Education

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Computer Engineering BS, BS/MS
• Computer Engineering Cybersecurity
• Computer Engineering MS
• Electrical Engineering BS, BS/MS
• Electrical Engineering MS
• Electrical Engineering PhD

Research

Research activities

• Software reliability engineering
• System reliability and resilience engineering

Research

Research awards

• $ 499,999 awarded by Commonwealth of Massachusetts for Mass Skills - Intelligent Industrial Robotics and Cyber Security Test Bed
• $ 1,218,640 awarded by National Science Foundation for CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Accelerating Cybersecurity Education, Scholarship and Service
• $ 149,903 awarded by U.S. Department of the Army for Resilience Engineering of Machine Learning-enabled Open World Recognition for Network Intrusion Detection Systems
• $ 94,864 awarded by U.S. Army Research Office for Part-time Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment with US Army Corps of Engineers
• $ 441,043 awarded by Office of Naval Research for UMassD MUST III: Multi Objective Reinforcement Learning for Automated Process Control of Modern Software Practices

Research

Research interests

• Autonomous systems
• Software and system security
• Software processes
• Transportation network vulnerability
• Prognostics and health management

Select publications

• J. Aubertine, K. Chen, V. Nagaraju, and L. Fiondella (2022).
  A Metrics-based Software Tool to Guide Reliability and Security Test Activity Allocation
  SoftwareX
  
• K. Chen, Z. Faddi, V. Nagaraju, and L. Fiondella (2022).
  Quantifying the Impact of Staged Rollout Policies on Software Process and Product Metrics
  Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
  
• C. Ellis, M. Wigness, and L. Fiondella (2022).
  A Mapping of Assurance Techniques for Learning Enabled Autonomous Systems to the Systems Engineering Lifecycle
  IEEE International Conference on Assured Autonomy
  
• Y. Zang and L. Fiondella (2022).
  Network Reliability Analysis for Complex Systems based on Complex Network Theory
  Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
  Society of Reliability Engineers Douglas Ogden Best Paper Award

Lance Fiondella joined the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as an assistant professor in 2013. Presently, he is an associate professor and the Director of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Cybersecurity Center, a NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R). He conducts research in the areas of system and software reliability and resilience engineering and has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers on these topics.

Dr. Fiondella has also held various visiting and honorary appointments with U.S. Government Laboratories and Federally Funded Research & Development Centers (FFRDC), including the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), and United States Army Corps of Engineers. A common theme among his research and government service is a commitment to rigorous scientific methods for test & evaluation in support of the U.S. Warfighter and stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

Latest from Lance

Featured on

• January 31, 2023 The CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Accelerating Cybersecurity Education, Scholarship and Service

External links

• UMass Darmouth Cybersecurity Center