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'''Robert K. Cunningham''' is an American ] and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the ]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure|url=https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/cmu-official-named-vice|website=utimes}}</ref> He is a ] of the ].{{r|ieee}}, and a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pitt ECE Faculty |url=https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/people/faculty/robert-cunningham/ |access-date=Jan 5, 2025}}</ref> and the department of informatics and networked systems,<ref>{{Cite web |title=DINS Faculty |url=https://www.dins.pitt.edu/people/robert-k-cunningham |access-date=Jan 5, 2025}}</ref> where he performs research on computer security and artificial intelligence.
'''Robert Kevin Cunningham''' (born 1963) is an American scientist and engineer.


==Career== == Education ==
⚫ He earned an ] in Electrical Engineering from ], which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of ], where he earned his Ph.D.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cunningham |first=Robert |title=Learning and recognizing patterns of visual motion, color and form |publisher=Boston University |year=1998 |location=Boston, MA}}</ref>
In 2021, Cunningham became the Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.utimes.pitt.edu/news/cmu-official-named-vice|title=CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure|website=utimes}}</ref> at the ], while maintaining connections to ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/directory/bios/cunningham-rob.html|title=Rob Cunningham|website=www.cylab.cmu.edu}}</ref> He worked at the ] of ] from 2018 to 2021, and served as director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the ] (2019–2020). Prior to this, he spent twenty-five years at the federally funded research laboratory ], where his efforts were critical to building their research in ].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Zissman|first=Marc A.|last2=Cunningham|first2=Robert K.|date=2016|title=Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory|url=https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/page/doc/2018-05/22_1_1_Cunningham.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=15 August 2021|website=ll.mit.edu/}}</ref> While at the ], he helped promote the promise of quantum computing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=525768|title=The Promise of Quantum Computing|website=resources.sei.cmu.edu}}</ref>


== Career ==
He has given his time to many professional endeavors (e.g.,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2012/06234446/12OmNzt0IL3|title=CSDL &#124; IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org}}</ref>), including serving as the Chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cybersecurity.ieee.org/|title=IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative|website=cybersecurity.ieee.org}}</ref> and co-founding (with Prof. Michael Hicks<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/people/mwh|title=Mike Hicks &#124; UMIACS|website=www.umiacs.umd.edu}}</ref>) the ] Secure Development Conference (SECDEV).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secdev.ieee.org/2021/home/|title=Home - IEEE Secure Development Conference|website=secdev.ieee.org}}</ref>
He worked for twenty-five years at the ], principally on ].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Zissman|first1=Marc A.|last2=Cunningham|first2=Robert K.|date=2016|title=Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory|url=https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/page/doc/2018-05/22_1_1_Cunningham.pdf|access-date=15 August 2021|website=ll.mit.edu/}}</ref> In this role, he participated on multiple national studies. He earned an MIT Excellence Award for "Bringing out the Best"<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=MIT Excellence Award - Robert K. Cunningham |url=https://hr.mit.edu/rewards/recipient/award-recipients/2015/bringing-out-best/robert-k-cunningham}}</ref> in his staff in 2015 and an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wahl |first=Haley |date=Jun 6, 2023 |title=A journey to the Best Paper Award |url=https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/journey-best-paper-award#:~:text=Adversary%20Safety%20by%20Construction%20in,Laboratory's%202022%20Best%20Paper%20Award.}}</ref> award in 2023 for his work developing a language for expressing adversary safety in cryptographic protocols.


From 2018 to 2021 he worked on cyber security and privacy, software engineering,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cunningham |first=Robert |last2=Carleton |first2=Anita |author-link2=Anita Carleton |last3=Longstaff |first3=Tom |last4=Shull |first4=Forest |date=2021 |title=A Research Roadmap for Building Secure and Resilient Software-Intensive Systems |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielaam/8013/9592736/9592823-aam.pdf |journal=IEEE Security and Privacy |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=8-14}}</ref> and ] at the ] of ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=525768|title=The Promise of Quantum Computing|website=resources.sei.cmu.edu}}</ref> He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the ] (2019–2020){{cn|date=October 2021}}, where he contributed to several national strategy documents on computer architecture and quantum information science and engineering.<ref>https://www.quantum.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/A-Coordinated-Approach-to-Quantum-Networking.pdf</ref>
==Education==
⚫ He earned an ] in Electrical Engineering from ], which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of ], where he earned his Ph.D.


