Our Faculty and Staff

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Executive Director, Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI)
Founders Chair Professor

Research Interests: Data security, data mining for counter-terrorism, secure cloud computing

Rhonda Walls

Rhonda Walls

Project Coordinator

Cyber Security and Research Education Institute (CSI)

 

Dr. Kamil Sarac

Director of Education, Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI)
Professor

Research Interests: Computer networks, network and service monitoring and Internet measurements, overlay networks, network security and denial-of-service defense, group communication and IP multicast

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu

Professor
Director, Data Security and Privacy Lab

Research Interests: Security/privacy issues in data mining, databases, healthcare and social networks, cryptography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Kevin Hamlen
Professor

Research Interests: In-lined reference monitors, execution monitors, type-safe intermediate languages

 

 


Dr. Latifur Khan
Director of Security Analytics, Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI)

Professor

Director, Big Data Analytics Lab

Research Interests: Big data analytics, data mining for malware detection, multimedia information management, semantic web and database systems

Dr. Jorge Cobb

Dr. Jorge Cobb

Director of Outreach, Cyber Security Research and Education Institute

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Computer networking


Dr.Yvo Desmedt
Jonsson Distinguished Professor

Research Interests: Access control, anonymity and internet voting, conventional cryptography, bridging theory and practice, critical infrastructures, cryptanalysis, breaking and hacking of systems, distributed and network security (including: reliable and perfectly secure message transmission, secret sharing, secure multiparty computation,verifiable secret sharing), economic models for information security, hardware security, public key cryptography


Zygmunt Haas
Professor

Research Interests: Wireless communications and mobile systems and biologically inspired complex systems and networks.


Chung Hwan Kim
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Systems security; software security; cyber-physical systems/IoT security

Dr. Sriraam Natarajan

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Machine Learning

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence and machine learning and their application to healthcare problems

 

 Shuang HaoDr. Shuang Hao

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Network and system security

 


Wei YangDr. Wei Yang

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Software engineering and security



 Dr. Kangkook Jee

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: System and network and security; IoT and SCADA systems, machine learning/artificial intelligence security

 



Dr. Feng Chen

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Large-scale data mining, graphing mining and machin learning

Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Applications of machine learning and statistical analysis towards enhancing robustness and trustworthiness of integrated circuits (ICs) and systems, developing methods for detecting hardware Trojans and counterfeit ICs, protocols for trusted acquisition of third party hardware intellectual property (IP), post-deployment trust monitoring solutions, as well as general test and reliability methods for digital and analog circuits.

J. V. Rajendran
Dr. Jeyavijayan (JV) Rajendran

Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Hardware security, nanoelectronic computing architectures, VLSI design
 

Dr. Zhiqiang Lin
Adjunct Professor

Research Interests: System (OS and Hypervisor) and software security, virtualization, reverse engineering, binary analysis, computer forensics, and cloud computing.

Dr. Alvaro Cardenas
Adjunct Professor

Research Interests: Intrusion detection, critical infrastructure protection, smart grid security and privacy, big data analytics for security, wireless networks, security economics, game theory, embedded systems, trusted computing

 


 Dr. Kanad Basu
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Hardware-based malware detector, functional safety and security, hardware security, edge computing, deep learning for augmented and virtual reality, post-quantum cryptography


 

 

Affiliated Faculty - School of Engineering and Computer Science


 

Farokh Bastani
Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: AI-based automated software synthesis and testing, embedded real-time process-control and telecommunications systems, formal methods and automated program transformation, high-assurance autonomous decentralized systems , high-confidence software reliability and safety assurance, inherently fault-tolerant and self-stabilizing distributed systems, modular parallel programs, tele-collaborative systems.


Dr. I-Ling Yen
Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Distributed and parallel systems, web technologies, fault tolerance for parallel and distributed systems, multimedia systems and tools

Dr. Eric Wong
Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Program-based testing, debugging, reliability, safety, and analysis; architecture/design-based testing, debugging, metrics, and analysis.

