About

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 180 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, including the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), as well as the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC). A common theme among his research and government service is a commitment to rigorous scientific methods for test & evaluation of modern technological systems in support of the U.S. Warfighter and stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

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Honors

2nd Place in Tom Fagan Student Paper Competition
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2022
Society of Reliability Engineers Douglas Ogden Best Paper Award
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2022
Faculty Award for Excellence in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (United States, New Bedford) - UMD, 2021
Senior Member
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (United States, Piscataway) - IEEE, 2020
2nd Place in Tom Fagan Student Paper Competition
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2020
Society of Reliability Engineers Stan Ofsthun Best Student Paper Award
Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 2020

Organizational Affiliations

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Director, Cybersecurity Center, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Past Affiliations

Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Connecticut

Education

Computer Science & Engineering
2012, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
Computer Science & Engineering
2003, Master of Science (MS), University of Connecticut
Computer Science
1999, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Eastern Connecticut State University (United States, Willimantic) - ECSU