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In advance of his book ‘Confronting Cyber Risk,’ engineer Gregory Falco discusses how and why organizations should incorporate cybersecurity into everyday business and planning In 2020, a hack believed to have been perpetrated by the Russian intelligence service compromised more than 100 clients of the SolarWinds network management company. Affected organizations included tech giants Microsoft,…

Lauren Gardner, associate professor of civil and systems engineering, recently was appointed as the inaugural Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor. This endowed professorship, established this year by Sandra and Alton B. Cleveland, Jr., supports exceptional faculty with a preference for those whose research focuses on sustainability and resiliency of the built environment and the multiple…

Gregory Falco, assistant professor in the department, recently contributed insight to the Safe Cities Index 2021. The Safe Cities Index 2021 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, and is based on the fourth iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 76 indicators covering digital, health, infrastructure, personal and environmental security. Findings…

As highly automated systems are becoming more and more popular, assurance challenges have become increasingly visible through high-profile crashes and incidents. In a recently published article for Nature Machine Intelligence, Gregory Falco, assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and a team of collaborators…

Gregory Falco, an assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and a member of the Institute for Assured Autonomy, is part of a team recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a taxonomy for Artificial Intelligence risks that can be used to…

Congratulations to CaSE Associate Professor Lauren Gardner who recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to support the management and development of the COVID-19 online interactive dashboard hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE).   The dashboard was first released publicly on January 22, 2020 to…

The team plans to develop statistical models that could reveal patterns explaining COVID-19’s rapid spread.

Lauren Gardner, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, recently has worked with a team of researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, Queensland University of Technology, and Queensland Health to develop a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases, like dengue, and track them to their destination.…

A new study ranks the US counties at highest risk of a measles outbreak, with the areas surrounding Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami topping the list.