Kevin Lough

Kevin Lough

Senior Cybersecurity Operations Engineer, ET Cybersecurity Ops Engr
  • kjlough@asu.edu
  • USB Room 2657 Tempe, AZ 85287-6312
  • Mail code: 6312
    Campus: Tempe
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As a researcher and aspiring academic specializing in cybersecurity and encryption protocol, I have always been passionate about technology and pushing the bounds of its capabilities. Toward this end I strive to find evey oportunity to gain further expertise in my field. 

Research Interests

Barrett Honors Thesis                                                                                   Jan. 2018 – May 2019 Monte Carlo methods, combinatorics, and enumeration of closed self-avoiding walks/polyominoes    

SOPS Research Lab, Arizona State University                                           Aug. 2017 – May 2019   Design and implementation of algorithms for distributed systems, time complexity restriction 

Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative                                                   Aug. 2017 – May 2018   Grant recipient and presenter for the Fulton Research Symposium    

National Science Foundation                                                                        Aug. 2017 – May 2019  Funded through Self-organizing particle systems grant (CRS0688)         

Industry Positions

Local Agency Security Officer, ASUPD                                                                  Feb. 2023 – Current

Cybersecurity Analyst, Senior                                                                                Feb. 2023 – Current

ISO (ASU) - Information Security Specialist                                                            Sep. 2021 – Feb. 2023

GPIS (ASU) - Information Security Specialist Management Intern                         Oct. 2019 – Sep. 2021

GPIS (ASU) - Information Security Specialist Student Worker                                Aug. 2018 – Oct. 2019

TerraVerde SOC - Cyber Security Intern                                                                  May 2018 – July 2018

SOPS Labs (ASU) - Undergraduate Researcher                                                   Aug. 2017 – May 2019

CIDSE (ASU) - Teaching Assistant Data Structures & Algorithms                          Aug. 2017 – May 2019     

UTO (ASU) - Technology Specialist                                                                        Oct. 2016 – Aug. 2017                

Pro Bono

Alumni & Volunteer with FIRST Robotics                                                              Aug. 2012 - Present

 

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