NB: My office is Prescott 409. I am only on campus a few days a week; if you want to meet with me it is best to schedule an appointment.
Stacy is a distinguished researcher in the National Security Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and Director of Research for CEROC at Tennessee Technological University. For ten years or so Stacy was the Chief Cybersecurity Research Scientist and the Program Manager for Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems, helping to create the cybersecurity program at ORNL. Stacy is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Transportation Electrification Community and has been awarded a few patents and an R&D 100 award.
Stacy has been a professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Georgetown University, and Carnegie Mellon University (in the Information Networking Institute and CERT). He has worked for Ericsson, been involved in two startups, and done a random assortment of contract work. The first computer language Stacy learned was hand-assembled 6800 on a computer he built himself, followed by 6510 assembly. He spent way too much time reverse-engineering the firmware of a disk drive once. He used punch cards at Tennessee Tech one summer while in high school. He’s old. Stacy is a Tennessee native and grew up on a working farm in Manchester, Tennessee.
Stacy has led the writing of two books: one on software engineering and one on security. The first did better than the second, but the second was more fun, though very uneven (we all wrote different chapters on deadline). He’s also written a suspiciously well-cited discourse on Markov chain computations for some reason.
Stacy was awarded an MS (1995) and Ph.D. (1996) in computer science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is a senior member of the IEEE, Sigma Xi, and AAAS. He likes dogs.
Current research interests?
- Using ML to create digital twins
- High-security data pools
- In-memory detection of malware
- Side-channel malware detection
- Statistical modeling of blended security threats
- Probably other stuff