Duminda Wijesekera, Professor, Cyber Security Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), received funding for: “Operational Technology Digital Twin and Scanning Support.”
He will develop two simultaneous strands of work, that will be merged at the end:
Additionally, he will coordinate with Datalytica’s modeling team to optimize camera placement and validate temporal/spatial synchronization of incoming data.
Wijesekera received $50,000 from Datalytica, LLC, for this project. Funding began in Aug. 2025 and will end in late Nov. 2025.
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