In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the ],<ref name=":0" /> while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University as a professor of cybersecurity.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rob Cunningham|url=https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/directory/bios/cunningham-rob.html|website=www.cylab.cmu.edu}}</ref> He holds several additional leadership positions, including executive director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Initiative.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=PQI Governance and Committees |url=https://www.pqi.org/about/governance-and-committees |website=Pittsburgh Quantum Institute}}</ref>
==Awards==
Dr. Cunningham is a Fellow of the ].<ref></ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2017/seven-from-mit-named-2017-ieee-fellows-0105|title=Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows|website=MIT News &#124; Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> In 2015, he received an MIT Excellence Award,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hr.mit.edu/rewards/recipient/award-recipients/2015/bringing-out-best/robert-k-cunningham|title=Robert K. Cunningham &#124; MIT Human Resources|website=hr.mit.edu}}</ref> Bringing out the Best, from the ]. In addition to organizing and reviewing for many conferences and publications, he served as an NSA Science of Security "Distinguished Expert" reviewer<ref></ref>.


He was made a ] of the ] in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2017/seven-from-mit-named-2017-ieee-fellows-0105|title=Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows|website=MIT News &#124; Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> He has served as chair of the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cybersecurity.ieee.org/|title=IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative|website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2012/06234446/12OmNzt0IL3|title=CSDL &#124; IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org}}</ref>
⚫ == Personal life ==
⚫ He is married to ], with whom he has two sons (born in 1994 and 1996).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimonth956brow/brownalumnimonth956brow_djvu.txt|title=Brown Alumni Monthly Archives|website=archive.org}}</ref>


According to Google Scholar he has an ] of 30.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cunningham |first=Robert |date=2025 |title=Publication H-Index |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VhBfy5MAAAAJ&hl=en}}</ref>
== Selected publications ==
Dr. Cunningham has written broadly on computer security, covering multiple important topic areas. This section contains a sampling.


⚫ == Personal life ==
=== Measuring and Understanding Computer Security and Privacy ===
⚫ He is married to ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimonth956brow/brownalumnimonth956brow_djvu.txt|title=Brown Alumni Monthly Archives|website=archive.org|date=March 1995 }}</ref>


Robert is a member of the board of directors of Quantum Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quantumtheatre.com/about/board/|title=Quantum Theatre Board of Directors}}</ref>
Lippmann, R.P., Fried, D.J., Graf, I., Haines, J.W., Kendall, K.R., McClung, D., Weber, D., Webster, S.E., Wyschogrod, D., Cunningham, R.K. and Zissman, M.A., 2000, January. Evaluating intrusion detection systems: The 1998 DARPA off-line intrusion detection evaluation. In Proceedings DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition. DISCEX'00 (Vol. 2, pp. 12-26). IEEE.


⚫ == References ==
Lippmann, R.P. and Cunningham, R.K., 1999. Guide to creating stealthy attacks for the 1999 DARPA off-line intrusion detection evaluation. Computer Networks, 34(4), pp.579-595.
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<ref name=ieee>. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.</ref>
Pfleeger, S. and Cunningham, R., 2010. Why measuring security is hard. IEEE Security & Privacy, 8(4), pp.46-54.


Rossey, L.M., Cunningham, R.K., Fried, D.J., Rabek, J.C., Lippmann, R.P., Haines, J.W. and Zissman, M.A., 2002, March. LARIAT: Lincoln adaptable real-time information assurance testbed. In Proceedings, ieee aerospace conference (Vol. 6, pp. 6-6). IEEE.


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Shay, R., Blumenthal, U., Gadepally, V., Hamlin, A., Mitchell, J.D. and Cunningham, R.K., 2019. Don't Even Ask: Database Access Control through Query Control. ACM SIGMOD Record, 47(3), pp.17-22.


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Spensky, C., Stewart, J., Yerukhimovich, A., Shay, R., Trachtenberg, A., Housley, R. and Cunningham, R.K., 2016. SoK: Privacy on Mobile Devices-It's Complicated. Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2016(3), pp.96-116.

Weaver, N., Paxson, V., Staniford, S. and Cunningham, R., 2003, October. A taxonomy of computer worms. In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM workshop on Rapid Malcode (pp. 11-18).

Yu, T.H., Fuller, B.W., Bannick, J.H., Rossey, L.M. and Cunningham, R.K., 2008. Integrated environment management for information operations testbeds. In VizSEC 2007 (pp. 67-83). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Zhivich, M. and Cunningham, R.K., 2009. The real cost of software errors. IEEE Security & Privacy, 7(2), pp.87-90.

=== Leveraging Static Analysis and Machine Learning for Computer Security ===
Boyer, S., Dain, O. and Cunningham, R., 2005, March. Stellar: A fusion system for scenario construction and security risk assessment. In Third IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance (IWIA'05) (pp. 105-116). IEEE.

Cunningham, R.K., Lippmann, R.P., Kassay, D., Webster, S.E. and Zissman, M.A., 1999, November. Host-based bottleneck verification efficiently detects novel computer attacks. In IEEE Military Communications Conference Proceedings.

