George Cybenko

Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering

Thayer School of Engineering

Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755 USA

Short Bio:
George Cybenko is the Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth. Professor Cybenko has made key research contributions in signal processing, neural computing, parallel processing and computational behavioral analysis. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/AIP Computing in Science and Engineering and IEEE Security & Privacy. Professor Cybenko is a Fellow of the IEEE and received his BS (University of Toronto) and PhD (Princeton) degrees in Mathematics.

Current Research Interests:

Computational Behavioral Analysis

Machine Learning of Processes

Mission, Network and Computer Security

Insider Threat Analysis

Human Terrain of Computer Networks

Computer Network Operations (CNO) Planning

Selected Recent Publications: (If not linked to here…do a Google search please)

“Learning Hidden Markov Models using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization,” G. Cybenko and V. Crespi, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2011.

“Quantitative Evaluation of Risk for Investment Efficient Strategies in Cybersecurity: The QuERIES Methodology'.” L. Carin, G. Cybenko and J. Hughes, IEEE Computer, August 2008.

“The Theory of Trackability with Applications to Sensor Networks,” V. Crespi, G. Cybenko and G. Jiang, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, May 2008.

“Process Query Systems,” V. Berk and G. Cybenko, IEEE Computer, January 2007.

“HBML: A Representation Language for Quantitative Behavioral Modeling in the Human Terrain,” N. Sandell, R. Savell, D. Twardowski and G. Cybenko, SBP09, Phoenix, AZ, March 2009.

“Behavioral Analysis of Loosely Coupled Systems,” N. Sandell and G. Cybenko, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando April 2010.

“Synchronization Properties of Cyber Behaviors”, D. C. Twardowski, G. Cybenko, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando April 2010.

“Exploratory Community Sensing in Social Networks,” A. Khrabrov, G. Stocco and G. Cybenko, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando April 2010.

“Hypergame Theory applied to Cyber Attack and Defense,” J. T. House and G. Cybenko, SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando April 2010.

“Discovering Influence in Communication Networks using Dynamic Graph Analysis,” A. Khrabrov and G. Cybenko, HTH ECCS 2010.

Links to many more papers can be found at

Google Scholar and my old web page

I frequently get requests for some older papers that are otherwise hard to find so I have links to them here.

“Dynamic load balancing for distributed memory multiprocessors,” Journal on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 7, pp.279-301, 1989.

“Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function,” Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems, Vol. 2, pp.303-314, 1989.

Current Ph.D. Students:

David C. Twardowski

Gabriel Stocco

Nils F. Sandell

James Thomas House

Alexy Khrabrov

Graduated Ph.D. Students: (see the Mathematics Genealogy Project for more details)

Name	University	Year	Presently…
Vincent Berk	Universiteit Leiden	2006	Dartmouth
Daniel Bilar	Dartmouth College	2003	U. of New Orleans
Brian Brewington	Dartmouth College	2000	Google
Wayne Chung	Dartmouth College	2006	IDA
Alva Couch	Tufts University	1988	Tufts
Annarita Giani	Dartmouth College	2006	UC Berkeley
Ashifi Gogo	Dartmouth College	2010	Sproxil Inc
Robert Gray	Dartmouth College	1997	BAE Systems
Katsuhiro Moizumi	Dartmouth College	1998	Furukawa. Electric Co., Sendai Japan
Glenn Nofsinger	Dartmouth College	2006	BAE Systems
David Robinson	Dartmouth College	2010	AFIT, Dayton Ohio
Sirpa Saarinen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1994	Deceased (formerly Wolfram Research)
Yong Sheng	Dartmouth College	2006	Google
Bryan Usevitch	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1993	UT El Paso