Homeland Security and Faculty Expertise: University of Maryland

National Security and the University Of Maryland

Barg, Alexander

Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland, College Park Ph.D. Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Expertise: Coding and information theory; combinatorics; cryptography; bounds on error-correcting codes; bounds on Grassmannian codes; error probability of decoding; construction and decoding of codes on graphs; codes and capacity of digital fingerprinting

Credentials

Alexander Barg has been a senior researcher at the IPPI. He was a member of technical staff of Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies in 1997-2002 before joining the faculty at UMD.
Barg is a member of the editorial board of Problems of Information Transmission, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, and Advances of Mathematics in Communication. He has previously served as an editor for coding theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was organizer of the DIMACS Workshops "Codes and Association Schemes" (1999) and "Algebraic Coding Theory and Information Theory" (2003) and served Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA (2006).

Security Related

Coding for high-density magnetic recording, Secret key generation for a pairwise independent network model, Codes in permutations and error correction for rank modulation, Near-MDS poset codes, Two-level fingerprinting codes. Net Centricity management practices, information assurance.

Phone: 301-405-7135
Address: 2361 A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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Faculty

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Faculty Expertise Areas

Biological, Physical and Chemical Science

Cyber security, Cryptography, Systems and secure communication security

Data analysis for security

Data collection, Surveillance and sensing, Hardware and software advances for improved data collection

Domestic Protection, Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response

Domestic and foreign Policy

Economic Security

Environmental Security

Materials Science, Bioengineering and Science

Natural Language Processing

Understanding strategically important State and Non-state actors

Relevant UM Centers

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The University of Maryland ranks among the top 20 public research universities in the nation and is the closest in proximity to the nation's capital. Maryland is uniquely positioned to address issues of homeland security with its highly ranked programs in public affairs, science and technology and its strong ties to nearby federal agencies and research laboratories. Our distinguished faculty includes members who have served as senior government officials and public policy experts, as well as leading experts in arms control and nuclear and biological weapons.