Khazan, R., Rabek, J., Lewandowski, S. and Cunningham, R., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. Technique for detecting executable malicious code using a combination of static and dynamic analyses. U.S. Patent Application 10/464,828.

Lippmann, R.P. and Cunningham, R.K., 2000. Improving intrusion detection performance using keyword selection and neural networks. Computer networks, 34(4), pp.597-603.

Streilein, W.W., Cunningham, R.K. and Webster, S.E., 2001, June. Improved detection of low-profile probe and denial-of-service attacks. In Proceedings of the 2001 Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Computer Intrusion Detection.

=== Cryptographically-protected search and computation ===

Fuller, B., Varia, M., Yerukhimovich, A., Shen, E., Hamlin, A., Gadepally, V., Shay, R., Mitchell, J.D. and Cunningham, R.K., 2017, May. Sok: Cryptographically protected database search. In 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) (pp. 172-191). IEEE.

Kepner, J., Gadepally, V., Michaleas, P., Schear, N., Varia, M., Yerukhimovich, A. and Cunningham, R.K., 2014, September. Computing on masked data: a high performance method for improving big data veracity. In 2014 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Shen, E., Varia, M., Cunningham, R.K. and Vesey, W.K., 2015. Cryptographically secure computation. Computer, 48(4), pp.78-81.

=== Analysis Tools ===
Lippmann, R., Ingols, K., Scott, C., Piwowarski, K., Kratkiewicz, K., Artz, M. and Cunningham, R., 2006, October. Validating and restoring defense in depth using attack graphs. In MILCOM 2006-2006 IEEE Military Communications Conference (pp. 1-10). IEEE.

Williams, T., Kelley, C., Bröker, H.B., Campbell, J., Cunningham, R., Denholm, D., Elber, E., Fearick, R., Grammes, C. and Hart, L., 2017. Gnuplot 4.6: An interactive plotting program, 2012. URL http://www. gnuplot. info, 56.

⚫ == References ==
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American computer scientist
Robert K. Cunningham
Alma mater
SpouseBarbara Shinn-Cunningham
AwardsFellow, IEEE
Scientific career
Fieldscomputer security, machine learning, electrical engineering
Institutions

Robert K. Cunningham is an American computer scientist and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers., and a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and the department of informatics and networked systems, where he performs research on computer security and artificial intelligence.

Education

He earned an Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of Boston University, where he earned his Ph.D.

Career

He worked for twenty-five years at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, principally on computer security. In this role, he participated on multiple national studies. He earned an MIT Excellence Award for "Bringing out the Best" in his staff in 2015 and an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper award in 2023 for his work developing a language for expressing adversary safety in cryptographic protocols.

From 2018 to 2021 he worked on cyber security and privacy, software engineering, and quantum computing at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the University of Maryland (2019–2020), where he contributed to several national strategy documents on computer architecture and quantum information science and engineering.

In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh, while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University as a professor of cybersecurity. He holds several additional leadership positions, including executive director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Initiative.

He was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007. He has served as chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative.

According to Google Scholar he has an h-index of 30.

Personal life

He is married to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.

Robert is a member of the board of directors of Quantum Theatre.

References

  1. ^ "CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure". utimes.
  2. Robert Cunningham. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.
  3. "Pitt ECE Faculty". Retrieved Jan 5, 2025.
  4. "DINS Faculty". Retrieved Jan 5, 2025.
  5. Cunningham, Robert (1998). Learning and recognizing patterns of visual motion, color and form. Boston, MA: Boston University.
  6. Zissman, Marc A.; Cunningham, Robert K. (2016). "Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory" (PDF). ll.mit.edu/. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  7. "MIT Excellence Award - Robert K. Cunningham". 2015.
  8. Wahl, Haley (Jun 6, 2023). "A journey to the Best Paper Award".
  9. Cunningham, Robert; Carleton, Anita; Longstaff, Tom; Shull, Forest (2021). "A Research Roadmap for Building Secure and Resilient Software-Intensive Systems" (PDF). IEEE Security and Privacy. 19 (6): 8–14.
  10. "The Promise of Quantum Computing". resources.sei.cmu.edu.
  11. https://www.quantum.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/A-Coordinated-Approach-to-Quantum-Networking.pdf
  12. "Rob Cunningham". www.cylab.cmu.edu.
  13. "PQI Governance and Committees". Pittsburgh Quantum Institute. 2021.
  14. "Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  15. "IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative". IEEE.
  16. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org.
  17. Cunningham, Robert (2025). "Publication H-Index".
  18. "Brown Alumni Monthly Archives". archive.org. March 1995.
  19. "Quantum Theatre Board of Directors".
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