Levi McClenny, a doctoral candidate is working with Dr. Ulisses Braga-Neto on a research project using state-of-the-art machine learning tools to gain a better overall picture of what happens at the microstructure level in materials.

The electric grid is something that we may take for granted in our daily lives until an outage occurs. Ikponmwosa “Iyke” Idehen is a doctoral student working with Dr. Thomas Overbye on a two-part research project to better understand the dynamics of the electric power grid to avoid these types of disturbances from happening.

Until recently, cyber attacks were primarily targeted toward software, but they have now shifted toward the deeper layers of hardware, which poses new challenges to defenders. Instead of simply ensuring that the software is robustly secure, researchers now have to find ways to creatively secure the underlying hardware as well.