Associate Professor

Department: Computer Science

Dr. Deepak Tosh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). His research interests span cybersecurity of critical infrastructure, data provenance, trust and resiliency of industrial networks, cyber-threat information sharing, cyber-risk monitoring and assessment, and the use of game theory and mechanism design to enhance system security.

Motivated by the growing challenges of trust and security in networked systems, the overarching goal of his research is to develop resilient and sustainable mechanisms that address various complex cyber and data security challenges associated to modern cyber-physical system environments. As communities become increasingly interconnected while emerging cyber-threats tend to be advanced, he focuses on designing secure, decentralized, and scalable solutions to strengthen both civilian applications (e.g. Internet of Things, Cloud and Edge computing platforms) and military/battlefield environments. His research has been supported by grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), and Department of Defense (DoD). He is a recipient of prestigious NSF CAREER Award.

Keywords of Expertise: Cybersecurity, Cyber-Physical Systems, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Data Provenance, Software-defined Networks, Anomaly Detection, Game Theory and Mechanism Design