Research

Advancing the security, privacy, resilience, and trustworthiness of increasingly connected and autonomous transportation systems.

Topics include vehicle security, vehicular networks, wireless/mobile security, embedded systems, sensors, connected vehicles, and intelligent transportation infrastructure.

Harnessing artificial intelligence to detect, understand, predict, and respond to cybersecurity threats.

Topics include AI-enabled cyber defense, intelligent threat detection, automated analysis, resilient networks and systems, and security analytics.

Understanding and mitigating the new security, privacy, and safety risks created by AI systems.

Topics include adversarial machine learning, trustworthy AI, AI safety, privacy-preserving AI, explainable AI, embodied AI security, deepfakes, and security of AI-enabled systems.

Protecting systems in which computation interacts directly with physical processes and essential infrastructure.

Research spans power and energy systems, industrial control systems, microgrids, cyber-physical systems, IoT, communications infrastructure, and resilient 5G/6G networks.

Developing methods for understanding attacks, collecting and analyzing digital evidence, protecting information, and investigating increasingly sophisticated cyber incidents.

Research includes information forensics, data security and privacy, sensor security, digital content protection, system and network security, and related areas.

Cybersecurity is simultaneously a technical, organizational, economic, and human challenge.

This thrust investigates security governance and management, privacy, policy, organizational decision-making, and the interaction between technology and people.