CIERTA’s affiliated faculty have a wide array of individual expertise and experience in different research areas in cybersecurity and privacy.
CIERTA has excellent faculty members who are internationally renowned faculty conducting research almost on all sub-areas of cybersecurity spanning different fields. These sub-areas are listed below along with the covered topics and corresponding faculty names.
| Name of Area | Covered Topics | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| IoT/CPS Security | Smart grid, drones, smart homes, vehicles, and smart cities. | Raju Rangaswami, Ruimin Sun, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Christian Poellabauer, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Kemal Akkaya, Selcuk Uluagac, Amin Kharraz, S. S. Iyengar. |
| Network Security | DoS attacks, protocol security, wireless security, social engineering, APTs, key management, Internet security, and zero-trust networking. | Kemal Akkaya, Jason Liu, Xuyu Wang, Selcuk Uluagac, Niki Pissinou, Fahrad Shirani, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, S. S. Iyengar, Julio Ibarra |
| System Security | Operating systems security, malware analysis, and web security. | Amin Kharraz, Selcuk Uluagac,Kemal Akkaya, Mark Finlayson,Ruimin Sun, Christian Poellabauer, Raju Rangaswami,S. S. Iyengar |
| AI Security | Adversarial machine learning, LLM security, Model Protection, Explainability, Ethics, and regulation. | Ruimin Sun, Selcuk Uluagac, Fahrad Shirani, Yanzhao Wu, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Christian Poellabauer, Kemal Akkaya, Raju Rangaswami, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Tauhidur Rahman, Niki Pissinou, S. S. Iyengar |
| Hardware Security | Tamper Proof Devices, Trojans, and PUFs. | Tauhidur Rahman, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman |
| Software and Application Security | Software testing, secure programming, malware/ransomware, and software reverse engineering. | Amin Kharraz, Selcuk Uluagac,Ruimin Sun, Christian Poellabauer, S. S. Iyengar |
| Theory / Cryptography | Information theory, formal methods, trust models, and post-quantum crypto. | Farhad Shirani,S. S. Iyengar |
| Data/Storage Security | Access control, data anonymization, database security, and cloud security. | Raju Rangaswami, Ruimin Sun, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini,Christian Poellabauer |
| Privacy Theory & Technologies | Homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation, differential privacy, and zero-knowledge proofs. | Kemal Akkaya, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Yanzhao Wu, Fahrad Shirani |
| Name of Area | Covered Topics | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| Usable Security & Privacy | Security and privacy policies, user perspectives, usability, protection against ML, anonymity, privacy-preserving protocols, and privacy-preserving ML. | Selcuk Uluagac, Kemal Akkaya, Bogdan Carbunar, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Ruimin Sun, Aslihan (Akkaya) Hahn, Xuyu Wang, Hadi Amini, Christian Poellabauer, Yanzhao Wu, Fahrad Shirani, Niki Pissinou |
| Misinformation / Disinformation | NLP/data mining, threat intelligence, online media security, and discourse analysis. | Amin Kharraz, Selcuk Uluagac, Aslihan (Akkaya) Hahn, Mark Finlayson, Sukumar Ganapati, Bogdan Carbunar, S. S. Iyengar, Donavon A. Johnson |
| Digital Forensics | Network forensics, multimedia forensics, deepfakes, cyber-crime, investigation process, and provenance. | Alexander Pons, Selcuk Uluagac, Kemal Akkaya, Kenneth G. Furton, S. S. Iyengar, Raju Rangaswami, Amin Kharraz |
| Blockchain / Fintech | Blockchain security, cryptocurrencies, DAOs, incentives, and fintech apps. | Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Hannibal Travis, Donavon A. Johnson, Kemal Akkaya, Selcuk Uluagac, Sukumar Ganapati, Bogdan Carbunar, S. S. Iyengar |
| Security Policies | Policy development, security governance, GDPR, security and society, regulation, and compliance. | Sukumar Ganapati, Kemal Akkaya, Selcuk Uluagac, Donavon A. Johnson |
| Cybersecurity Risk | Risk management, cyber insurance, and risk assessment. | Yan Chen, Hadi Amini, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Sukumar Ganapati,S. S. Iyengar, Donavon A. Johnson |
| Cybersecurity Education | Learning models, game-based cybersecurity, workforce development, and cybersecurity leadership. | Hadi Amini, Yanzhao Wu, Kemal Akkaya, Selcuk Uluagac, Jason Liu, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Sukumar Ganapati, Tauhidur Rahman, Amin Kharraz, S. S. Iyengar, Donavon A. Johnson |
CIERTA’s affiliated faculty has the following specific technical expertise to collaborate in research and offer their contributions.