Yasser Shoukry

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director, Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems Lab

Affiliate, Maryland Cybersecurity Center

Affiliate, Maryland Robotics Center

(Update: Starting October 1st, 2019, the Resilient CPS lab will be reallocated to the University of California, Irvine! You can visit our new website here!)

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park where I direct the Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. Before joining UMD, I was a joint postdoctoral associate at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Pennsylvania working with Prof. George J. Pappas, Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia, and Prof. Paulo Tabuada. I received my Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Paulo Tabuada and Prof. Mani Srivastava.

My research goal is to develop algorithms and tools to reason about the resilience, security, and privacy of Artificial Intelligence (AI) controlled Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT), in general, and robotic systems, in particular, providing a scientific basis to understand their fundamental properties and guide their design. My work spans both theoretical and experimental aspects of CPS and draws on tools from formal methods, embedded systems, control theory, and machine learning.

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

Dissertation: "Security and Privacy in Cyber Physical Systems: Attacks and Countermeasures" Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award!

M.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering

Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2010

Thesis: "Model Predictive Control (MPC) on Chip"

B.Sc. in Computer and Systems Engineering

Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 2007

Awards

George Corcoran Memorial Award, presented to young faculty who "has shown exemplary contributions to teaching and educational leadership," UMD, July 2019.
NSF CAREER Award, February 2019.
Best Demo Award, 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), CPS Week, April 2017.
Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award, EE Department, UCLA, 2016.
Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE 7th International Conference on Cyber Physical Systems (ICCPS), CPS Week, April 2016.
Winner, NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Investigator’s (NSF-ECI) Research Competition, CPS Week, April 2015.
Preliminary Exam Fellowship, EE Department, UCLA, February 2012.
Chancellor Prize Fellowship, EE Department, UCLA, Summer 2011,2012.
Graduate Division Fellowship, EE Department, UCLA, 2011/2012.

Teaching

Spring 2019: ENEE 351 Algorithms and Data structures
Fall 2018: ENEE 459I/ENEE 759I Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems
Spring 2018: ENEE 351 Algorithms and Data structures
Fall 2017: ENEE 459I/ENEE 759I Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems

Conferences

ICCPS 2020 (Program Committee)
ICCPS 2019 (Program Committee)
ACM SafeThings 2018 (Program Committee co-chair)
ICCPS 2018 (Program Committee)
HSCC 2018 (Program Committee)
ACM SafeThings 2017 (Program Committee)

Travel

CAV, New York City, NY, July 2019
ICML, Long Beach, CA, June 2019
ICRA, Montreal, Canada, May 2019
CPS-IoT Week, Montreal, Canada, April 2019
CDC, Miami Beach, FL, Dec. 2018.
NSF Expeditions PI Meeting, Washington, DC, Dec 2018
NSF CPS PI Meeting, Arlington, VA, Nov. 2018
ECE, UCSD, San Diego, CA, Oct 2018
CS, Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, Oct 2018
ES Week, Torino, Italy, Sept 2018
Mathworks Research summit, Boston, July 2018
CPS Week 2018, Porto, Portugal, April 2018
CDC, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2018
EE, USC, Los Angeles, CA, Dec 2017

Contact Information

Office: 2347 AV Williams Building, 8223 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD 20742

Lab: 2352 AV Williams Building, 8223 Paint Branch Drive, College Park, MD 20742

Email: yshoukry@ece.umd.edu

Phone: (301) 405-0772

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