Cyber Security Research and Education Center

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Executive Director, Cyber Security Research and Education Center (CySREC)
Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. I Dinstinguished Professor

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

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu
Director of Research, Cyber Security Research and Education Center (CySREC)
Associate Professor
Director, Data Security and Privacy Lab

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

Dr. Kamil Sarac
Director of Education, Cyber Security Research and Education Center (CySREC)
Associate 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. Kevin Hamlen
Senior Technical Advisor, Cyber Security Research and Education Center (CySREC)
Assistant Professor

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

Dr. Latifur Khan
Data Mining for Malware Detection
Associate Professor

Research Interests: data mining, multimedia information management, semantic web and database systems

Dr. Zhiqiang Lin
Systems and Cloud Security
Assistant Professor

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

Dr. Douglas Harris
Executive Director - CyberSecurity and Emergency Preparedness Institute

Dr. Edwin Sha
Professor

Research Interests: embedded software, information security, DSP architectures and parallelizations, embedded systems, compilers, parallel architectures, high-level synthesis in VLSI, software tools for parallel, distributed and embedded systems

Dr. I-Ling Yen
Professor

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

Dr. Eric Wong
Associate Professor

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

Dr. B. (Prabha) Prabhakaran
Associate Professor

Research Interests: multimedia systems

Dr. Weili Wu
Associate Professor

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

Dr. Neeraj Mittal
Associate Professor

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

Dr. Yiorgos Makris
Associate Professor

Research Interests:

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
Associate Professor

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

Dr. Indranil Bardhan
Associate 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
Professor

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

Dr. Fang Qiu
Associate Professor

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

Dr. John L. Worrall
Professor of Criminology and Program Head

Research Interests: prison architecture and police levels and crime

Dr. Nathan Berg
Associate Professor

Research Interests: behavioral economics and economic demography

Dr. Robert G. Morris
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: etiology of, and continuity in, technology driven crime; life-course criminology, contemporary issues in corrections administration, recidivism, and prison inmate behavior

Dr. Matthew Goeckner
Professor of Mathematics and Department Head

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