Dr. Danda B. Rawat, Ph.D., is an associate dean for Research & Graduate Studies and a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS). He is also the founding director of the Howard University Data Science & Cybersecurity Center, founding director of DoD Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (CoE-AIML), director of Quantum Research (QResearch) Lab, director of Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab, and director of Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program at Howard University.
He successfully led and established the Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy (RITA), the 15th University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) of the US Department of Defense as the PI/Founding Executive Director at Howard University. Rawat is engaged in research and teaching in the areas of cybersecurity, machine learning, big data analytics and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems (eHealth, energy, transportation), Internet-of-Things, multi domain operations, smart cities, software defined systems and vehicular networks.



