Richard Skowyra

Scientist, Cyber Systems and Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Richard Skowyra became an Institute Visiting Fellow during Summer 2014 as part of the new BU/LL Research Collaboration. Rick joined the Cyber Systems and Technologies Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in June 2014, where he conducts research on the safety of distributed systems. His expertise and research interests include cyber security, software-defined networks, networking, formal logic and verification, domain-specifc languages, and the theory of distributed systems. Currently, Dr. Skowyra is developing systems and networks that can operate securely even when compromised by malicious actors. His work focuses on developing new, verifiably secure moving-target defenses, as well as the evaluation of existing techniques.