Faculty from the Francis College of Engineering, the Kennedy College of Sciences, and the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, plus long-running collaborators at partner universities and companies. Each profile links to the person's Google Scholar and ORCID records; citation totals are quoted from Google Scholar where the profile is public.
The center was founded on October 1, 2019 by Vinod Vokkarane, Martin Margala, Yan Luo, Sukesh Aghara, and Yuanchang Xie. Vokkarane served on the founding Board of Directors from October 2019 to July 2021 and has been director since August 2021. Margala, then Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was founding co-director until July 2021 and remains an external collaborator.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SCyPS)
Cyber-physical systems, smart grid cybersecurity and resilience, optical and 6G network optimization, AI/ML for networked systems
5,863 citations, 36 h-index on Google Scholar, Mar. 2026, not refreshed since
The center was founded on October 1, 2019 by Vinod Vokkarane, Martin Margala, Yan Luo, Sukesh Aghara, and Yuanchang Xie. Vokkarane served on the founding Board of Directors from October 2019 to July 2021 and has been director since August 2021. His group works on secure and resilient cyber-physical power systems, quality-of-transmission-aware multi-band and space-division multiplexed optical networks, and open-source tools for reproducible network research. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, serves on the editorial board of the IEEE/Optica Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, co-authored the Springer book Optical Burst Switched Networks, and has shared best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ANTS, and ONDM. He is the PI of the NSF MRI SUMMIT testbed award and a technical advisor to the UMass Lowell Applied Research Corporation (UMLARC).
Professor, Chemical (Nuclear) Engineering; Director, Nuclear Engineering Program
Nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear security and safeguards, nuclear energy for decarbonization
Co-founder of the center in 2019 and founding co-director for energy. Leads the nuclear energy and security thrust, the Massachusetts Advanced Nuclear and Fusion Energy Roadmaps, and directs the Integrated Nuclear Security and Safeguards Laboratory (INSSL) and co-directs the IAEA-funded Intercontinental Nuclear Institute.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hardware security, hardware-software co-design, embedded and microarchitectural security, cyber security
Co-PI on the SUMMIT testbed and the ONR post-disaster restoration project; leads hardware attestation and embedded security for grid devices.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Smart grid and renewable energy: modeling, situational awareness, cyber-physical resilience, machine learning applications
External center member; UMass Lowell ECE faculty 2018 to 2023. NSF CAREER awardee; Co-PI on SUMMIT and the ONR post-disaster restoration project, and a co-author on the center's smart grid papers.
2,178 citations on Google Scholar, Mar. 2026, not refreshed since
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Robotics
Computer architecture, network systems
Co-founder of the center in 2019 and founding co-director for healthcare. Leads the AI for cyber-physical control thrust; senior personnel on SUMMIT; PI of the NSF-funded campus science network the center builds on.
4,772 citations on Google Scholar, Mar. 2026, not refreshed since
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
High performance computing, parallel I/O and data-intensive computing, compiler optimizations, embedded systems
NSF CAREER awardee (2018); brings HPC, silent-data-corruption detection, and on-device stream analytics to the center's data-intensive CPS work.
1,827 citations on Google Scholar, Mar. 2026, not refreshed since
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
High-performance fault-tolerant distributed systems, blockchain-based systems, intelligent traffic and vehicular computing
NSF CAREER awardee on fault-tolerant edge computing for cyber-physical systems under cyber attack (award #2449640 at UMass Lowell, $342K from Sept 2024); Co-PI on SUMMIT. Joined UMass Lowell in 2024 after Clark University, Boston College, and Toyota InfoTechnology Center.
1,832 citations on Google Scholar, Mar. 2026, not refreshed since
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Transportation engineering, smart and connected transportation
Co-founder of the center in 2019 and founding co-director for transportation. Leads the connected transportation thrust; PI or Co-PI of the USDOT, MassDOT, and NETC transportation portfolio.
6,358 citations on Google Scholar, Mar. 2026, not refreshed since
UMass Lowell faculty who collaborate on center projects and proposals.
Partners at other universities and companies who work with the center on current projects.
