Research Focus
Paulo Costa is the Director of GMU’s Center of Excellence in C5I and Vice President for Securing Automation and Supply Chain Security with DOE’s Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute. He has applied his significant experience as a fighter pilot to a career specializing in the field of electronic warfare and flight safety, which in conjunction with his research on probabilistic reasoning has led to applications in cyber and transportation security, heterogeneous data fusion, and decision support systems in healthcare, defense, and other areas. These topics are at the core of his classroom activities at both graduate and undergraduate level, as well as his research path. Costa leads the research in understanding security objectives and verification protocols, bringing in the science of probabilistic reasoning and challenging PhD level candidates to consider theory and methods for building computationally efficient software agents that reason, act, and learn in environments characterized by noisy and chaotic traffic.
Prof. Costa received his PhD from George Mason University and is the current Chair of the Department of Cyber Security Engineering. He is a key researcher in the field of probabilistic ontologies, which he applies to develop innovative solutions in areas such as industrial engineering and advanced manufacturing security, cyber-warfare, intelligent transportation systems and C2 decision support. He is a IEEE Senior Member and a former President of the International Society of Information Fusion (isif.org), where he currently serves at its Board of Directors.
