Volgenau School of Engineering

Ariela Sofer is the Divisional Dean for the Volgenau School of Engineering and a professor in the Systems Engineering and Operations Research department.

Research Interests: Ultra-small Satellite Design and Engineering, Resilient Satellite Bus Architectures, Antenna Design and Satellite Communications, Real-Time Embedded Systems, Rad-hard Embedded Software

Research Interests: Safety and security of networked control systems overall and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Next G-based Edge services, building digital twins and vulnerability detection, and mitigation and applying formal methods to ensure cyber security

Research Interests: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; Situation Assessment

Research Interests: Information fusion, Bayesian networks, distributed sensor networks, decision making under uncertainty, explainable AI

Research Interests: Air Transportation, Decision Support Systems, Optimization, Probabilistic Modeling, Simulation, Stochastic Processes

Research Interests: Simulation

Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering, soil-structure interaction, clay surface science, environmental geotechnics, electrokinetics, foundations.

Research Interests: Electronics

Research Interests: Ultra-low-power cryptographic hardware design, side-channel analysis, computer arithmetic, efficient cryptographic algorithms, and ubiquitous computing