CIPHER develops and implements rigorous analytical methods to assure the security and integrity of data, software, algorithms, and cyber-connected devices. Research areas of interest include assurance of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, trusted software and systems, quantum information processing,  and analysis techniques in information theory and related mathematical domains.

Publications

	Yash Shukla, Kaleb Loar, Robert Wright, Jivko Sinapov An Object-Oriented Approach for Generating Low-Fidelity Environments for Curriculum Schema Transfer Proceedings of the Scaling Robot Learning Workshop at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
	Jonathan C Balloch, Julia Kim, Jessica L Inman, Mark O. Riedl The Role of Exploration for Task Transfer in Reinforcement Learning Proceedings of the IROS 2022 Workshop on Lifelong Learning of High-level Cognitive and Reasoning Skills (2022)
	Jonathan Balloch, Zhiyu Lin, Mustafa Hussain, Aarun Srinivas, Robert Wright, Xiangyu Peng, Julia Kim, Mark Riedl NovGrid: A Flexible Grid World for Evaluating Agent Response to Novelty Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Artificial Intelligence for Open Worlds (2022)
	Saad–Falcon, Alex, Jonathan Andreasen, J. Clayton Kerce, Ryan S. Westafer, Jonathan P. Beaudeau, J. Michael McKinney, Christopher F. Barnes Abstraction and Acceleration of Tensor Processing for Element-Level Digital Arrays 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology (2022)
	Kohls, Noah D., Andy X. Zheng, Joshua Kim, Greg Mohler, Yi Chen Mazumdar Magnetic tags with unique self-assembly patterns for tracking applications. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (2021)
	Sarkar, Anirban, BN Shivakiran Bhaktha, Jonathan Andreasen. Replica symmetry breaking in a weakly scattering optofluidic random LASER Scientific Reports (2020)

People

Laboratory Director, Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research Laboratory

Alexa Harter