Authentication in Wireless Networks," Proceedings of the 40th annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), pp270a, 2007
5. G.V.S. Raju and Rehan Akbani, "Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Security," International Engineering Consortium, Annual Review of Communications, Vol. 58, pp. 625-628, 2006.
6. Stephen Kwek and Rehan Akbani, “Adapting Support Vector Machines to Predict Translation Initiation Sites in the Human Genome,” IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB), Poster Session, 2005.
7. Rehan Akbani, Stephen Kwek and Nathalie Japkowicz, "Applying Support Vector Machines to Imbalanced Datasets," Proceedings of the 15^th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML), pp. 39-50, 2004
8. G.V.S. Raju and Rehan Akbani, "Security Issues in  Mobile Ad-hoc Networks," Center of Excellence In Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT), 2004.
9. G.V.S. Raju and Rehan Akbani, "Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem and its Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics (IEEE-SMC), 2003.

Academic Achievements and Awards

1. AFCEA Scholarship - 1^st Position Winner (2006)
2. Who’s Who Among Students (2005)
3. Upsilon Pi Epsilon (2005)
4. James Wagener Scholarship (2002)
5. Golden Key International Honors Society (2001)
6. The National Dean’s List (2000)
7. All-American National Collegiate Award (2000)
8. Presidential Honors Scholarship (1998)

Related web pages

• CS Department at UTSA
• UTSA Homepage