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A-4: Advanced Research in Cyber Systems

Advanced Research in Cyber Systems

Reaching Beyond Kinetic Threats

We develop, train with and utilize tools to protect, analyze, detect and monitor cyber threats from the complete spectrum of adversaries.

The Advanced Research in Cyber Systems (A-4) group solves hard problems in multiple research areas and their intersections – including security, artificial intelligence, persistent cyber threats, and critical infrastructure.

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  • A-4: Advanced Research in Cyber Systems
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  • AI Assurance

    Capabilities in: Depth Completion on Autonomous Vehicles using sparse coding, Detecting Deepfakes and other generated media, Evaluating the Adversarial Robustness of Energy-Based Models, Defense against Model Inversion Attacks, and Robust Audio Classification using Multi-layer Neural Networks.

  • Assured Computing/Computational Integrity

    Capabilities include: Quantum Key Distribution, Cryptographically Robust and Assured AI/ML, Cryptographic Structure of Optical Physical Unclonable Functions, and Authenticating Internet Routing Using Zero-knowledge Proofs.

  • Secure Systems

    Secure System Composition and Type Checking using Cryptographic Proofs Simultaneous Classification of Malware, Malware Families, and Novel Malware General-Purpose Unsupervised Cyber Anomaly Detection Electrical Grid Anomaly Detection in Smart Power Grids Evaluate Network Resiliency via Adversarial Abstraction Accelerated Network Environments for AI Cyber Arms Races

  • Lead DOE Cyberfire Incident Response Training Program

    The DOE Cyberfire Incident Response Training Program takes the lead in equipping professionals with the skills necessary to handle cybersecurity incidents effectively. This program focuses on empowering individuals to respond efficiently to cyber threats within the Department of Energy.

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  • Infrastructure Support

    We develop, administer, maintain and support highly customized data systems on multiple networks for the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, Intelligence community, and related programs.

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Projects

Smarttensors Card

SmartTensors

A groundbreaking unsupervised AI method and software for discovering latent features and predicting from big data

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Cyber Fire Card

Cyberfire

The Cyber Security Summer School prepares students for careers in cyber security.

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  • Data Sets

    • Comprehensive, Multi-Source Cyber-Security Events
    • Unified Host and Network Data Set
    • User-Computer Authentication Associations in Time
    • Hand and Glove Segmentation Dataset for DOE Glovebox Environments

Fact Sheets

A4 AI Assurance

AI Assurance

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A4 Code

Codevision

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A4 Cyberfire

Cyberfire

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A4 Data Integrity

Data Integrity Using ZKPs

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A4 Grid

Electrical Grid Research

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A4 Pathscan

Pathscan

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A4 Procvision

Procvision

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A4 Quantum

QKD

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Student Posters

Abstracts from 2024 Cyber Science Research Program Student Posters (pdf)

Afia Anjum

TT-LoRA: Democratizing AI with Accelerated LLMs

Poster (pdf)

Jessica Calvin

A Real-Time Low Amplitude Event Detection in A High Noise Signal Using Sliding Double Window Algorithm on an FPGA

Poster (pdf)

Eric Chirtel

Adversarial Sampling Through Generalized Path kernel Representations

Poster (pdf)

Adam Lehavi

MalGuardBERT: BERT for Realistic Malware Characterization

Poster (pdf)

Ahmed Mostafa

Enhancing Decompilation of Assembly Language into C/C++ Using the Llama 3 Large Language Model

Poster (pdf)

Siqiao Mu

Out-of-Distribution Detection via Kernel Representations of Neural Networks

Poster (pdf)

Refined Research

Dive into research opportunities in machine learning, deepfake detection, new generation power grids and more.