Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment Models for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Infrastructure in the Commonwealth
Dr. Ali Raz
KEY INTERESTS
Collaborative nature of autonomy; Methodologies of integrating autonomous systems; Complex adaptive systems; Information fusion; Artifical intelligence and machine learning technologies
APPOINTMENTS/AFFILIATIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Operations Research, George Mason University
Assistant Director, C4I & Cyber Center
Co-Chair, INCOSE Complex Systems Working Group
ACADEMIC DEGREES
BS, Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
MS, Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University
PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University
CYBERSECURITY VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT MODELS FOR SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE COMMONWEALTH
This research addresses the cyber vulnerabilities that threaten safe and reliable operation of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), and their strong economic potential, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Through the identification and development of assessment models to study vulnerabilities in a notional affordable sUAS infrastructure, this project will help derive the commonwealth infrastructure requirements to enable safe and reliable sUAS operations. Fundamental to this object, this project identifies and studies the cybersecurity risk(s) that common communication technologies pose for sUAS operations, and subsequently develop guidelines for the mitigations of these risks.