Computer Science Distinguished Speaker

CIP Challenges in an Interconnected World

When: Friday, February 5, 2016
Where: PGH 232
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Devasirvatham: Director, Wireless National User Facility

Host: Dr. Verma

The Idaho National Laboratory is a leading Department Of Energy lab, involved in solving national problems in Nuclear Energy, Non-Proliferation, and Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), such as communications, the grid, Energy, and Security.  Modern challenges and threats to critical infrastructure are accelerated by the increasing use of the cyber infrastructure, wireless communications, the interconnected world that results, and changes in these paradigms.  Public Safety, which has a key role in critical infrastructure protection, is also challenged by trends. This talk will touch on these challenges, the INL response in some of these areas, and discuss the public safety challenge as an example of an area INL is working on.  An interactive discussion in envisaged.

Bio:

Daniel Devasirvatham is the Director of the Wireless National User Facility at the Idaho National Laboratory.  He is interested in wireless, spectrum sharing, Public Safety Broadband, the smart grid, and Critical Infrastructure Protection.  He looks to present INL’s capabilities in these areas.  Daniel has worked with public safety for more than 13 years.  He heads the Public Safety special interest group of the WinnForum and also contributes to the Spectrum Innovation Committee Steering Group and the Cognitive Radio working group.   Daniel was a Vice-President at SAIC and, prior to 2002, researched mobile communications as the Director of the Advanced Wireless Technologies group at Bellcore/Telcordia, where he made pioneering measurements in radio communications.  He has published on radio propagation, spectrum sharing, wireless/cyber security and CIP.  Dr. Devasirvatham has more than 40 years of experience, and patents in wireless communications.