UL’s Dr Muzaffar Rao discusses the professional diploma in OT security programme, and what motivates his research in OT and ICS cybersecurity.
For Dr Muzaffar Rao, University of Limerick (UL) has been a research base for a number of years.
When Rao first joined UL in 2013, he was a PhD student conducting research on reconfigurable hardware for security, specifically field programmable gate array (FPGA)‑based cryptographic systems.
After his PhD, Rao began working at the university as a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, a role that Rao says allowed him to further develop “expertise in hardware‑based cryptographic systems”.
Fast-forward to the current day, and Rao is now an associate professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at UL, as well as an associate investigator with Lero, the Research Ireland Centre for Software.
