Robert K. Cunningham

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Robert K. Cunningham
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Spouse Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
AwardsFellow, IEEE
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Fields computer security, machine learning, electrical engineering
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Robert K. Cunningham is an American computer scientist and engineer. In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh [1] He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [2] , and a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering [3] and the department of informatics and networked systems [4] , where he performs research on computer security and artificial intelligence.

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Education

He earned an Sc.B. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, which he attended from 1981-1985. He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of Boston University, where he earned his Ph.D. [5]

Career

He worked for twenty-five years at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, principally on computer security. [6] In this role, he participated on multiple national studies. He earned an MIT Excellence Award for "Bringing out the Best" [7] in his staff in 2015 and an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper [8] award in 2023 for his work developing a language for expressing adversary safety in cryptographic protocols.

From 2018 to 2021 he worked on cyber security and privacy, software engineering [9] , and quantum computing at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. [10] He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the University of Maryland (2019–2020)[ citation needed ], where he contributed to several national strategy documents on computer architecture and quantum information science and engineering [11] .

In 2021, he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh, [1] while maintaining connections to Carnegie Mellon University as a professor of cybersecurity [12] . He holds several additional leadership positions, including executive director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Initiative [13] .

He was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2007. [14] He has served as chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. [15] [16]

According to Google Scholar he has an h-index of 30 [17] .

Personal life

He is married to Barbara Shinn-Cunningham. [18]

Robert is a member of the board of directors of Quantum Theatre. [19]

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References

  1. 1 2 "CMU official named vice chancellor for research infrastructure". utimes.
  2. ↑ Robert Cunningham. IEEE Fellows Directory. Accessed October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Pitt ECE Faculty" . Retrieved Jan 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ "DINS Faculty" . Retrieved Jan 5, 2025.
  5. ↑ Cunningham, Robert (1998). Learning and recognizing patterns of visual motion, color and form. Boston, MA: Boston University.
  6. ↑ Zissman, Marc A.; Cunningham, Robert K. (2016). "Cyber Security Research at Lincoln Laboratory" (PDF). ll.mit.edu/. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "MIT Excellence Award - Robert K. Cunningham". 2015.
  8. ↑ Wahl, Haley (Jun 6, 2023). "A journey to the Best Paper Award".
  9. ↑ Cunningham, Robert; Carleton, Anita; Longstaff, Tom; Shull, Forest (2021). "A Research Roadmap for Building Secure and Resilient Software-Intensive Systems" (PDF). IEEE Security and Privacy. 19 (6): 8–14.
  10. ↑ "The Promise of Quantum Computing". resources.sei.cmu.edu.
  11. ↑ https://www.quantum.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/A-Coordinated-Approach-to-Quantum-Networking.pdf
  12. ↑ "Rob Cunningham". www.cylab.cmu.edu.
  13. ↑ "PQI Governance and Committees". Pittsburgh Quantum Institute. 2021.
  14. ↑ "Seven from MIT are named 2017 IEEE Fellows". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  15. ↑ "IEEE Cybersecurity – Home of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative". IEEE .
  16. ↑ "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org.
  17. ↑ Cunningham, Robert (2025). "Publication H-Index".
  18. ↑ "Brown Alumni Monthly Archives". archive.org. March 1995.
  19. ↑ "Quantum Theatre Board of Directors".
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