Dr. Sushil Jajodia

Today's cyber defenses are largely static. Slow deliberative processes involving testing, security patch deployment, and human-in-the-loop monitoring govern them. As a result, adversaries can systematically probe target networks, pre-plan their attacks, and ultimately persist for long times inside compromised networks and hosts. A new class of technologies, called Adaptive Cyber Defense (ACD), is being developed that presents adversaries with optimally changing attack surfaces and system configurations, forcing adversaries to continually re-assess and re-plan their cyber operations. Although these approaches (e.g., moving target defense, dynamic diversity, and bio-inspired defense) are promising, they assume stationary and stochastic, but non-adversarial, environments. To realize the full potential, we need to build the scientific foundations so that system resiliency and robustness in adversarial settings can be rigorously defined, quantified, measured, and extrapolated in a rigorous and reliable manner.

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Dr. Sushil Jajodia, Ph.D is a University Professor, BDM International Professor, and the founding director of Center for Secure Information Systems in the Volgenau School of Engineering at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. His research interests include security, privacy, databases, and distributed systems. He has authored or coauthored seven books, edited 44 books and conference proceedings, and published more than 450 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings. Four of his books have been translated in Chinese.  He is also a holder of nineteen patents.  His current research sponsors are the Army Research Office (ARO), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Security Agency (NSA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Northrop Grumman Corporation, and General Dynamics Information Technology.

Dr. Jajodia received the 1996 IFIP TC 11 Kristian Beckman award, 2000 Volgenau School of Engineering Outstanding Research Faculty Award, 2008 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award, 2011 IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award, 2015 ESORICS Outstanding Research Award, and 2016 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award. He was elected a fellow of IEEE in January 2013.  He was recognized for the most accepted papers at the 30th anniversary of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.   His h-index is 99 and Erdos number is two.Dr. Jajodia has supervised 27 doctoral dissertations. Nine of these graduates hold tenured positions at U.S. universities; four are NSF CAREER awardees, one is DoE Young Investigator awardee, and one is a Fulbright Scholar.  Two additional students are tenured at foreign universities.  The URL for his web page is http://csis.gmu.edu/jajodia

Dr. John Baras

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are transformative technologies for managing interconnected systems between a system’s physical assets and computational capabilities. Several novel opportunities and research challenges emerge in CPS from the core domains of CPS, the physical and the cyber world and their interdependencies, as well as other domains such as networking and distributed systems. Specifically, CPS are frequently distributed and often they are either large-scale or require elasticity of scale as utilization fluctuates. Most of CPS are networked, typically via the Internet or the cloud, or via special logical or physical networks, leading s to networked CPS (Net-CPS). Examples include modern factories, modern enterprises, heterogeneous wireless networks, heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, and social networks over the Internet, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the Internet of Things (IoT). Furthermore, we now live and work in a networked immersed world. That is humans are now important components of these networked systems. We call the resulting systems networked human-cyber-physical systems (Net-HCPS). The main thesis of the presentation is that the emerging technologies of IoT and 5G are indispensable enablers of both Net-CPS and Net-HCPS. We illustrate with several ubiquitous examples. The requirements for Net-HCPS design and performance evaluation suggest that a promising idea is to make the communication networks linking the components in Net-CPS, both programmable and flexible to changing operating conditions. This is precisely where Software Defined Networks (SDN) offers exciting new opportunities. SDN is a new paradigm that provides unprecedented flexibility via dynamic, programmatic (re) configuration of network resources using open standard interfaces. Neither 5G nor IoT can be efficiently and predictably implemented without Software Defined Wireless Networks (SDWN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). We describe how these inter-dependencies lead us to a Software-Defined Architecture for Net-CPS and Net-HCPS. We describe critical implications of this work for the Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0. Our work is in line with major shifts and R&D interests in major communication companies (including Nokia Bell labs, Qualcomm, Ericsson, AT&T). Finally, it has huge implications on smart cities viewed as Net-HCPS.

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John Baras received the Diploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1970, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1971 and 1973 respectively. Since 1973 he has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and in the Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computation Program, at the University of Maryland College Park. Since 1990 he holds the Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair in Systems Engineering. He was the Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), from 1985 to 1991, and is the Founding Director of the Maryland Center for Hybrid Networks (HYNET) since 1991. Since 2013, he has been a Guest Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Dr. Baras is an IEEE Life Fellow, SIAM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, NAI Fellow, IFAC Fellow, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). His major awards include the 1980 George Axelby Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society, the 2006 Leonard Abraham Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2014 Tage Erlander Guest Professorship from the Swedish Research Council, and a three year (2014-2017) Senior Hans Fischer Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. In 2016, he was inducted in the A. J. Clark School of Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame of the University of Maryland. He received the 2017 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, and the 2017 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. Professor Baras' research interests include systems and control, optimization, communication networks, signal processing and understanding, applied mathematics, robotics, computing systems and networks, network security and trust, and model-based systems engineering

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