Education

• Aug 2008: PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering
• May 2001: MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Jan 1998: BSc Electrical Engineering

Research Interests

Security in communication networks and computer systems. Security in distributed wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks. Cryptography and remote entity verification. Information security and assurance. Risk analysis and modeling. Cyber security, system modeling and analysis, and multimedia security.

Selected Publications

• U. Ndili Okorafor, and D. Kundur, “On secure routing for hierarchical optical sensor networks”, book chapter in “From problem to solution: Wireless Sensor Networks Security”, 2008.
• Kundur, D.; Luh, W.; Okorafor, U. N.; Zourntos, T. “Security and Privacy for Distributed Multimedia Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the IEEE special issue on Advances in Distributed Multimedia Communications (invited paper), Volume 96,  Issue 1,  Jan. 2008 Page(s):112 - 130
• U. Ndili Okorafor, and D. Kundur, "On the Connectivity of Hierarchical Directional Optical Sensor Networks”, submitted to IEEE Journal of Mobile Networking.
• U. Ndili Okorafor, and D. Kundur, "A Secure Integrated Routing and Localization Scheme for Broadband Mission Critical Networks”, Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking, in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM – 2008.
• U. Ndili Okorafor, and D. Kundur, "On Node Isolation in Directional Sensor Networks”, in proc of ACM SenSys – 2007 (Poster)