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Cyber Academic Group Chair Dr. Dan Boger
Professor Dan C. Boger is currently Chair of the Cyber Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has previously served as Executive Director of the National Security Institute, Vice President and Dean of Research, as well as Dean of the Division of Computer and Information Sciences and Operations. He has also served as Chairman of the Computer Science Department, the Information Warfare Academic Group, the Command and Control Academic Group, and the Information Systems Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School. Professor Boger holds a B.S. in Management Science from the University of Rochester, an M.S. in Management Science from the Naval Postgraduate School, and both an M.S. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Econometrics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Luis Aybar
LT, USN, Lecturer
M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 2017
Research Interests
Offensive cyber systems, network virtualization, cloud computing, artificial intelligence
David L. Alderson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Research Interests
Modeling and analysis of critical infrastructures, with particular emphasis on how to invest limited resources to ensure efficient and resilient performance in the face of accidents, failures, natural disasters, or deliberate attacks. Emphasis on tradeoffs between efficiency, complexity, and fragility in a wide variety of public and private cyber-physical systems.
CDR Pablo Breuer, USN
Information Dominance Center of Excellence
Raymond R. Buettner, Jr.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2003
Karen Burke
Research Associate Professor
MS, Southern Illinois University, 1979
Research Interests
Information Assurance, Government policy
Scott Coté
Senior Lecturer
MS, Naval Postgraduate School, 2000
Research Interests
Network design and integration, wireless networking, network security and robotics.
Rudy Darken
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
Research Interests
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human cognition and behavior models for simulations
Duane Davis
Research Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2006, Naval Postgraduate School.
Research Interests
Robotic swarms and cooperative multi-vehicle systems, ethics in autonomous systems, robot control architectures, and cyber operations policy and strategy.
Dorothy Denning
Distinguished Professor (2002)
Ph.D, Purdue University
Research Interests
Conflict in Cyberspace; Cyber Security; Trust, Influence and Networks
Chris Eagle
Senior Lecturer
MS, Naval Postgraduate School, 1995
Research Interests
Computer Network Attack/Defense/Exploitation, Computer Forensics, Reverse Engineering.
John D. (JD) Fulp
Senior Lecturer
MS, Naval Postgraduate School, 1996
Research Interests
Implementation of Public Key Infrastructure, Design of Secure Networks
Shelley P. Gallup
Research Associate Professor (1999)
Ph.D., Old Dominion University, 1998
Research Interests
Research interests are in knowledge systems, Organization development, Research methods applied to complex systems
Mark Gondree
Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2009
Ted Huffmire
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2007
Research Interests
Computer Architecture, Computer Security
Wade L. Huntley
Senior Lecturer, NSA & CAG
Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1993
Cynthia Irvine
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research
Ph.D., Case Western University, 1975
Research Interests
Information Assurance, Multilevel Security, High Assurance Security Engineering, Network Security, Security Models, Distributed Systems Security, Security Requirements Engineering, Information Assurance Pedagogy, Systems Architecture
Scott Jasper, CAPT, USN (ret)
Lecturer
PhD Candidate at the University of Reading, U.K.
Research/Teaching Interests
Cyber Security Policy and Practice, Cyber Deterrence Strategies
Joe LoPiccolo, CIO and Director of ITACS
Luqi
Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1986
Research Interests
Cyber Security, Risk Assessment, Cognitive Modeling, Runtime Monitoring, Cyber-Physical Systems, Autonomous Systems, Network & Communications Systems, Distributed Systems of Systems, and C4ISR Modeling and Simulation, Data Science, Document Conversion, Reliable Software Architectures, Rapid Prototyping & Agile Methods for Software Automation.
CDR Thor Martinsen, USN, PhD
Assistant Professor
PhD, Naval Postgraduate School, 2017
Research Interests
Cryptography & Coding Theory, Cyber Warfare, Computer Security, Electronic Warfare
Dr. John McEachen
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thuy Nguyen
Research Associate
B.A., University of California at San Diego, 1982
Research Interests
Advanced Topics in Computer Security, Trusted Operating Systems and Kernels, Multilevel Security Applications, Common Criteria Evaluation for High Robustness Systems, Secure Web Services
Alan Shaffer
Senior Lecturer (2016)
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School, 2008
Research Interests
Security modeling of systems; high assurance system verification; formal methods analysis; network virtualization. Research interests moving toward data science and cloud computing.
Pante Stanica
Professor
Ph.D. in Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1998; Doctorate in Mathematics, University of Bucharest, 1998.
Research Interests
Cryptography, Boolean functions, Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics.
CDR Zachary Staples, USN
Director, Center for Cyber Warfare
Master of Arts, NPS 2003
Research/Teaching interests
Maritime cyber security
Dr. Preetha Thulasirama
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2010
Research/Teaching Interests
Wireless and cyber networks, cybersecurity
CAPT Dan Verhuel, USN
Director, Information Dominance Center for Excellence
Dr. Lonnie Wilson
Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering