Hume Seminar Series: Topological Approaches in Cybersecurity
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Location: Virtual via Zoom; Link provided upon registration.
Open to students, faculty, and alumni from Virginia Tech and all other IC CAE institutions and CCI affiliations.
About the Event
Topology has traditionally been viewed as a completely abstract mathematical area with applications primarily useful in solving other problems in topology. Recently, this view is changing as the development of a new subfield called computational topology. One most promising methodology in this domain is topological data analysis (TDA), which is an approach to understanding “the shape of data” that may be high-dimensional and noisy. This approach has proven useful in many real-world applications, such as medical imaging, sensor signal processing, time-series analysis, and material sciences. This talk will detail some recent work using TDA in cybersecurity-related applications.
About the Speaker
Dr. Terrence J. Moore
Terrence J. Moore received the BS and MA degrees in mathematics from American University in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and the PhD degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. He is currently a researcher in the Network Cyber & Computational Sciences Division of the US DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory. His research interests include sampling theory, constrained statistical inference, stochastic optimization, network and cyber security, geometric and topological applications in networks, and network science.
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