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'''Robert K. Cunningham''' is an American ] and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure|url=https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/cmu-official-named-vice|website=utimes}}</ref> He is a ] of the ].{{r|ieee}}
'''Robert Kevin Cunningham''' (born 1963) is an American scientist and engineer.


==Career== == Education ==
⚫ He earned an ] in Electrical Engineering from ], which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of ], where he earned his Ph.D.{{cn|date=October 2021}}
In 2021, Cunningham became the Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/cmu-official-named-vice|title=CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure|website=utimes}}</ref> at the ], while maintaining connections to ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/directory/bios/cunningham-rob.html|title=Rob Cunningham|website=www.cylab.cmu.edu}}</ref> He worked at the ] of ] from 2018 to 2021, and served as director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the ] (2019–2020). Prior to this, he spent twenty-five years at the federally funded research laboratory ], where his efforts were critical to building their research in ].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zissman|first=Marc A.|last2=Cunningham|first2=Robert K.|date=2016|title=Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory|url=https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/page/doc/2018-05/22_1_1_Cunningham.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=15 August 2021|website=ll.mit.edu/}}</ref> While at the ], he helped promote the promise of quantum computing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=525768|title=The Promise of Quantum Computing|website=resources.sei.cmu.edu}}</ref>


== Career ==
He has given his time to many professional endeavors (e.g.,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2012/06234446/12OmNzt0IL3|title=CSDL &#124; IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org}}</ref>), including serving as the Chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cybersecurity.ieee.org/|title=IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative|website=cybersecurity.ieee.org}}</ref> and co-founding (with Prof. Michael Hicks<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/people/mwh|title=Mike Hicks &#124; UMIACS|website=www.umiacs.umd.edu}}</ref>) the ] Secure Development Conference (SECDEV).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secdev.ieee.org/2021/home/|title=Home - IEEE Secure Development Conference|website=secdev.ieee.org}}</ref>
He worked for twenty-five years at the ], principally on ].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Zissman|first1=Marc A.|last2=Cunningham|first2=Robert K.|date=2016|title=Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory|url=https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/page/doc/2018-05/22_1_1_Cunningham.pdf|access-date=15 August 2021|website=ll.mit.edu/}}</ref> From 2018 to 2021 he worked on ] at the ] of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=525768|title=The Promise of Quantum Computing|website=resources.sei.cmu.edu}}</ref> He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the ] (2019–2020).{{cn|date=October 2021}}


In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the ],<ref name=":0" /> while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rob Cunningham|url=https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/directory/bios/cunningham-rob.html|website=www.cylab.cmu.edu}}</ref>
==Education==
⚫ He earned an ] in Electrical Engineering from ], which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of ], where he earned his Ph.D.


He was made a ] of the ] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2017/seven-from-mit-named-2017-ieee-fellows-0105|title=Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows|website=MIT News &#124; Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> He has served as chair of the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cybersecurity.ieee.org/|title=IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative|website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2012/06234446/12OmNzt0IL3|title=CSDL &#124; IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org}}</ref>
==Awards==

Dr. Cunningham is a Fellow of the ].<ref></ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2017/seven-from-mit-named-2017-ieee-fellows-0105|title=Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows|website=MIT News &#124; Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> In 2015, he received an MIT Excellence Award,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hr.mit.edu/rewards/recipient/award-recipients/2015/bringing-out-best/robert-k-cunningham|title=Robert K. Cunningham &#124; MIT Human Resources|website=hr.mit.edu}}</ref> Bringing out the Best, from the ]. In addition to organizing and reviewing for many conferences and publications, he served as an NSA Science of Security "Distinguished Expert" reviewer<ref></ref>
According to ] he has an ] of 13.{{r|scopus}}


== Personal life == == Personal life ==
He is married to ], with whom he has two sons (born in 1994 and 1996).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimonth956brow/brownalumnimonth956brow_djvu.txt|title=Brown Alumni Monthly Archives|website=archive.org}}</ref> He is married to ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimonth956brow/brownalumnimonth956brow_djvu.txt|title=Brown Alumni Monthly Archives|website=archive.org|date=March 1995 }}</ref>


== Selected publications == == References ==
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Dr. Cunningham has written broadly on computer security, covering multiple important topic areas. This section contains a sampling.


<ref name=ieee>. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.</ref>
=== Measuring and Understanding Computer Security and Privacy ===


<ref name=scopus>. Scopus. Accessed October 2021.</ref>
Lippmann, R.P., Fried, D.J., Graf, I., Haines, J.W., Kendall, K.R., McClung, D., Weber, D., Webster, S.E., Wyschogrod, D., Cunningham, R.K. and Zissman, M.A., 2000, January. Evaluating intrusion detection systems: The 1998 DARPA off-line intrusion detection evaluation. In Proceedings DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition. DISCEX'00 (Vol. 2, pp. 12-26). IEEE.


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Lippmann, R.P. and Cunningham, R.K., 1999. Guide to creating stealthy attacks for the 1999 DARPA off-line intrusion detection evaluation. Computer Networks, 34(4), pp.579-595.


