Who We Are
Our team is comprised of faculty, staff, and students from six colleges at North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT). Our research is awarded and funded by The Office of Naval Research (ONR).
Our TCASA research project is housed under the Center for Trustworthy AI (CTA) at NCAT. CTA conducts research to advance trustworthy AI-driven technologies through inclusive and multidisciplinary research.
Our Leaders
Center Director: Kaushik Roy, Computer Science
Associate Directors: Sun Yi, Daniel Limbrick, & Carla Coates
OUR
T C A S A
Trustworthy Cyber physical defense systems via AI and Shared Autonomy (TCASA) is a multidisciplinary research project that is divided into four focus areas. These synergistic focus areas comprise of three thrusts and an integration of research, education, training, and outreach.
Overview
TCASA is engaged in innovation in the cross-cutting themes of deep learning, adversarial and explainable AI, human-on-the-loop AI, and connecting AI with other scientific disciplines and the humanities. Our research project at CTA brings together researchers from across the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems, Cyber Autonomy, Cyber Identity, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Healthcare, Agriculture, Natural Language Processing, and Robotics. TCASA welcomes faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and postdoctoral researchers pursuing research on fundamental advances in the above areas.
Mission
Our mission is to address critical challenges by developing a Trustworthy CPDS via AI and Shared Autonomy (TCASA), As a multidisciplinary team of members from six colleges (the Colleges of Engineering, Science and Technology, Business and Economics, Education, Health & Human Sciences, and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) at NCAT, we utilize research expertise in the quest of advancing AI, cybersecurity, and robotics, with cutting-edge methods and procedures that will provide solutions using tools and integrated systems to result in safe, reliable, and secure AI-driven technologies.
Vision
TCASA aims to enrich research capabilities in AI, cybersecurity, and educational programs. We provide quality education for the next generation of Trustworthy AI technology leaders through the state-of-the-art learning and professional development.
Our vision equips scholars to professionally make impactful contributions to the future of AI. Aligning with our center’s (CTA) initiative of aspiring innovative, exemplary, fundamental, and enhanced research to curate trustworthy AI.
Research Thrusts Areas
Thrust I Lead
Dr. Kaushik Roy
Development of AI-Enhanced Autonomous, Explainable, and Trustwirthy CPDS
Co-Leads:
Dr. Jingsheng Xu, Dr. Seongate Kim, and Dr. Albert Esterline
Thrust II Lead
Dr. Sun Yi
Co-Leads:
Dr. Younho Seong and Dr. Salil Desai
AI-Enhanced Shared Autonomy in Networked Agents with Trust
Secure and Reliable Edge Computing for CPDS
Thrust III Lead
Dr. Daniel Limbrick
Co-Leads:
Dr. Christopher Doss and Dr. John Kelly
Integration of Research, Education, Training, and Outreach
The project aims to connect researchers and resources at NCAT to integrate research with education for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. Providing rigorous training and an advanced level of education for the new generation students pursuing careers in human centered-AI, HMI, autonomy, robotics, and cybersecurity.
- Curriculum Development
- Increase Participation of Under-Represented Minorities in STEM Education
- Course Enrichment Programs
- Creating a Pipeline between Government Agencies, Labs and NCAT
Some of our Integration Goals
Thrust Lead
Dr. Carla Coates
Co-Leads:
Dr. Belinda Shipps and Dr. Stephanie Teixeira-Poit
Thrust I: Development of AI-Enhanced, Autonomous, Explainable, and Trustworthy CPDS
To lessen the risks taken by human
beings and to be more responsive in
diverse situations, the world shifts to the
HOTL paradigm.
To defend our system against threats that can occur anytime, even with five-nines
availability, we propose a fully autonomous architecture with the following characteristics:
1) Reasoning in various cyber environments
2) Autonomous intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) using multi-labeled classification
3) Trustworthy and secure systems.
The goal of Thrust II is to make autonomous missions successful even though they are executed typically in
unstructured, unknown or partially known, complex and adversarial environments.
The intrusion detection and mitigation of Thrust I will be incorporated
into networked agents and realized with physical systems. The missions are executed by networked agents with HOTL.
Thrust III will enhance the reliability and security of microelectronics used in the NWD by:
1) assessing the threat of radiative particles and exploring Radiation-Hardening-by Design (RHBD) techniques to mitigate the threat
2) evaluating security vulnerabilities in microprocessors
3) evaluating the tradeoff of reliability and security with performance for
AI applications
To understand the threats from multiple computing scenarios and connect with
the applications presented in Thrusts I and II, a shared and reusable testbed will be developed for multi-domain applications.
Events & Resources
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Facilities
Associated Centers & Facilities:
- Center for Cyber Defense (CCD), a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE)-CAE-R [Research] and CAE-CD [Education]
- Center of Excellence in Product Design and Advanced Manufacturing (CEPDAM)
Interdisciplinary centers that we collaborate with at NCAT
T C A S A
Contact Us
The Harold L. Martin Sr. Engineering Research and Innovation Complex (MERIC)
Center for Trustworthy AI (CTA)
1101 E Market St, Greensboro, NC 27401
Center Director: Dr. Kaushik Roy
Program Manager: Ms. Bianca Govan
Office Hours
Monday to Friday
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday by appointment only
