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FY26 CCI Faculty Fellows

Shengwei An | Assistant Professor | Virginia Tech

Shengwei An, FY26 CCI Faculty Fellow

 

Shengwei An

Assistant Professor - Virginia Tech

 

Shengwei An is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and core faculty at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. His research focuses on the security and privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, spanning both traditional and generative AI models. His interests include adversarial examples, backdoors, model inversion and membership inference attacks, and intellectual property protection. He has published in top-tier venues such as IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, NDSS, CVPR, and AAAI. An received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Shannon Beck, FY26 CCI Faculty Fellow

 

Shannon Beck

Director - U.S. Cyber Range

 

              Shannon Beck is the Director of the Virginia and U.S. Cyber Ranges at Virginia Tech. She brings experience in cybersecurity education, outreach, and research from her previous roles as an Associate Professor in the Computer and Cyber Sciences department at the United States Air Force Academy, the Program Coordinator for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program at the National Science Foundation, and as a scientist and member of the cybersecurity incident response team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Kent State University.

              Jesse Harden, Assistant Professor - Radford University

              Jesse Harden, FY26 CCI Faculty Fellow

               

              Jesse Harden

              Assistant Professor - Radford University

               

              Jesse Harden is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Radford University. Dr. Harden attended Tidewater Community College before transferring to Radford to complete a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, followed by two Master’s Degrees in Statistics and Data and Information Management, from Radford University’s Data and Information Management (DAIM) program. Dr. Harden received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech before returning to join the faculty at Radford. His research interests focus on large, high-resolution displays and their use in and benefits for data science.