Stevens is committed to advancing research initiatives that provide solutions for complex and challenging issues faced every day. The Secure Systems thrust focuses these efforts on Maritime and Port Security, Cybersecurity, and Communication Networks. Maritime and Port Security keep our geographical borders safe, ports monitored, and trade networks efficient. Cyber security and communication advancements ensure our online transactions and technologies are kept private, secure and free from intruders. As technology continues to evolve, so must the methods of security monitoring and control.

The Secure Systems thrust maintains success in these critical areas through the innovations of our faculty, unique laboratories, shared facilities and research centers such as the National Center for Secure & Resilient Maritime Commerce, a Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, and the Center for the Advancement of Secure Systems and Information Assurance, designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research by the National Security Agency/Central Security Service.

Faculty research is an integral part of these security solutions, and Stevens Professors are consistently at the forefront of new technology development. Dr. Haibo He is conducting Computational Intelligence research that has implications of incorporating brain-like intelligence into computer system decision making, essentially developing a learning computer. On the Maritime and Port Security front, the Center for Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce is conducting vessel detection research that will provide for a “new understanding and new processes for receiving and analyzing large maritime area data from multi-satellite and multi-frequency sensors such as Synthetic Aperture Radar and electro-optical sensors.” In the Wireless Network Laboratory, Dr. Cristina Comaniciu works to develop a Green Radio that reduces Green House Gas Emissions for the Wireless Cellular Networks, as well as Cooperative wireless intruder detection in wireless sentinel networks research.

This is a small sampling of the exciting work being conducted under the Secure Systems umbrella, and it highlights the unique research opportunities offered at Stevens. For more information, and to see faculty research highlights, visit our Secure Systems research page!

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