Nisha Vinayaga Sureshkanth

Senior Researcher at UTSA

Office:
SP1 310A, 506 Dolorosa St, San Antonio, TX 78204

Email:
vsnisha@ieee.org

Bio

Currently volunteering as a researcher with SPriTELab, and as the Embedded Systems and Integration Lead for developing a multi-disciplinary FlatSat testbed to enable cybersecurity research at UTSA.

Research Interests

  • Safety, Privacy and Security in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Machine and Deep Learning
  • Computational Biology
  • Game Theory, Blockchains, IoT

Work Experience

  • Researcher, SPriTELab, UTSA, January 2025 - Present
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, UTSA, January 2021 - May 2025
  • Graduate Research Assistant, UTSA, January 2018 - August 2020
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Wichita State University, August 2016 - December 2017

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, UTSA
  • M.S. in Computer Science, UTSA
  • BTech in Information Technology, Anna Univeristy (Madras Institute of Technology)

Awards and Honors

  • Received Best Poster Award at NSF CCRI Workshop 2021
  • Received Apple Student Travel Scholarship at IEEE WristSense 2018
  • Received IEEE WristSense 2018 Best Paper Award
  • Received NSF Student Travel Grant for PerCom 2018
  • Became fellow of the Eta Kappa Nu (Epsilon Xi Chapter), 2016

Recent Publications

  • Mythili Menon†, Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth†, Alec Schon, Kaitlyn Hemberger, and Murtuza Jadliwala, "Linguistic Hooks: Investigating The Role of Language Triggers in Phishing Emails Targeting African Refugees and Students", 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2026; Issue 1), Calgary, Canada, July 2026. [Pre-Print]
  • Mohd Sabra, Nisha Vinayaga Sureshkanth, Ari Sharma, Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala, "De-anonymizing VR Avatars using Non-VR Motion Side-channels", ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Seoul, Korea, May 2024. [Pre-Print]
  • Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Raveen Wijewickrama, Anindya Maiti, and Murtuza Jadliwala, "An Investigative Study on the Privacy Implications of Mobile E-scooter Rental Apps", ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 2022. [Paper] [Slides]
  • Anindya Maiti†, Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth†, Murtuza Jadliwala, Raveen Wijewickrama, and Greg P. Griffin, "Impact of E-Scooters on Pedestrian Safety: A Field Study Using Pedestrian Crowd-Sensing", IEEE PerCom Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications using Wrist Worn Smart Devices (WristSense), Pisa, Italy, March 2022. [Paper] [Slides]
  • Anindya Maiti†, Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth†, Murtuza Jadliwala, Raveen Wijewickrama, and Greg P. Griffin, "Impact of E-Scooters on Pedestrian Safety: A Field Study Using Pedestrian Crowd-Sensing", SPriTELab Report, May 2020. [Report]
  • Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Raveen Wijewickrama, Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala, "Security and Privacy Challenges in Upcoming Intelligent Urban Micromobility Transportation Systems", ACM Workshop on Automotive and Aerial Vehicle Security (AutoSec), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 2020. [Paper]
  • Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala, Kirsten Crager, Jibo He, and Heena Rathore, "A Practical Framework for Preventing Distracted Pedestrian-related Incidents using Wrist Wearables", IEEE Access, Volume 6, 2018. [Article]
  • Nisha Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, Anindya Maiti, Murtuza Jadliwala, Kirsten Crager, Jibo He, and Heena Rathore, "Towards a Practical Pedestrian Distraction Detection Framework using Wearables", IEEE PerCom Workshop on Sensing Systems and Applications using Wrist Worn Smart Devices (WristSense), Athens, Greece, March 2018. [Paper] [Slides] Best Paper Award


† Equally contributing authors of corresponding papers.