UT Dallas Joins New USDOT National Cybersecurity Center To Help Protect Connected Vehicles, Drones, and More
Via Dallas Innovates — TraCR—slated to receive $20 million from the DOT over five years—will use everything from adversarial machine learning to blockchain to help fight cyberattacks on our transportation system.
From new cars and autonomous vehicles on our roads to drones in our skies, America’s transportation system has become increasingly connected—and dangerously vulnerable to cyberattacks. Now UT Dallas is joining an effort to patch up those vulnerabilities through the newly formed National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency.
UTD is one of nine universities, led by Clemson University, that have been selected to participate in the new center, also known as TraCR.
TraCR—slated to receive $20 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation over five years—is just one of 39 University Transportation Centers researching ways to promote “the safe, efficient and environmentally sound movement of goods and people,” UTD noted.
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham will lead UTD’s team
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair in Engineering and Computer Science at UTD’s Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, says the university is looking forward to “developing solutions to the challenging problems in transportation systems security.”
“We’re pleased that Clemson University invited us to join their team,” Thuraisingham added in a statement.
The founder and senior strategist for UTD’s Cyber Security Research and Education Institute, Thuraisingham will serve as principal investigator at UTD and as one of the national center’s associate directors.
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Source | Dallas Innovates | Written by David Seeley
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