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ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute 
100 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623

For inquiries, contact Senior Staff Assistant, Mellissa Woodhams
585-475-2403, mxwics@rit.edu

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Ersin Uzun
Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Professor
ersin.uzun@rit.edu
585-475-5142

 

 

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Justin Pelletier
Director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
jxpics@rit.edu
585-475-2533

 

Adversarial machine learning as applied to traffic analysis, deepfake detection and generation, and image manipulation.

 

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Shanchieh Yang
Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Director of Research, ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
jay.yang@rit.edu
585-475-6434

 

Cyber Range Creative Director: Cyber Risk & Resilience Education through Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Narrative Worlds, Employing Emerging Technologies, Exciting Global Audiences
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Rob Olson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
rboics@rit.edu
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Justin Pelletier
Director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
jxpics@rit.edu
585-475-2533
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Chad Weeden
Director of Esports and CyberSecurity Range (CSR)
Dean’s Office
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
cewics@rit.edu
585-475-7306
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Justin Pelletier
Director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
jxpics@rit.edu
585-475-2533

 

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Rob Olson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
rboics@rit.edu

 

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Sarah Yarger
Project and Operations Manager
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
slyics@rit.edu
585-475-6070

 

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Fawad Ahmad
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
fawad@cs.rit.edu

 

 

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Ivona Bezakova
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
ixbvcs@rit.edu
585-475-4526

 

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Billy Brumley
Professor
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Kevin O'Sullivan Endowed Professor in Cybersecurity
Department of Cybersecurity
bbbics@rit.edu

 

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Zachary Butler
Interim Department Chair
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
zxbvcs@rit.edu
585-475-6155

 

Embedded Device Security; Network and System Security; Applied Cryptography; Privacy

 

Data integrity and privacy in Edge Computing Systems and 5G infrastructure. Hardware Trojans, Machine Learning and Nature-inspired solutions to hardware security and trust

 

 

 

 

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Yidan Hu
Assistant Professor
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
yidan.hu@rit.edu
Data privacy, and network and distributed system security

 

Security competitions for education, covert communications, IoT/SCADA security

 

Machine Learning, AI for Social Impact, Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science

 

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Sunwoong Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
sskeme@rit.edu

 

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Daniel Krutz
Associate Professor
Department of Software Engineering
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
dxkvse@rit.edu
585-475-2896
Self-adaptive systems, decision-support systems, and computing education. Teaching secure software development, outreach to women/girls in cybersecurity

 

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Minseok Kwon
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
mxkvcs@rit.edu
585-475-4524
Packet forwarding, SDN, Container networking, Datacenter networks, Network security, Filter technologies, Distributed systems, and IoT

 

Cryptographic engineering, secure communication technologies, reconfigurable computing, high performance computing, hardware-software systems

 

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Andy Meneely
Associate Professor
Department of Software Engineering
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Undergraduate Program Director
andy.meneely@rit.edu
585-475-7829
Empirical software engineering using machine learning and data mining, software security, collaborative software development, metrics and measurement

 

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Sumita Mishra
Professor
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity
sumita.mishra@rit.edu
585-475-4475
Critical infrastructure protection, including smart grid security and privacy, communications in the future electric grid, anonymity, and resilience metrics. Gamification in cybersecurity education, critical infrastructure, graduate education.

 

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Tae Oh
Professor
School of Information
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Strategic Initiatives and Innovation Director
thoics@rit.edu
585-475-7642
Vehicular Area Networks, data acquisition and analytics, mobile device security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, sensor networks and assistive technology (Smart Cane)

 

 

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Rob Olson
Senior Lecturer
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
rboics@rit.edu
Penetration testing, web and mobile application security, and privacy

 

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Yin Pan
Professor
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
yin.pan@rit.edu
Adversarial machine learning in image recognition and in intelligent malware detection using memory forensics, solid-state drive forensics challenges. Gamification in cybersecurity education, Ph.D. training and education, information security audits

 

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Justin Pelletier
Director of the GCI Cyber Range and Training Center
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
jxpics@rit.edu
585-475-2533

 

 

Cryptography, Combinatorial Computing

 

Wireless systems and communications (PHY-layer) security, connected vehicle and IoT trust management

 

 

Human factors in complex and dynamic systems, mental workload, and human error and reliability

 

Security, Machine Learning, Knowledge Graphs, Explainability, Semantic Technology, Autonomous Vehicles, Large Scale Networks.

 

Abstract algebra, network science, and machine learning with applications in information processing and cybersecurity

 

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Leon Reznik
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
lrvcs@rit.edu
585-475-7210
Security and data quality evaluation; intelligent systems and sensor networks design, machine learning and neural networks techniques, Big Data analysis. Data quality and security, automated quiz generation

 

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Carlos R. Rivero
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
crrvcs@rit.edu
585-475-2979
Computer-aided program comprehension, instructor analytics, K-12 outreach

 

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David Schwartz
Director of the School of Interactive Games and Media
School of Interactive Games and Media
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
david.i.schwartz@rit.edu
585-475-2763

 

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Naveen Sharma
Department Chair
Department of Software Engineering
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
nxsvse@rit.edu
585-475-2472

 

Security competitions for education, penetration testing

 

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Alireza Vahid
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Gleason Endowed Professor
arveme@rit.edu

 

Adversarial machine learning as applied to traffic analysis, deepfake detection and generation, and image manipulation.

 

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Shanchieh Yang
Professor
Department of Computer Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Director of Research, ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
jay.yang@rit.edu
585-475-6434
Machine learning, attack modeling, and simulation systems to provide predictive analysis of cyber attacks, enabling anticipatory or proactive cyber defense

 

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Bo Yuan
Professor
Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
bo.yuan@rit.edu
585-475-4468
CyberCorps Scholarships for Service (SFS); Department Chair of Computing Security; cyber analytics

 

 

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Weijie Zhao
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
wjzvcs@rit.edu
585-475-2118

 

 

Privacy, program analysis, software compliance, and machine learning

 

Hardware-oriented security
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Sarah Yarger
Project and Operations Manager
ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
slyics@rit.edu
585-475-6070