Benjamin Drozdenko

Benjamin M. Drozdenko is an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at RWU who has 20 years of prior engineering experience in government, academia, and industry. Dr. Drozdenko currently serves as the Cybersecurity Science & Technology (S&T) lead at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT). He is currently leading Cybersecurity research & development projects in the areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for Cyber, model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for Cyber-survivability, and an ONR-sponsored laboratory project on software de-bloat and hardening. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Drozdenko was an Assistant Professor of Cyber Engineering and Computer Science at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA. He has published in various technical journals such as IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and IEEE Access, as well as conferences including FPL, IEEE GreenTech, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE DCOSS, IEEE INFOCOM workshops, and CROWNCOM. Dr. Drozdenko received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 2017.  His dissertation was titled, “Enabling Protocol Coexistence: Hardware-Software Co-design of Wireless Transceivers on Heterogeneous Computing Architectures.” Dr. Drozdenko worked at MathWorks from 2008 to 2014 as a Training Engineer and Signal Processing Content Specialist. Dr. Drozdenko worked at Raytheon Corp. from 2004 to 2008 as a Systems Engineer supporting an X-band Radar for ballistic missile defense. Dr. Drozdenko received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University in Boston, MA in 2007. Dr. Drozdenko received his B.S. in Computer Science and Computer & Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 2004.