Critical Infrastructure Dependability Lab (CIDLab)
Summary
CIDLab - US is housed at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).
CIDLab - US is organized within the Non-lethal Technology Innovation Center (Directed by Dr. Glenn Shwaery, who is also a member of CIDLab)
Professor Andrzej Rucinski of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is theCIDLab Director and responsible for overall CIDLab oversight and policy.
Professor Rucinski is assisted by the following CIDLab Staff Members:
- Lab Technical Director -- Dr. Henk Spaanenburg, Associate Affiliate Professor of ECE at UNH
- Lennart E. Long, Director of CIDLab - US extension laboratory in Waltham, Massachusetts
- Dr. Thaddeus P. Kochanski, Affiliate Professor of ECE at UNH
- Dr. Barbara Rucinska, ECE at UNH
- Dr. Glenn Shwaery, UNH NTIC Director
CIDLab - US has a counterpart in the EU that is based at the Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland and is known as CIDLab-EU. CIDLab - EU is directed by Professor Andrzej Stepnowski and supported by members of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of Gdansk University of Technology (GUT).
CIDLab - EU Organizing Committee:
- Dr. Katulski, Chair
- Dr. Lasota, Acting Chair, CIDLab Academic Director
- Admiral Czajkowski, Vice Chair, Polish Navy
- Dr. Rucinski, Vice Chair, CIDLab Deputy Director
- Dr. Stepnowski, CIDLab -- EU Director
- Dr. Krawczyk, ETI Dean
- Stompor, EI2 Liaison
LINKS
- Critical Embedded Systems
- Research Areas
- Graduate Courses Offered
- Undergraduate Courses Offered
- Homeland Security Conference
- Euro 2012 Conference
- Conference - EWME 2008 — 7th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education
- WSS 2008 Conference
The Mission of CIDLab is to perform research and development, demonstrate, and evaluate new technologies, practices, and procedures that support critical infrastructure protection and the Global web of commerce is dependent upon this protection.
The laboratory serves as a research center for graduate student projects and includes the development of teaching and laboratory materials which support these efforts. Activities that were initiated in September 2006 include:
- System-on-Chip Technologies, multicore and trusted system verification
- Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array implementation of Model-based Design
- Development of testing and testbed methodologies and technologies for microelectronic systems
- Multimodal Biometrics Studies
- Pilot studies of the PLUTO Project in the Experimental Mine Barbara
- Sensor Arrays associated with the Global Ambient Intelligent Network {GAIN} concept
- Studies of the development of a formalized design methodology for Global Security Engineering in collaboration with CIDLab-EU and other academic partners
A further mission for CIDLab - US is to serve as a clearing house for technologies applicable to infrastructure protection. In this function, CIDLab - US works in concert with the Center for Infrastructure Expertise of the National Infrastructure Institute (NI2-CIE) to provide a link to state and regional agencies charged with oversight of homeland security. CIDLab also provides technical support for the European Infrastructure Institute that delivers consulting support in Global Security Engineering to commercial and governmental customers.
In addition to its own facilities, through its affiliates and partners, CIDLab has access to large scale testbeds in the US (states of New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts) that can be used to study and improve global safe commerce.
CIDLab also interacts with academic, industry and government partners through its participation in and organizing efforts toward conferences such as the IEEE Conference on Homeland Defense and Security Technologies, the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium and by participating in both TEHOSS (2005, 2006) conferences that have been held to date.