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Cybersecurity Faculty

Brian Johnson, Ph.D., P.E.

University Distinguished Professor, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Endowed Chair in Power Engineering, CSDS Director

Gauss-Johnson 201

208-885-6902

bjohnson@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Digital Logic, Logic Circuit Laboratory, Energy Systems I, Introduction to Power Systems, Power Systems Analysis, Power Electronic Circuits, Power Systems Planning and Resources, Symmetrical Components, Transients in Power Systems, Power System Protection and Relaying, Understanding Power Quality, Utility Applications of Power Electronics
Areas of Expertise: Power electronic applications for the control of power transmission and distribution systems, power system protection, power quality, superconductivity applications in transmission and distribution, energy storage systems, real time simulation of traffic systems and intelligent transportation systems

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Jim Alves-Foss, Ph.D.

University Distinguished Professor

Janssen 225

208-885-5196

jimaf@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Programming Languages, Network Security, Computer and Network Forensics, Programming Language Theory
Areas of Expertise: computer security, formal methods, design and analysis of high assurance systems, cryptographic protocol design, security policy engineering, multi-level secure systems and MILS architecture (Multiple Independent Levels of Security)

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Gauss-Johnson 213

208-885-1550

yacinec@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Introduction to Power Systems, Power Systems Analysis
Areas of Expertise: Cyber-security for the smart grid, Power transmission and distribution systems, Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) integration in the power systems, Power state estimation

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Daniel Conte de Leon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Acting Chair

Janssen 233

208-885-6520

dcontedeleon@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Introduction to Information Assurance, Applied Security Concepts
Areas of Expertise: Development of methods and tools for the design, construction and maintenance of safe and secure computing systems, critical infrastructure protection systems

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Gauss-Johnson 205

208-885-4341

hhess@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Energy Systems I, Advanced Electronics
Areas of Expertise: Power electronics, Electric machines and drives, Power quality

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703-606-5244

kolias@uidaho.edu

Campus: Idaho Falls
Courses: Network Security
Areas of Expertise: Security and privacy for the Internet of Things (IoT), Security for Industrial Systems, Smartgrid and Critical Infrastructures, Distributed and Privacy-preserving Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Wireless communications security, Development of testbeds for security purposes

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Bhaskar Rimal, Ph.D., P.E.

Assistant Professor

Jannsen 235

brimal@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Network Security, IoT Security
Areas of Expertise: Internet of Things (IoT) Security, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Security, Wireless Communications Security, Hardware Security, Quantum Machine Learning

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Dakota Roberson, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor

CAES 278

208-533-8120

dakotar@uidaho.edu

Campus: Idaho Falls
Areas of Expertise: Power System Control (Wide-area damping using active power modulation such as HVDC, energy storage, etc., Detection and correction of latency in closed-loop controllers, Variable loop gain strategies, Coupling of distributed systems, Energy storage controller technology for smoothing, arbitrage, AGC, etc.), Statistical Signal Processing (Estimation/Detection Theory, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, Saddlepoint Approximations and other high-order approximation techniques)

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Jia (Cindy) Song, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Janssen 340

208-885-1710

jsong@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Areas of Expertise: Cybersecurity, security issues in computer systems, software and networks, high assurance computing systems design, implementation and verification

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Hedlund Building 202E

208-292-2545

sheldon@uidaho.edu

Campus: Coeur d'Alene
Areas of Expertise: software engineering, specification (formal methods) requirements engineering and analysis, information assurance, cyber and information security, cybernomics, modeling and simulation

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Ata Zadehgol, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor

Buchanan 208

208-885-9000

azadehgol@uidaho.edu

Supporting Cybersecurity Faculty

Gregory Donohoe, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

gdonohoe@uidaho.edu

Areas of Expertise: embedded and reconfigurable computing, high performance digital system design, digital image processing and analysis

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Paul Oman, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Janssen Engineering Building 233

oman@uidaho.edu

Areas of Expertise: Information assurance, critical infrastructure protection

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Mark Rounds

Instructor of Information Systems

326 J.A. Albertson Building

208-885-4199

mrounds@uidaho.edu

Dilshani Sarathchandra

Assistant Professor

Phinney Hall 114

208-885-6664

dilshanis@uidaho.edu

Campus: Moscow
Courses: Introduction to Sociology; Methods of Social Research; Responding to Risk; Science, Technology and Society; Quantitative Social Science Methods
Areas of Expertise: Science and technology studies; Science communication; Risk, judgment and decision-making; Health and medicine
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Computer Science

Physical Address:
Janssen Engineering Building 236

Mailing Address:

Computer Science
University of Idaho
875 Perimeter Drive MS 1010
Moscow, ID 83844-1010

Phone: 208-885-6592

Fax: 208-885-9052

Email: csinfo@uidaho.edu

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