Department of Cyber Security Engineering faculty

Mason researcher Vijay Shah has joined a $2 million project to develop a system to secure 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, a collaboration between Mason and Virginia Tech, Penn State University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Research Interests: Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, and Applied Cryptography

Research Interests: Security assessment of wireless network protocols, threat modeling and counter-mechanism design, cross-technology spectrum sharing, dynamic spectrum access, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. 

Research Interests: 5G/Next-G Networks, Wireless security, O-RAN, AI/ML, and Spectrum sharing

Research Interests: Information Technology, cybersecurity education

Research Interests: Computer network and web application security

Research Interests: Threat Modeling, Cyber-Physical Systems, UAV security

Research Interests: Safety and security of networked control systems overall and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Next G-based Edge services, building digital twins and vulnerability detection, and mitigation and applying formal methods to ensure cyber security

Research Interests: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; Situation Assessment

Research Interests: Probabilistic Ontologies, Decision Support Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Fusion, and Cyber-Physical Systems Security