Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering - Cyber Engineering and Security

The College’s cybersecurity research is focused on five major objectives: design of new systems that are inherently secure; protection of extremely complex systems, such as the web, mobile systems, and critical infrastructure; application of mathematical logic for systems assurance; analysis and detection of malware and other cyber attacks; and data mining and anomaly-detection algorithms to detect data sequences that indicate undesirable cyber behavior.A truly unique characteristic of the College’s cybersecurity research group is that the collection of research strengths allows our faculty to address security problems throughout the vertical structure of cyber systems from the system components to the user experience. This structure includes hardware, system software, application software, data security, and command and control. It is only through a systems approach to cybersecurity that the emergent effects that arise from combining components into complex systems can be understood to avoid catastrophic failures.