Critical Infrastructure Security & Emergency Response research focuses on securing and sustaining mission-critical systems whose disruption or compromise would produce cascading societal, economic, and safety impacts. The scope spans energy systems (power grids, microgrids, and distributed energy resources), transportation and intelligent mobility (V2X/V2I), industrial control systems (ICS/SCADA), healthcare, communications, and other lifeline services. This work is anchored in the University of Houston’s designation as a National Security Agency Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, reflecting a commitment to high-assurance cybersecurity research, education, and workforce development.
Collectively, the Critical Infrastructure Security and Resiliency cluster produces secure protocols, reference architectures, and policy-relevant frameworks that enable prevention, graceful degradation, rapid recovery, and sustained trust—supporting operators, researchers, regulators, and public agencies in strengthening national and societal resilience against cyber-physical and quantum-era threats.
