LTC Devon Callahan Assistant Professor Course Director, CY305 Cyber Foundations Electrical Engineering & Computer Science devon.callahan [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications LTC Callahan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut, a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Methodist University.His research interests encompass AI and Machine Learning, Cyber Security, Network Optimization, Systems Design, and Integration and Testing. His work emphasizes network science across both computer and social networks, advancing applications in these fields.At the United States Military Academy, LTC Callahan has taught courses including CY305 Cyber Foundations, CY300 Programming Fundamentals, CY350 Network Engineering and Management, IT105 Introduction to Computing and Information Technology, CS393 Database Systems, and CS484 Advanced Networks with a focus on Software Defined Networks.Lieutenant Colonel Devon Callahan began his career as a Signal Soldier, enlisting with the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY, and rising to the rank of Staff Sergeant. He commissioned through Officer Candidate School and has since held numerous leadership roles. As a Lieutenant he served as Platoon Leader and Company Executive Officer in the 327th Signal Battalion at Fort Bragg, NC, with deployments to Afghanistan. As a Captain, LTC Callahan served with the 10th Mountain Division, first in the Division G6 and later as Commander of Bravo Company, 10th Sustainment Brigade, where he deployed to Afghanistan again. His role as a Major includes three years on faculty with the EECS Department, United States Military Academy. He later commanded the Satcom Station at Camp Roberts, California, and served as a Signal Advisor to the Royal Saudi Air Defense Force as part of the U.S. Military Training Mission Task Force. LTC Callahan currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the EECS Department at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Ph.D. - University of ConnecticutM.S. - University of South CarolinaB.S. - Methodist University Research Interests AI-Machine Learning, Networks (computer and social), Cyber Security, Network Optimization, Systems Design/Integration/Testing Selected Publications https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CBhIv0YAAAAJ&hl=en D. Callahan, T. Curry, H. Davidson, H. Zitoun, B. Fuller and L. Michel, “FASHION: Functional and Attack Graph Secured Hybrid Optimization of Virtualized Networks, in IEEE Trans- actions on Dependable and Secure Computing, TDSC 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9857645/Curry, T., Callahan, D., Fuller, B., Michel, L. “DOCSDN: Dynamic and Optimal Configuration of Software-Defined Networks, In 24th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21548-4_25 Paulo Shakarian, Patrick Roos, Devon Callahan, and Cory Kirk, “Mining for geographically disperse communities in social networks by leveraging distance modularity,” In Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD ’13), pp 1402–1409, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2487575.2488194 Shakarian, Paulo and Simari, Gerardo I and Callahan, Devon, “Reasoning about complex networks: A logic programming approach,” Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, Volume 13, Issue 4-5, 2013. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3349266.3351401 Callahan, Devon, Paulo Shakarian, Jeffrey Nielsen, and Anthony N. Johnson., “Shaping operations to attack robust terror networks, In 2012 International Conference on Social Informatics, pp. 13-18. IEEE, 2012 (Top 5% published in ASE Human Journal). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6542416/