With the generous support of UH leadership, including President David Lassner, Vice President of Research and Innovation Prof. Vassilis Syrmos, UH ITS Director Garrett Yoshimi, UH Chief Security Officer Jodi Ito, UHM CAE-R is build on the collaboration of faculty and stuffs across the campus from multiple departments and labs. The following list recognizes some partners in this collaboration effort, in addition to many parties have contributed and help our research and educational programs.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Department of Information and Computer Sciences
The Department of Information Technology Management
UH Information of Technology Service
The Adaptive Security and Economics Lab
The Cyber Security and Application Research Group
The Hawaii Interdisciplinary Neurobehavioral and Technology (HINT) Lab
And many faculty and stuffs from each departments. This list certainly does not include all people and parties at UHM and across Hawaii. We are very grateful help their generous support and help.
The following is a short list of UHM faculty members who are directly contribute to our CAE-R. Many other faculty members have also made great contributions to our program. Although we cannot list all of them here, we really appreciate their help ans support.
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A short list of UHM CAE-R Faculty
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UH have a large group of faculty working in cyber, security, information, and communication related areas. In the following, we simply introduce a representative group of faculty members in EE, ICS, and ITM departments who are directly associated with this center, as the core group associated with this application. Many other faculty members working in IA/CD focus areas are available in different departments (EE, ICS, CIS, MIS, etc.) at UH, such as AI, big data systems, biometrics, cloud/grid computing, cryptography, customized architecture, data mining, infrastructure resilience, information retrieval, IT operational management, machine learning, network architecture, etc.
List current faculty by main area(s) of expertise in core CD areas:
1. Principles: Dusko Pavlovic, Rick Kazman, Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
2. Security Mechanisms/Functionality: Martha Crosby, Yingfei Dong, Dusko Pavlovic, Rick Kazman, Peter-Michael Seidel, Yao Zheng, Paul Shcmitt, Hoafan Cai, Liuwan Zhu, Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
3. Architectures: Yingfei Dong, Rick Kazman, Peter-Michael Seidel, Yao Zheng, Paul Schmitt
4. Assurance: Martha Crosby, Dusko Pavlovic, Peter-Michael Seidel, Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli
5. Operations: NSA visiting faculty Mr. Mark Nelson
6. Analysis: Marther Crosby, Yingfei Dong, Dusko Pavlovic, Rick Kazman, Peter-Michael Seidel, Yao Zheng, Paul Shcmitt, Hoafan Cai, Liuwan Zhu
7. Privacy: Yingfei Dong, Dusko Pavlovic, Yao Zheng, Paul Shcmitt, Hoafan Cai, Liuwan Zhu
8. Security of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Yingfei Dong, Yao Zheng, Paul Shcmitt, Hoafan Cai, Liuwan Zhu
(1) Dr. Yingfei Dong, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Dong obtained his PhD degree in Computer and Information Science at University of Minnesota in 2003. He joined University of Hawaii in 2003. He is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering since 2018. He is currently associated with UH Cyber Security and Application Research Group (https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/uh-uas-projects/), the ASECOLab (Adaptive Security and Economics Lab, (http://www.asecolab.org/ ) for security research, and the Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability (REIS) group (http://manoa.hawaii.edu/reis/ ) for smart grid and energy research. He is currently collaborating with colleagues at University of Minnesota, Florida State University, and other universities in networking security and privacy related projects, including anonymous communications, drone security, IoT security, smart grid communication security, cloud security, social-network related security issues, big-data related security issues, etc. His current research interests are mostly in computer network security, especially in designing and developing of secure Internet architectures and protocols, securing critical infrastructure systems (e.g., smart grid systems and cloud systems), enhancing anonymous communication systems for free speech, investigating the scalability and performance concerns of secure systems, stopping Denial of Service Attacks (DoS) and SPAM, developing secure dynamic inter-domain collaboration and resource sharing for real-time systems, etc. One of his previous projects on a verifiable electronic voting system has been selected by a Japanese company to develop commercial e-voting products. He has published over 82 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as organizers and program committee members for many IEEE/ACM/IFIP conferences. He is serving as an associated editor for a security-focus international journal. He has served reviewers for many IEEE/ACM/Elsevier/Wiley transactions and journals. His current research is supported by National Science Foundation. He is the founding member of IEEE SIG on Big Data Intelligent Networking.
Yingfei's CV. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1okydmMNZ4BY_3Lc01i3hbst8J1y1A2LI
(2) Dr. Dusko Pavlovic, Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Prof. Pavlovic was born in Sarajevo, studied mathematics in Utrecht, and worked at McGill, before turning to computer science at Imperial College London. He left academia in 1999, to work in software research in Palo Alto, and returned to academia as a Visiting Professor at Oxford 2007-2012, and an Extraordinary Professor of Security at Twente 2010-2013. He held a chair in Information Security at Royal Holloway University of London 2010-2013, where he founded ASECOLab (Adaptive Security and Economics Lab, http://www.asecolab.org/), hosting as "aseconauts" some of the most prominent security researchers and strategists. Dusko has been at University of Hawaii at Manoa since the Fall of 2013, and ASECOLab is now undergoing a transformation into a joint research venue, with IA/CD research projects combining the track record of Royal Holloway with the energy of University of Hawaii. Through years, Dusko's publications covered a wide area of research interests, from mathematics (graphs, categories) and quantum information theory (toy models, graphic formalisms), through theoretical computer science (semantics, symbolic computation) and software engineering (behavioral specifications, adaptation). In the last 15 years, his main research area was security. He designed and led the development effort towards a software tool for incremental derivation and analysis if cryptographic protocols, which he used to break and several established protocols (including IPSec GDOI, which was already standardized). His publications about security protocols were cited over 800 times, out of a total of more than 1900 citations. His recent work concerns, on one hand, security procedures combining cryptography with physical security and objects, and on the other hand quantitative and data analytic aspects of trust.