Dr. B. (Prabha) Prabhakaran
Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Multimedia systems

Dr. Weili Wu
Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Optimization problems that occur in wireless networking environments and various database systems

Dr. Neeraj Mittal
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: distributed systems, wireless and ad hoc networks, wireless network security, software transactional memory


Cong Liu
 Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Real-time and embedded systems, battery-powered cyber physical systems, mobile and cloud computing.


 

 

Dr. Vincent Ng
Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Machine learning of natural language, text mining and NLP applications, opinion and argumentation mining, anaphora and coreference resolution, morphology and part-of-speechn tagging and information extraction


Vibhav GogateDr. Vibhav Gogate

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining and big data


Dr. Nicholas Ruozzi
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Combinatorial optimization, large-scale graphical models, approximate counting and inference, and belief propagation style (e.g., min-sum, sum-product, etc.) message-passing algorithms.


Dr. Shiyi Wei

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Programming languages, software engineering and security.

Ebru Cankaya

Dr. Ebru Cankaya
Associate Professor of Instruction, Computer Science

Research Interests: Computer security, data security, lossless compression, cryptology

Nhut Nguyen
Dr. Nhut Nguyen

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science

Research Interests: Computer networking

   

Dr. Richard Goodrum
Professor of Instruction, Computer Science and Computer Engineering

 

Dr. Neeraj Gupta
Senior Lecturer of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Affiliated Faculty - School of Management



Dr. Alain Bensoussan
Director of the International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis
Distinguished Research Professor of Operations Management

Research Interests: Applied mathematics, control theory, risk management, inventory control and finance

Dr. Huseyin Cavusoglu
Professor

Research Interests: Economics of information systems, information security management, homeland security, product customization and supply chain management

Dr. Indranil Bardhan
Professor

Research Interests: Business value of information technology, IT investment planning and prioritization, new product development, IT strategy research and data envelopment analysis

Dr. Srinivasan Raghunathan
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Economics of IT security and information sharing in supply chains


Affiliated Faculty - School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences


Dr. Jennifer Holmes

Dr. Jennifer Holmes

Dean and Professor

Research Interests:  Political violence, terrorism, political development

Dr. John L. Worrall
Professor of Criminology and Executive Director, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Research Interests: Crime control policy, legal issues in policing, prosecution, courts, panel data modeling and measurement

 

 

Dr. Patrick Brandt

Professor

Research Interests: Event count time series models, forecasting methodology and evaluation, inter- and intra-state conflict, international and comparative political economy, terrorism, vector autoregression.

 

Dr. Fang Qiu
Professor and Department Head, Geographic Information Sciences

Research Interests: Remote sensing digital image processing, spatial analysis and modeling, GIS application software development, and web-based mapping and information processing.



 

Affiliated Faculty - School of Mathematical Sciences


Dr. Matthew Goeckner

Professor of Mathematics and Associate Dean

Research Interests: Plasma-materials interactions, plasma science, material growth kinetics.

 Dr. David Lary

Dr. David Lary
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Remote sensing and computation

Michael Baron

Dr. Michael Baron

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests: Sequential analysis and sequential design; bayesian inference; change-point detection; applications of statistics in clinical trials, epidemiology, semiconductor manufacturing, energy finance and cyber security.

 Yulia Gel
Dr. Yulia Gel

Professor of Mathematics

 

Research Interests: Time series analysis, spatio-temporal processes, regularization for weakly dependent data, high-dimensional inference, statistical inference for random graphs and networks, nonparametrics, bootstrap and resampling.  Applications of statistics to environmental modeling, epidemiology, finance and legal studies.


Affiliated Faculty - School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Dr. Daniel Krawczyk
Francis Chair Professor and Deputy Director

 

 

Research Interests: Cognition and neuroscience of reasoning,memory and attention.

 

 


James Bartlett
Ashbel Smith Professor

Research Interests: Theoretical and applied aspects of human perception and memory for complex, multi-faceted objects and events including human faces, visual scenes, and melodies, normal and pathological aging of perception and memory, and the role of affect in perception and memory.




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