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Cybersecurity Assurance & Policy (CAP) Center
Dr. Cliston L. Cole
Office: Schaefer Engineering Building (SEB), Room 336
Phone: 443-885-2356
cliston.cole@morgan.edu
Dr. Cliston Cole received both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tuskegee University in Electrical Engineering. He also received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working in the Human Speech Recognition group under Prof. Jont Allen. Since 2020, he has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University (MSU).
Dr. Cole’s research focuses on improving the quality of life for humans and protecting cyber-physical systems in networks by developing advanced software and hardware systems for biological and communication applications, such as noise reduction and accelerating hardware for emerging hearing aids. His research spans auditory psychophysics and neuroscience, algorithms and architectures for statistical signal processing and communication systems, emerging hardware for artificial intelligence, and mathematical cybersecurity for protecting information exchanges in networks, which are the fundamental driving forces for developing next-generation communication technologies and security solutions.
Before joining the electrical and computer engineering faculty at MSU, Dr. Cole was a skilled systems and electronic engineer with Raytheon Technologies and NAVAIR, with experience in signal processing for weapon systems for the Department of Defense. In 2023, he was a Summer Fellow for the Air Force Research Laboratory, where his mission was to advance reliable, stable, and sustainable communication networks under adversary attacks by implementing resilient distributed algorithms.
Research Interests
- Human speech recognition: Auditory neuroscience; Speech perception; Audio signal processing; Natural language processing; Speech processing for hearing aid applications
- Advanced hardware systems: Emerging hardware; Accelerating hardware; Software-defined hardware; Quantum-inspired systems; Bio-circuit design for biological systems
- Secure communications: Convex optimization; Advanced resilient distributed algorithms for autonomous dynamical systems; Network vulnerabilities analysis