Research Interests

• Consensus Protocol Improvement
• Smart Contract Security and Privacy
• Blockchain for AI
• Cyber-AI Integration
• Metering Trustworthy AI 

News

• June 2025 : Trained military and civilian personnel from various military and civil organizations on the CompTIA CySA+ course at CyberDawn 2025, hosted by the California Military Department and Cal OES. Played a Network Owner role for a Blue team exercise. Led interactive sessions focused on threat detection, vulnerability management, and security operations, fostering hands-on cybersecurity skills.
• April 2025 : Presented our work on “Randomizing Forger Selection in PoS-Based Consensus Protocols” and “Defending and Evaluating Model Poisoning Attacks Using Morphological Filters” at the CAE Cybersecurity Symposium 2025.
• March 2025 : Awarded the “Best Paper Award” for our paper titled “Randomizing Forger Selection in PoS-Based Consensus Protocols” at the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy. Authors : Syed Badruddoja, Bashar Allwza, Ram Dantu
• January 2025 : Our paper titled “Evaluating and Defending Backdoor Attacks in Image Recognition Systems” is accepted at the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy. Authors : Syed Badruddoja, Bashar Allwza, Ram Dantu
• January 2025 : Our paper titled “Randomizing Forger Selection to Improve Decentralization in Proof of Stake Consensus Protocol” is accpeted at the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, Authors: Syed Badruddoja, Sasi Kiran, Ram Dantu
• December 2024 : Completed AI FLC/PLC program with a successful culminating event.
• December 2024 : Completed CISLE FLC/PLC program with a successful culminating event.
• November 2024 : California State University, Sacramento ranked 47th nationally out of 550 colleges and universities in the Cyber Power Rankings in the Fall 2024 National Cyber League Competition
• August 2024: A new course “Introduction to Blockchain” is offered for the first time at California State University, Sacramento.
• May 2024: Completed ACUE Course on “Creating and Inclusive and Supportive Learning Environment (CISLE)”
• May 2024: Completed ACUE Course on “Generative AI (Gen-AI)”
• April 2024: Our paper titled “Revolutionizing Blockchain Consensus: Towards Deliberative and Unanimous Agreement” is accepted at “International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT) 2024”.
• March 2024: My student Sasi Kiran awarded 2nd place in the Student Research and Creative Activity Spring Symposium 2024.
• December 2023: Started working as the Co-PI for NSF-SFS (Scholarship for Service) grant. ( Awarded to CSU, Sacramento)
• December 2023: Started working as the Co-PI for the CS4NORTHCAL grant. ( Subawarded to )
• August 2023 : Our paper titled “The Dark Side of Metaverse: Why is it Falling Short of Expectation” is accepted at “The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications”.
• August 2023: Started working as an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento.
• July 2023: Our paper “Seamless Asset Exchange in Interconnected Metaverses: Unraveling On-Chain Atomic Swap” is accepted at “The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications”.
• June 2023 : Our paper titled “Layerwise interoperability in metaverse: Key to next-generation electronic commerce” is accepted at “IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom)”
• April 2023: Awarded “Best Poster” for our poster titled “Making Smart Contracts Predict and Scale” at the Symposium on Hot Topics in Science of Security (HoTSoS 2023) organized by National Security Agency NSA
• December 2022: Awarded “People’s Choice Award” for 3 Minute Thesis Competition organized by UNT
• December 2022: Completed the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Program (GSTEP) course .
• November 2022: Awarded second place at the IEEE Metrocon Poster Competition 2022 for the poster titled “Can Blockchain Help AI?”, organized by the Fort Worth Section of IEEE
• October 2022: Presented his work on “Trusted AI with BLockchain to Empower Metaverse” at the Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.
• September 2022: Awarded the “Best Paper” for our paper titled “Making Smart Contracts Predict and Scale” paper at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications BCCA2022.
• April 2022: Awarded the “Best Poster Layout” at the UNT Engineering Showcase Research Poster Competition for the poster titled “Can Blockchain Help AI?”.