Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Alabama A&M University

Biography

Dr. Raziq Yaqub an Associate Professor in the EE&CS Department, Alabama A&M University, USA, earned a Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from Keio University, Japan, and an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickenson University, New Jersey, USA. He is an inventor of technologies in Cybersecurity of Financial Technologies, Wireless Communications, Smart Grid, and Connected Electric Vehicles. He has 34 issued patents, and is a recipient of “Inventor of the Year Award-2014” from the Inventors Hall of Fame, New Jersey. He received an award of “Excellence in Scholarship and Research 2019” from the President of his university, an award of “Innovator Young Faculty” and an award of “Outstanding Engineering Educator” from the Dean of his college, and “Outstanding Engineer 2020” award from IEEE region-3. He remained an Executive Director of Toshiba America Research, New Jersey, to lead 4G/LTE, Department head of NIKSUN University, Princeton, New Jersey, to lead Cybersecurity, and Director of Global R&D of Tecvox, Huntsville, AL, USA, to lead wireless charger and media hubs for the automotive industry. He also remained Sr. Consultant to the State of New Jersey to secure $87M grant, a spokesperson of Department of Homeland Security in 3GPP”, an invited Researcher in NASA Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and an inventor for Wells Fargo, USA.He also remained Chairman, and contributor in standards organizations such as 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX, MWIF, OMA, Lead Member for ABET accreditation, Chairman Academic Standards Committee, Chair IEEE Membership Development, Evaluator for technical papers, Ph.D. theses, patents and grant proposals, Vice Chairman of IEEE Southeast Conference 2019, organizer of numerous international conferences, Invited/Keynote speaker, Panel Moderator/Resource Person in international events. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He communicate in English, Japanese, Hindi, and Urdu, and has 25 years of experience in industry, government, and academia

Description

Recently the demand for Aerial Mobility has increased. It envisions, connected, Electric Aerial Vehicles (EAV) that will operate in city centers and suburban regions to enhance passenger as well as cargo transportation. EAV will employ distributed control systems to optimize the vehicles’ weight. Communication systems will play a key role as they will not only provide the connectivity among the components of distribution control systems. Thus EAV demand a high level of cybersecurity for the communication channels. This talk focuses on the safe operation EAV. The talk is divided into four sections. Section 1 sets the stage by defining EAV system and its evolution, section 2 provides insight into Cyber-security landscape, including how security evolved into cybersecurity, and why security is such a big concern for EAV, section 3 provides cyberattack vectors, and section 4 possible types of attacks. The talk will provide food for thought on how to explore innovative techniques and conduct Cyber Security related research. As such, it will be beneficial for the government policy makers, industry leaders, decision makers, corporate and academic researchers, professors, and students.