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Pfleeger, S. and Cunningham, R., 2010. Why measuring security is hard. IEEE Security & Privacy, 8(4), pp.46-54.


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Rossey, L.M., Cunningham, R.K., Fried, D.J., Rabek, J.C., Lippmann, R.P., Haines, J.W. and Zissman, M.A., 2002, March. LARIAT: Lincoln adaptable real-time information assurance testbed. In Proceedings, ieee aerospace conference (Vol. 6, pp. 6-6). IEEE.
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Shay, R., Blumenthal, U., Gadepally, V., Hamlin, A., Mitchell, J.D. and Cunningham, R.K., 2019. Don't Even Ask: Database Access Control through Query Control. ACM SIGMOD Record, 47(3), pp.17-22.
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Spensky, C., Stewart, J., Yerukhimovich, A., Shay, R., Trachtenberg, A., Housley, R. and Cunningham, R.K., 2016. SoK: Privacy on Mobile Devices-It's Complicated. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2016(3), pp.96-116.
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Weaver, N., Paxson, V., Staniford, S. and Cunningham, R., 2003, October. A taxonomy of computer worms. In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid Malcode (pp. 11-18).

Yu, T.H., Fuller, B.W., Bannick, J.H., Rossey, L.M. and Cunningham, R.K., 2008. Integrated environment management for information operations testbeds. In VizSEC 2007 (pp. 67-83). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Zhivich, M. and Cunningham, R.K., 2009. The real cost of software errors. IEEE Security & Privacy, 7(2), pp.87-90.

=== Leveraging Static Analysis and Machine Learning for Computer Security ===
Boyer, S., Dain, O. and Cunningham, R., 2005, March. Stellar: A fusion system for scenario construction and security risk assessment. In Third IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance (IWIA'05) (pp. 105-116). IEEE.

Cunningham, R.K., Lippmann, R.P., Kassay, D., Webster, S.E. and Zissman, M.A., 1999, November. Host-based bottleneck verification efficiently detects novel computer attacks. In IEEE Military Communications Conference Proceedings.

Khazan, R., Rabek, J., Lewandowski, S. and Cunningham, R., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. Technique for detecting executable malicious code using a combination of static and dynamic analyses. U.S. Patent Application 10/464,828.

Lippmann, R.P. and Cunningham, R.K., 2000. Improving intrusion detection performance using keyword selection and neural networks. Computer networks, 34(4), pp.597-603.

Streilein, W.W., Cunningham, R.K. and Webster, S.E., 2001, June. Improved detection of low-profile probe and denial-of-service attacks. In Proceedings of the 2001 Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Computer Intrusion Detection.

=== Cryptographically-protected search and computation ===

Fuller, B., Varia, M., Yerukhimovich, A., Shen, E., Hamlin, A., Gadepally, V., Shay, R., Mitchell, J.D. and Cunningham, R.K., 2017, May. Sok: Cryptographically protected database search. In 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 172-191). IEEE.

Kepner, J., Gadepally, V., Michaleas, P., Schear, N., Varia, M., Yerukhimovich, A. and Cunningham, R.K., 2014, September. Computing on masked data: a high performance method for improving big data veracity. In 2014 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Shen, E., Varia, M., Cunningham, R.K. and Vesey, W.K., 2015. Cryptographically secure computation. Computer, 48(4), pp.78-81.

=== Analysis Tools ===
Lippmann, R., Ingols, K., Scott, C., Piwowarski, K., Kratkiewicz, K., Artz, M. and Cunningham, R., 2006, October. Validating and restoring defense in depth using attack graphs. In MILCOM 2006-2006 IEEE Military Communications Conference (pp. 1-10). IEEE.

Williams, T., Kelley, C., Bröker, H.B., Campbell, J., Cunningham, R., Denholm, D., Elber, E., Fearick, R., Grammes, C. and Hart, L., 2017. Gnuplot 4.6: An interactive plotting program, 2012. URL http://www. gnuplot. info, 56.

== References ==
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Latest revision as of 04:50, 31 July 2024

American computer scientist
Robert K. Cunningham
Alma mater
SpouseBarbara Shinn-Cunningham
AwardsFellow, IEEE
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer security, machine learning, electrical engineering
Institutions

Robert K. Cunningham is an American computer scientist and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Education

He earned an Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of Boston University, where he earned his Ph.D.

Career

He worked for twenty-five years at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, principally on computer security. From 2018 to 2021 he worked on quantum computing at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the University of Maryland (2019–2020).

In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh, while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University.

He was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007. He has served as chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative.

According to Scopus he has an h-index of 13.

Personal life

He is married to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.

References

  1. ^ "CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure". utimes.
  2. Robert Cunningham. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.
  3. Zissman, Marc A.; Cunningham, Robert K. (2016). "Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory" (PDF). ll.mit.edu/. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  4. "The Promise of Quantum Computing". resources.sei.cmu.edu.
  5. "Rob Cunningham". www.cylab.cmu.edu.
  6. "Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  7. "IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative". IEEE.
  8. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org.
  9. Cunningham, Robert K.. Scopus. Accessed October 2021.
  10. "Brown Alumni Monthly Archives". archive.org. March 1995.
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