Summary
Duminda Wijesekera is a professor in the Cyber Security Engineering Department at George Mason University. He was the inaugural chairman of the Cyber Security Engineering Department until December 2022, and a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) between 2007-2022. He leads the Mason Innovation Laboratory at Mason Square. He is also a fellow at the Potomac Institute of Policy Studies.
His current research addresses multiple areas. The first is the security and safety of cyber-physical systems. Research in this area includes the safety and security of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that include trains, aircraft, and connected/automated automobiles. Another area is digital forensics. Research in digital forensics includes creating potential scenario from evidence and creating frameworks for argumentations, error management of forensic data, and adding odds ratio between different scenarios that fit the evidence. A third area is applying formal methods to CPS safety and security.
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About
Bio
He was a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) between 2007-2022 and a fellow at the Potomac Institute of Policy Studies in Arlington, Virginia. Before joining Mason as an assistant professor in 1999, he was a senior systems engineer in the Military Avionics and Space Systems divisions of Honeywell Inc. in Clearwater, Florida. He has been a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Army High-Performance Research Center at the University of Minnesota. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and a PhD in mathematical logic from Cornell University in 1990.
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
- PhD, Mathematical Logic, Cornell University
Research Interests
- Safety and security of networked control systems overall
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS),
- Next G-based Edge services,
- Building digital twins and vulnerability detection
- Mitigation and applying formal methods to ensure cybersecurity
Research
2014 – 2015: Using the Policy Machine to Enforce Access to Health Records. Funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
2013 – 2014: Mapping GSM-R Into US Wireless Frequency Intervals for High-Speed Rail. Funded by the US Department of Transportation (US.
2014 – 2014: A Survey and Taxonomy on the Roots of Trust in Cyber-Physical Systems. Funded by Cyber Security Research Alliance.
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Wikipedia
Duminda Wijesekera is an American computer scientist of Sri Lankan descent. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University and acting chair of Cyber Security Engineering Department.[1] He is also a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1997) and another PhD in Mathematical Logic from Cornell University (1990).[2] He has a Bachelors in Mathematics from University of Colombo. He also holds a courtesy appointments at the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, NIST. He has published more than 100 research papers in the area of cybersecurity. He was also part of the team that investigated Metro Blue Line derailment in Washington DC.[3]
Wijesekera also leads the Laboratory of Radio and RADAR Engineering (RARE) which is a collaboration between academia, industry and government.[4] In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.[5] He is also considered to be an expert in identifying money laundering using mathematical models and has done research on linking organ trafficking to terrorist networks.[6]
Publications
- Michael, James Bret, Doron Drusinsky, and Duminda Wijesekera. "Formal Methods in Cyberphysical Systems." Computer 54, no. 09 (2021): 25–29.
- Wang, Lingyu, Duminda Wijesekera, and Sushil Jajodia. "A logic-based framework for attribute based access control." In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Formal methods in security engineering, pp. 45–55. 2004.
- Ammann, Paul, Duminda Wijesekera, and Saket Kaushik. "Scalable, graph-based network vulnerability analysis." In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 217–224. 2002.
- Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia and Duminda Wijesekera, Preserving Privacy for OnLine Analytical processing, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
References
- ^ "Commonwealth Cyber Initiative at GMU". Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Duminda Wijesekera GMU Official Page". Volgenau School of Engineering. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Liss-Roy, Anna (27 October 2021). "Metro Blue Line defect that caused derailment could have been 'catastrophic,' NTSB says". WUSA. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "BlackHat USA 2019". Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ "Duminda Wijesekera, Ph.D., Fellow". Potomac Institute of Policy Studies. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ^ Gregory, Katherine (3 January 2017). "Syrian refugees selling their organs on the black market to get to Europe: experts". ABC News. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
External links
- Duminda Wijesekera publications indexed by Google Scholar
