Center for Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a fast-growing field with severe workforce shortage. Michigan Tech is one of the strongest contenders in cybersecurity education and research at the State of Michigan.
The Center for Cybersecurity has two main goals. The first goal is to research in the highly critical areas of information security and biometrics, privacy protection, trusted software engineering, security in mobile computing and wireless communications. The second goal is to advance the practice and public awareness of cybersecurity through various education and outreach activities.
Michigan Tech is a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE–CD) designated by the National Security Agency (NSA). The Center for Cybersecurity serves as the CAE-CD cyber center. For more information on CAE-CD, visit the following webpage:

Center Resources

Center Director

Bo Chen

  • Associate Professor, Computer Science

Center Members

  • Professor and Associate Chair, Applied Computing
  • Program Director, BS in Computer Network and System Administration
  • Affiliated Professor, Computational Science and Engineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Network
  • Computing Education
  • Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics
  • Affiliated Research Professor, Computer Science
  • Associate Professor, Applied Computing
  • Graduate Program Director, MS in Health Informatics
  • Graduate Program Director, PhD in Computational Science and Engineering

Research Interests

  • Human Health-focused ML/DL and Computer Vision
  • Large-scale Cybersecurity architectures
  • mHealth
  • Biometric development
  • Intelligent medical devices

Links of Interest

Personal Webpage

Teaching Interests

  • Cybersecurity
  • Medical/Health Informatics
  • Data Science
  • Network Engineering
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Links of Interest

Research Focus

  • Machine Learning

  • Cybersecurity

  • Professor, Computer Science
  • Graduate Program Director, Computer Science

Area of Expertise

  • Distributed Systems
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • Computer Science Education
  • Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Affiliated Professor, Applied Computing
  • PSERC Site Director and ICC CPS Center Director

Teaching Interests

  • Circuit/graph theory
  • Steady-state and dynamics of bulk power systems
  • Cyber-informed security engineering

Areas of Research Interest

Discipline: Power systems engineering

  • Power grid cybersecurity
  • Smart home and robotic technologies
  • Attack/defense combinatorics
  • Associate Professor of Management Information Systems: Data Analytics, College of Business

Teaching Interests

  • Business Process Analysis
  • AI and machine learning for business
  • Information Security
  • Systems analysis and design

Research Interests

  • Information security behavior
  • Power and control
  • Individual and organizational deviance
  • Business applications for AI and machine learning
  • Assistant Professor, Applied Computing
  • Member, ICC Center for Cybersecurity

Teaching Interests

  • Digital Forensics and Investigations
  • Blockchain and Smart Contract Applications

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise

  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology
  • Internet-of-Things (IoT)
  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud/Edge Computing
  • Next Generation Network (NGN)
  • Network Security
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Courses Taught

  • EE 4173, Comp Sys Engineering & Perform
  • EE 4272, Computer Networks

Research Interests

  • Network Security
  • Hardware Security
  • Cyber-Physical System Security
  • Deep Learning
  • Assistant Professor, Applied Computing
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Links of Interest

Areas of Expertise  

  • Machine Learning
  • Security and Privacy
  • Cloud Computing
     
  • Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Affiliated Assistant Professor, Computer Science
  • Affiliated Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Links of Interest

Teaching

  • EE/CS 5821 Computational Intelligence
  • EE4723 Network Security
  • EE4370 IoT Application and Design

Areas of Interest

  • Wireless Communications (e.g., RIS, mmWave, CPS, industrial-IoT)
  • Big Data (e.g., machine learning, smart transportation, eHealth)
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy (e.g., IoT/CPS, learning pipeline, blockchain)