Dusko's CV. https://drive.google.com/open?id=11__CF4X1VluTb1B1yFkjDbIDkpe-eV_7
(3) Dr. Rick Kazman, Professor, Department of Information Technology Management
Prof. Kazman works in the design and analysis of large, complex software-intensive systems, from both the technical aspects of design and the economic and social implications of design decisions. His research methods, tools, and books have been adopted and applied by governments and Fortune 500 companies around the world. According to Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic my books and papers have been cited over 20,000 times. His research centers on the following topics, and their interaction of course: Designing for Security, Software Architecture Design and Analysis, Architecture/Design Analysis Tools and Methods, Technical Debt/Architecture Debt, Socio-Technical Congruence, IT Economics. He is the Chair IEEE TCSE (Technical Council on Software Engineering), 2016-present, the Chair IEEE TAC (Technical Activities Committee), 2018-present, and the Member TCSE Executive Committee, 2012-2015. He had severed on technical committees for over 100 professional conferences, reviewed for many IEEE/ACM journals, given many keynote speeches, and published over 200 referred journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and technical reports.
Rick’s CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qMGY2kHKHwNndy49VLWcuuZVsEvScaX7
(4) Dr. Martha Crosby Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Prof. Martha Crosby worked as a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards Central Radio Propagation Laboratories where she developed some of the first algorithms to digitally map the ionosphere. As a graduate student, she developed security algorithms for the Aloha Network and the ARPANET. She was the former Chair of ICS department. With backgrounds in mathematics, computer science, and educational psychology, her research has gravitated toward the human use of secure computer systems. She was a Co-PI (with PI Lance Hoffman at GWU) for NSF Partnership in Securing Cyberspace through Education and Service Project (2006-2015), which provided opportunities for students with diverse backgrounds to become Computer Security and Information Assurance (CSIA) professionals. She has continually provided successful applicants to the GWUSFS program. She was also co-PI on NSF Teaching Strategic, Operational and Defensive Cyber Security to the Next Generation from Sea to Shining Sea Project (2011-2015).
Martha’s CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ReOh9qAaDgIUtmb4WYyMIO4w08eJX09X
(5) Dr. Yao Zheng, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Prof. Zheng joined UH in Jan 2017. His current research areas are: (1) studying and mitigating the privacy threats in mobile advertising systems; (2) enabling spectrum sharing between heterogeneous wireless systems via Machine Learning. (3) enhancing wireless security at the physical layer using reconfigurable antennas. He has conducted high quality research in cloud security and anti-DDoS attacks, and two of his papers (“Scalable and secure sharing of personal health records in cloud computing using attribute-based encryption”, and “DDoS attack protection in the era of cloud computing and software-defined networking”) have been cited 836 and 168 times, respectively.
Yao’s CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JBR858WLNeYtPc78fv4oFIZlCQ--ehZD
(6) Dr. Peter-Michael Seidel, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Prof. Seidel has a long research record in computer and hardware design. His current research interests include Hardware Security, Noninterference, Privacy, Trust, Computer Arithmetic and Architecture, Formal Specification and Verification, Application-Specific Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Computer System Design and Optimization. He is in charge of several hardware design conferences that have broad impacts on hardware development and secure design. He is on the Steering Committee for the International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH), 2013 – present, the Founding Member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Computer, Arithmetic, Design (ICCD), 2012- present, Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computers, Special Issue on Computer, etc.
Peter’s CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oWus0zUB36rtO634tv8RKZTXYAVefy9F
(7) Dr. Paul Schmitt, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Paul Schmitt is an assistant professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara in 2017, and M.S. and B.A. degrees from the University of St. Thomas. Prior to joining the University of Hawaiʻi, Paul was a research computer scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute and was previously an associate research scholar at Princeton University.
His research interests include networked systems, privacy, network traffic inference and analysis using machine learning, scalable Internet measurement, and connectivity in developing regions. In particular, he is interested in creating immediately deployable solutions that are compatible with existing infrastructures.
Paul's CV https://pschmitt.net/docs/cv.pdf
(8) Dr. Haofan Cai, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Haofan Cai is an assistant professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering at University of California Santa Cruz, US, in 2023, and B.S. in Communications Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, China, in 2016.
Her research spans the areas of wireless networking, Internet-of-Things (IoT), mobile computing, and network security.
Haofan's CV https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HOm3FWdIeZo6Rx1xKwm5mQU1afx7l5HA/view
(9) Dr. Liuwan Zhu, Assitant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Liuwan Zhu is an assistant professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Old Dominion University, US, in 2023, and B.S. degree in Computer Science from Hunan University, China, in 2017.
Her research focuses on identifying and addressing security issues in computer systems, cyber-physical systems, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In particular, she is interested in the robustness and trustworthy AI.
Luwan's CV https://liuwan95.github.io/uploads/CV_LiuwanZhu.pdf
(10) Dr. Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli, Associate Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Mehdi Tarrit Mirakhorli is an associate professor in the department of Information and Computer Sciences at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to that Dr. Mirakhorli served as Kodak Endowed Chair, Associate Professor and Director of Research at ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute and Software Engineering Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. Mirakhorli is also the director of Software Assurance Laboratory. His research is the broad area of software engineering, he has carried out various projects of national importance in the areas of trustworthy software, software assurance, cybersecurity, resiliency, scientific software development, and software enabled sustainable disposal. Additionally, Dr. Mirakhorli has supported the implementation of President Biden's Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.
Mehdi's CV https://mehdimirakhorli.github.io/CurriculumVitae.pdf