Awards and Services

  • Mentored team of ASU students for Cyber Defense Competition Capstone (2019-2020).
  • Peer-mentor for newly admitted PhD students in ASU Fulton School of Engineering (FSE), (2019-)
  • Thesis Committee member for honor’s thesis students Eric Dejarnett, and Connor Belanger, (2019-2020)
  • Co-founded DevilSec, aimed at teaching offensive and defensive security to students at ASU, 2019. Club has over 200 online students as of May 2020.
  • Serving as a reviewer for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (ComSoC), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD), ACM Computing Surveys, ACM TOPS, Computer Networks Journal.
  • Student Member for ASU Research Computing Governance Board, OKED, (2018-2019).
  • Coach for ASU WRCCDC team (2018-)
  • ASU Team lead by Ankur stood 3rd in Services category at Western Region Cybersecurity Defense Competition (WRCCDC), 2018.
  • CyNET LLC, a cybersecurity startup co-founded by Ankur Chowdhary, Dijiang Huang and James Chung won Tech Connect Defense Innovation Summit Award, Tampa, FL, 2017.
  • CyNET LLC awarded $22,500 at ASU New Venture Challenge Award from among 50 participating startup ventures.
  • ASU Team lead by Ankur stood 1st in Business Inject category at Western Region Cybersecurity Defense Competition (WRCCDC), 2017
  • Mentored team of ASU students for Cyber Defense Competition Capstone (2017-2018)
  • Ankur was awarded outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) for Computer Science, 2016