Teaching

Practical Cybersecurity (EE 469)

Offered: Fall 2025 (as EE 59889)

A hands-on course in cybersecurity techniques for future practitioners. Students will gain an understanding of common security vulnerabilities and how to defend against them. The course emphasizes a learn-by-doing approach, where students actively engage with real-world attacks and countermeasures in a controlled environment. Topics covered include threat modeling, privilege escalation, software vulnerabilities, network monitoring, web application exploits, and emerging threats in cybersecurity. 3 credits, undergraduate.

Secure Systems Engineering (EE I7701)

Offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024

A first course in the design and implementation of secure and private systems. Attacks against low-level programming, secure software engineering practices, and the use of Rust to develop secure systems. Detailed study of important secure systems such as TLS, messaging, and anonymity networks. Side channels and back doors in security-sensitive systems. Advanced topics and case studies in secure systems engineering. The course will culminate in a final project where students will engineer a secure system for a chosen application. 3 credits, graduate.

Advanced Cybersecurity (EE 59803 and EE G7703)

Offered: Spring 2026

This course provides a comprehensive overview of advanced topics in cybersecurity. Students will get an opportunity to engage with published research through reading and discussion. The course will cover both classic papers and recent results in systems security, network security, applied cryptography, and privacy. Concurrently with reading and evaluating research, groups of students will work on a novel security research project on a topic of their choosing. The course will culminate in a research symposium, with groups presenting their research findings to the class. 3 credits, undergraduate (EE 59803) and graduate (EE G7703).