Tim Brown
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy
Director of Academics, CMU-Africa
Director, Kigali Collaborative Research Center
Timothy X. Brown is director of academics and a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy Departments at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in Rwanda. He is also director of the Kigali Collaborative Research Center. From 1995 to 2012 he was at the University of Colorado at Boulder, most recently as professor and director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. He received his B.S. in physics from Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, after which he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Bell Communications Research. His research interests include adaptive network control, machine learning, and wireless communication systems. His current research funding includes Master Card Foundation and other industry funders. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and the GWEC Wireless Educator of the Year Award.
Education
1990 Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
1987 MS, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
1986 BS, Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Applications of security and privacy
- automotive and transportation security and privacy
- blockchain
- cryptography
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- cyberphysical systems (CPS)
- cybersecurity
- data/network science systems
- emerging applications security
- energy
- energy and critical infrastructure security
- information and communication technology (ICT)
- machine learning
- mobile systems
- secure systems
- systems security
- wireless networks