Education

Highlights: 

• Spring 2017, Principal Investigator, NSF CyberCorps Service for Scholarship (SFS) Program at UHM. Qualified Students please see the UHM SFS web site. We have a total of $5.2 millions to support up to 24 students starting Spring 2017 to Fall 2021.

• Fall 2016, Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP): We started a VIP project related to UAS applications and security. The goal is to combined design projects (EE296/396/496) into an integrated project with more detailed mentoring, deeper technical skill development, and focused experience.

  • VIP Student Poster Award: 2nd Place, 3/2019 

Departmental Security Curriculum Development 

• Developed a new undergraduate course, EE406 Introduction to Computer and Network Security, as a new technical elective course in computer engineering, started in Spring 2007 to present. Now EE406 is a required class for ICS Security Science Concentration in 2017. It will also be a required course for incoming EE Computer Security Concentration.

• Developed a new graduate course, EE609 Computer and Network security, started in Spring 2009

• Developed a new graduate course, EE693F Smart Grid (SG) Communication and Security in Fall 2013.

• Planning a new Reverse Engineering course in 2018, which is a required component for NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operation (CAE-CO).

 University-Level Security Education and Workforce Development

• Principal, NSA/DHS Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R), 2015-2019, 2019-2024

• PI, NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, 2016 to present

  • Obtained a NSF SFS sub-award for 3 students, 2016-2017 

  • Started our own 5-year CyberCorps SFS program (2017-2023): graduated 20 SFS scholars by May 2023

• Collaboration with both government agencies and industry partners for student interns and long-term employees, including NSA Hawaii, Hawaiian DOD, PACOM, MITRE, Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon, etc.

EE Design Projects, ROTC cadet projects, REU Projects, VIP projects 

• Advised over 50 sophomore/junior/senior design projects EE296/396/496, 2005-present  

• Supervising Army ROTC cadets and Airforce ROTC cadets for cyber projects 2017-2018, 2018-2023

• Supervised 7 funded COE REU projects, 2014-present

• Became an advisor for Vertical Integrated Projects (VIPs), 2016-present

 Courses taught

• EE 361 Digital Systems and Computer Design, Fall’06/07

• EE 406 Introduction to Computer and Network Security: Spring’07/09, Fall’10, 12-present, 

• EE 461 Introduction to Computer Architecture: Spring’04/06/08/10/11/13

• EE 602 Introduction to Algorithms: Fall’11/12, 16-present

• EE 604 Artificial Intelligence, Summer ’10

• EE 609 Computer and Network Security: Spring’09/10, 12-present

• EE 660 Computer Architecture: Fall’03/04/05/08/14

• EE 693F Smart Grid (SG) Communication and Security: Fall’13

• EE 699 Directed Research: Spring’04-present

Students advised 

• PostDoc

  • Wenxin Chen, Aug 2021-present

• PhD students

  • Jiapeng Zhang, Broadcom, May 2017

  • Todd Baumeister, Adobe, May 2019

  • Wenxin Chen, May 2021

•  MS students:

  • Dawei Yang, expected, Dec 2023

  • David Liang, DOD, May 2023

  • Nguyen Banh, graduated, Dec 2022, US Space Force

  • Hoku Tobin, graduated, May 2022. Lawrence Livermore National Lab

  • Dylan Tokita, DOD, Dec 2020

  • Jianqiu Cao, TuSimple, Dec 2020

  • Anthony Gasbarro, NIWC, May 2020

  • Yeon You, Georgia Institute of Technology , May 2020

  • Elena Barbour, DOD, Dec 2019

  • Garrett Johnson, Navy Applied Research Lab, May 2018

  • Evan Law, Hawaii DoD, May 2018

  • Hualiang Li, Amazon, May 2018

  • Matthew Troglia, Sandia Lab, Dec. 2016

  • William Nalle, Raditek, May 2015

  • Chi Fong Kuan, Concentris Systems, Dec. 2014

  • Yuan Liu, Univ. of Florida at Miami, Aug 2012

  • Ted Shaw, Hawaiian Electrical Company, Aug 2012 

  • Qi Zhang, Pacific Commercial Services, Aug 2010  

  • Jiang Li, ZTE Corporation, Dec. 2008 

  • Xiaojiang Liu, Cornell University, Aug 2007 

  • Vicky Zeng, Univ. of Wisconsin, Aug 2006

• Served on over 20 PhD and MS thesis committees in both EE and ICS

• Advising 50+ students in EE296/396/496 and VIP project ENGR296/396 every year

• Student Awards

  • Andrew Igarashi, COE Outstanding Graduate Senior Award, 2009

  • Todd Baumeister, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation Honolulu Chapter, Martin Award in Computer Science, 2013

  • Yeon You, Outstanding TA, College of Engineering, 2020