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t. charles clancy     Ph.D.

Senior Researcher, Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland
Affiliate Researcher, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Member, IEEE and IEEE Communications Society
Member, USMS and Terrapin Masters Swim Team

Previous IETF Activities: Chair, HOKEY; Security Advisor, EAP and CAPWAP; Member, SECDIR (2005-2009)

PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, 2006
MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002
BS in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, magna cum laude, 2001

Email: tcc@umd.edu, PGP Key
Campus Office: 1357 AVW (by appointment); 2125 LTS

My primary interests include cognitive radio, wireless networks, and security. Most of my current research involves advancing the state of the art in Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and Cognitive Radio (CR). One of my most active areas is investigating the security and robustness of SDR/CR-based networks. I am currently co-authoring a textbook on this topic entitled Fundamentals of Software-Defined and Cognitive Radio Security, with expected availability in 2010.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Computer Science, where my advisor was Bill Arbaugh. My dissertation research was an analysis of the FCC's Interference Temperature proposal for dynamic spectrum access. While at the University of Illinois, I received my MSEE while working with Dick Blahut on information-theoretic aspects of cryptography.

In my role at LTS, I'm leading and participating in a variety of research collaborations:

• Game Theory and Dynamic Spectrum Access
  Investigation with the University of Maryland of the impact game theory can have on developing spectrum access techniques robust to greedy and malicious users
  
  
• Cognitive Radio Security
  Joint work with Virginia Tech into understanding and mitigating new security vulnerabilities introduced into telecommunications systems by using computational intelligence to control them
  
  
• WiMAX
  Development of the University of Maryland's MAXWell Lab, a WiMAX Forum-endorsed Applications Laboratory where researchers and vendors can develop and test applications geared for mobile broadband networks
  
  
• SDR Design and Implementation
  Improvement of open-source software-defined radio tools, including Virginia Tech's open-source SCA implementation, OSSIE; and high-performance extensions of GNU Radio on platforms such as the IBM Cell, GPUs, and FPGAs using University of Maryland's advanced code scheduling project DIF
  
  
• Intelligence to Support Cognitive Radio
  Numerous projects with Stevens Institute of Technology researching advanced, intelligent telecommunications systems, specifically computational intelligence to support cognitive radio

Additional information:

• My Curriculum Vitae
• List of Publications

Spring 2009: ENEE 426, Communication Networks
Fall 2008: ENTS 689i, Special Topics in Telecommunications: Network Immunity
Spring 2008: ENEE 426, Communication Networks

As an adjunct professor, I can advise Undergraduate and Masters students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and serve on and co-direct Ph.D. dissertation committees. If you have been admitted to the ECE department at UMD and are interested in working with me, please email me. Realize that I am not a full-time faculty member, have no funding to support research assistants, and consequently can only accept a limited number of students. Unless you are a fellowship student or have your tuition paid by an employer or other source, I recommend you look elsewhere for an advisor.