“As leaders in the engineering research community, it is imperative that we work together to advance innovative, impactful and interdisciplinary research to find solutions to national and global challenges. ERVA gives us an opportunity to align our collective research mission with stakeholders across industry, government and academia to improve the human condition.”
Raheem Beyah, a native of Atlanta, GA, serves as Georgia Tech's dean of the College of Engineering and Southern Company Chair. Prior to this role, Beyah served as vice president for interdisciplinary research, executive director of the Online Masters of Cybersecurity program , and the interim Steve W. Chaddick Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a professor in the School of ECE, where he leads the Communications Assurance and Performance Group and is affiliated with the Institute for Information Security and Privacy. Beyah is also co-founder of Fortiphyd Logic, Inc., an industrial cybersecurity company.
Prior to returning to Georgia Tech, Beyah was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, a research faculty member with the Georgia Tech CSC, and a consultant in Andersen Consulting's Network Solutions Group. He earned his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University. He earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech. Beyah has served as a guest editor for MONET, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Access, and as an associate editor of several journals.
His research interests include network security and monitoring, cyber-physical systems security, network traffic characterization and performance, additive manufacturing security, and critical infrastructure security. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009 and was selected for DARPA's Computer Science Study Panel in 2010. He is a member of AAAS, ASEE, a lifetime member of NSBE, a senior member of IEEE, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.