About the Director

Dr. Arun Lakhotia
Director; Lockheed Martin Professor,
School of Computing and Informatics

Arun Lakhotia is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Founder CTO of Cythereal, LLC. Over the last decade, he has studied the protection mechanisms malware uses and developed methods to peer through these protections. This research, funded in part by the US DoD, has led to the development of VirusBattle. This automated malware analysis web service draws connections between malware using the semantics of their underlying code. Dr. Lakhotia had a brief foray into robotics, leading Team CajunBot in developing CajunBot, an unmanned Jeep that participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Dr.Lakhotia earned his PhD in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University in 1990. DARPA, AFOSR, AFRL, and ARO have supported his research. He received the 2004 Louisiana Governor's Technology Leader of the Year Award.