Matthew Hicks named CACI Faculty Fellow in Cyber Security
Matthew Hicks, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named the CACI Faculty Fellow in Cyber Security by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The CACI Faculty Fellowship was established through the support of CACI International Inc. to attract and retain leading scholars in the College of Engineering. Recipients hold the fellowship for five years.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2017, Hicks conducts research, teaches, and mentors students working at the intersection of computer architecture, computer security, and embedded systems. His research contributions span hardware and embedded system security, intermittent computation on energy harvesting devices, and microarchitecture-level security.
His publication record includes 24 papers at the most competitive conferences in his field. He is the recipient of two early career awards from federal funding agencies — the National Science Foundation's Early Career Faculty Development Program (CAREER) award and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Young Faculty Award. He has been part of $10.2 million in externally funded research, with a personal share of $3.9 million. He was a recipient of an R&D World Top 100 award and a Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security award from IEEE as well as an IEEE Security and Privacy best paper award.
Hicks regularly teaches cyber security courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has advised or co-advised one postdoctoral scholar, four completed Ph.D. students, 18 master’s degree students, and 11 undergraduate research students.
Hicks received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer at the University of Michigan from 2013-16.
