Sneha Kumar Kasera

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, John and Marcia Price College of Engineering
Professor, Kahlert School of Computing
Academic Chair, Stena Center for Financial Technology

About me: I joined the University of Utah in 2003. From 1999-2003, I was a member of technical staff in the Mobile Networking Research Department of Bell Laboratories. Earlier, I received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (advisors: Jim Kurose and Don Towsley), and a master's degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (advisor: Utpal Mukherji).

Sneha Kasera

Research

I am leading the Advanced Networked Systems Research (ANSR) Lab that I founded in 2003.

My research interests include networks and systems - technologies, protocols and applications encompassing mobile and pervasive systems and wireless networks, artificial intelligence, security, privacy, and reliability, sensing, crowdsourcing, dynamic spectrum access, software-defined radios, network resource management, network measurements and models.

Selected Professional Activities

Program Co-Chair – IEEE WoWMoM Symposium 2020
Program Co-Chair – ACM WiSec Conference 2017
Program Co-Chair – ACM MobiCom Conference 2015
Steering Committee Member - IEEE SECON, 2012-2018
Associate Editor - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011-2015
Associate Editor - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2009-2013
Program Co-Chair – IEEE ICNP 2011
Program Co-Chair – IEEE SECON 2011

Teaching

Fall 2025:
CS 6957: Secure Computing Projects

Spring 2025:
CS 6490: Network Security
CS 6957: Secure Computing Projects

Graduate Students

  • PhD Students

    Current Students

    Ayaz Mahmud
    Aarushi Sarbhai
    J. Phillip Smith

    Past Students

    Arijit Banerjee (at Federated Wirele
    Aniqua Baset (at Aerospace Corporation)
    Mojgan Khaledi
    Jun Cheol Park (at Adobe)
    Phil Lundrigan (faculty member at BYU)
    Joe Novak (at Raytheon)
    Sriram Premnath (at Qualcomm)
    Matthew Probst (at Quantum Black)
    Rob Ricci (faculty member at University of Utah)
    Shamik Sarkar (postdoc at UCLA)
    Junxing Zhang (faculty member at Inner Mongolia University, China)

  • MS Thesis Students

    Current Students

    Gaurav Sharma

     

    Past Students

    Pavithra Chidambaram (at Microsoft)
    Michael Clark (at Riverside Research)
    Anuj Dimri (at American Family Insurance)
    Naveen D.S. (at Amazon)
    Anneswa Ghosh (at Microsoft)
    Suman Jana (faculty member at Columbia University)
    Prarthana Lakshmane Gowda (at Cisco)
    Manas Maheshwari (at Apple)
    Shobhi Maheshwari (at Tableau)
    Swaminathan Pichumani (at Google)
    Siddharth Ramesh (at Microsoft)
    Aakanksha Saha (at Microsoft)
    Aarushi Sarbhai (PhD student at University of Utah)
    Manav Seth (at Microsoft)
    Harsimran Singh (at Microsoft)