LTC Joseph Catudal, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Army Cyber Institute Electrical Engineering & Computer Science joseph.catudal [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications LTC Joseph (Joe) Catudal is a Senior Research Scientist in the Cyber Operations Research and Engineering (CORE) Team, Army Cyber Institute. He is a Data Systems Engineer with experience in tactical communications planning and operations, as well as cyber security. His research interests are in the areas of computer and network security, cryptography, internet measurement and metrics, optical internet infrastructure, and sensing systems. Ph.D. Computer Science - University of Wisconsin Madison M.S. Computer Science - University of Wisconsin Madison M.S. Cyber Systems and Operations (with Distinction) - Naval Postgraduate School B.S. Computer Science - University of North Georgia Research Interests Computer Security, Network Security, Internet Measurement, Internet Metrics, Optical Internet Infrastructure, Cryptography, Sensing Systems Selected Publications Catudal, Joseph W. Practical Environmental Sensing on Optical Communication Infrastructure. PhD Dissertation. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024. Catudal, Joseph, et al. "Environmental Sensing Using Commodity Optical Transceivers: Laboratory and Field Studies." Journal of Lightwave Technology (2024). Catudal, Joseph, et al. "Homebrew: Optical Polarization Change Detection for Ground Motion Sensing." Optical Fiber Communication Conference. Optica Publishing Group, 2024. Coffey, Sean M., Joseph W. Catudal, and Nathaniel D. Bastian. "Differential privacy to mathematically secure fine-tuned large language models for linguistic steganography." Assurance and Security for AI-enabled Systems. Vol. 13054. SPIE, 2024. Catudal, Joseph, et al. "On the Efficacy of Using Commodity Optical Transceivers for Environmental Sensing." Optical Fiber Sensors. Optica Publishing Group, 2023. Catudal, Joseph, et al. "Toward Internet Photonic Sensing: Sensitivity Analysis of Commodity Transport Hardware." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 2022. 2022. Cunningham, Erin, et al. "Characterizing Dark Fiber DAS along a University Campus Route." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. Vol. 2022. 2022. Catudal, Joseph W. Blind data attack on BGP routers. Master’s Thesis. Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017.