Carl Elks

Carl Elks is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University.12 His career spans over 20 years, focusing on the design and assessment of dependable cyber-physical systems in critical infrastructure such as nuclear power, flight control systems, medical devices, electric power, and transportation.12

Dr. Elks' research interests include:

• Complexity awareness in secure and safe system design
• Fault injection
• Runtime Assurance Architectures
• Cyber threat and vulnerability analysis
• Safety of autonomous systems
• Resilient Cyber Physical Systems
• Lightweight formal verification
• Human Systems Interactions in complex systems
• Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
• Renewable Energy Systems

Before joining VCU in January 2015, Dr. Elks worked as:

• Principal Scientist at UVA (2005-2014)
• Research Scientist at Barron Associates Inc. (2003-2005)
• Electronics Engineer at NASA Langley Research Center (1987-1999)2

Dr. Elks holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, which he obtained in 2005.2 He is a member of IEEE, ANS, and ACM.1 His expertise has contributed to improving safety and security assessment methods for licensing digital safety systems in Nuclear Power Plants.2