George Amariucai

Associate Professor

Contact information

2169 Engineering Hall
amariucai@k-state.edu
http://people.cs.ksu.edu/~amariucai/

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2009
• M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 2004
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 2003

Professional experience

Amariucai received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. Between 2009 and 2017, he served at Iowa State University, first as an adjunct assistant professor and then as an adjunct associate professor.

Research

Amariucai's research interests lie in the area of privacy and cyber security. His work intersects with a multitude of related fields, such as probability and information theory, cryptography, theoretical and applied machine learning, and wireless communications. He has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on multiple federal and international research grants, totaling well over $10 million, for privacy and cybersecurity projects focused on a wide range of topics, from practical privacy solutions to the security of cyber-physical systems, and from the safety and reliability of complex interconnected systems to unconventional secure key establishment.

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