Event

Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium - Michael Clifford

Friday, November 10, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110
Darcy Long
301 405 3114
dlong123@umd.edu

Speaker: Michael Clifford, Principal Researcher, Toyota InfoTech Labs

Title: Cybersecurity for Autonomous Mobility

Abstract: Autonomous vehicles provide excellent models for the advancement of cybersecurity research.  They incorporate safety-critical and time-critical networks, computers, machine learning, sensors, roadside infrastructure, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, and human-machine interactions.  While challenging to protect  individually, when used in combination, these systems present new challenges that are the subject of autonomous vehicle security research.  This talk will highlight how the automotive industry has traditionally approached vehicle cybersecurity, and why that approach is no longer adequate.  It will provide insights into vehicles of the future – software-defined, and autonomous, vehicles.  We will also explore the modeling and prediction of attacks, defenses, and policies, as well as their interactions within complex systems.  Finally, we will talk about the application of machine learning explainability to the protection of vehicles from attack.

Bio: Dr. Michael Clifford is a Principal Researcher at Toyota InfoTech Labs, where he leads research in cybersecurity and privacy for autonomous mobility.  As part of this work, he leads a network of interdisciplinary research teams that work on advanced problems that combine cybersecurity, machine learning, and future technologies in a variety of fields. He has been doing cybersecurity research professionally since 1997 at Toyota, Noblis, UC Davis, MITRE, MIT Lincoln Labs, and the Aerospace Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis in 2012.