The Center for Secure Cyberspace (CSC) is a collaboration between Louisiana Tech University
and Louisiana State University created to assist faculty members in their research
and to support federal, state, and private sector cyberspace security needs in collaboration
with the Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) in Bossier City, Louisiana. The CSC also capitalizes
upon world-class resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative and Louisiana
Tech’s Institution for Micromanufacturing. The Core Research Team and their students
have collaboratively worked on rare and event pattern detection, malware and botnets,
anomaly detection, cyber forensics, information fusion, secure information dissemination,
grid computation, interactive visualization, adversarial cyber-behavioral biometrics,
unmanned aerial vehicles, and sensor networks.
Faculty and Staff
Miguel Gates
Program Chair and Lecturer of Cyber Engineering; Lecturer of Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineering Technology
Homepage: https://works.bepress.com/miguel-gates/
Contact Information: Nethken Hall 145 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-2147
Fax: (318) 257-2562
Email: mgates@latech.edu
Jinko Kanno
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Graph Theory, Matroid Theory, and Combinatorics
Homepage: http://www2.latech.edu/~jkanno
Contact Information: George T. Madison Hall 350 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-3329
Fax: (318) 257-2182
Email: jkanno@latech.edu
Ankunda Kiremire
Program Chair and Lecturer of Computer Science
Contact Information: Integrated Engineering and Science Building 221 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-2262
Fax: (318) 257-2562
Email: kiremire@latech.edu
Manki Min
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Homepage: https://works.bepress.com/manki-min/
Contact Information: Nethken Hall 245 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-2916
Fax: (318) 257-2562
Email: mankimin@latech.edu
Mike O’Neal
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Distributed Online Broadcast Technologies; Developing Courseware and Innovative Approaches
for Computer Science Education
Homepage: www.mikeoneal.com
Contact Information: Nethken Hall 115 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-2931
Fax: (318) 257-4922
Email: mike@latech.edu
Andrey Timofeyev
Lecturer of Computer Science
Contact Information: Integrated Engineering and Science Building 215 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-2161
Fax: (318) 257-2562
Email: andtimo@latech.edu
Director of Computer Science, Cyber Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics and Statistics; Professor of Mathematics
Contact Information: Nethken Hall 121 | Tech Box 10
Phone: (318) 257-2161
Fax: (318) 257-2562
Email: gturner@latech.edu
Cybersecurity Research Laboratory
The Cyberspace Research Laboratory at Louisiana Tech is a state of the art facility
for cyber centric experimentation. It has advanced virtualization, visualization as
well as network capabilities. It also includes a micro aerial vehicle and wireless
sensor network laboratory and an FPGA laboratory. The virtualization infrastructure
contains 96 CPU cores, 864 GB of memory, and nearly 20 TB of storage that can support
over 400 virtual machines. To visualize complex data, our visualization system gives
researchers the ability to render large datasets and run graphical simulations on
a high-resolution tiled display. The visualization wall is constructed using 15 Dell
30-inch monitors in a 5×3 configuration. An eight-node Dell Precision Workstation
cluster powers the 61-megapixel tiled-display system with dual nVidia Quadro FX 5800
graphics cards in each computer. As for network capabilities, the advanced networking
lab offers a variety of Cisco equipment for testing different types of networks.