Dr. Nitesh Saxena, professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University and Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow, is part of a research team that was recently awarded a $6.2 million grant from the highly competitive Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. Given over five years, the funds will support their work investigating human cognitive security in various information environments.
Collaborators on the project include researchers from the United States Air Force Academy and the University of Colorado Boulder. Saxena is the sole Texas A&M principal investigator, and the university will receive $1.2 million from the grant.
This story originally appeared on the College of Engineering.
