Fred Wright

Fred Wright, Ph.D. Associate Lab Director and Principal Researcher Cyber Technology and Information Security Lab Georgia Tech Research Institute Dr. Fred Wright has over thirty years of experience in research and development at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in defense and cyber security technologies and concepts. Dr. Wright serves as the Associate Laboratory Director of the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL). Dr. Wright’s current research focus is on novel security architectures, risk assessments, and cyber/electronic warfare convergence. As an Adjunct Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Computer Science, he works with students and professors to identify new applied research and technology integration opportunities. Dr. Wright has a broad experience base in a variety of technical areas, including cyber security, electronic warfare, communications systems, signal processing, signals intelligence, and radar. Dr. Wright is a recognized expert in cyber security in both the public and private sector. He has authored dozens of technical papers, developed and taught a variety of cyber defense related short courses, and delivered invited papers on cyber security topics at numerous professional conferences and symposiums globally. For the past 10 years, he has focused on security issues that reside in the “innovation gap”, the vulnerability region that exists between commercially available defensive technologies and emerging cyber threats. As a result, his research is focused on the most challenging problems in protecting enterprises. One example is critical data protection for large enterprises where robust, complex systems engineering approaches are needed to address architecture, defensive solutions, security operations, and policy. Dr. Wright earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Memphis State University and, both his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.