About

I’m an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy. I did my graduate school work at Vanderbilt University and my undergraduate at USMA, all in electrical engineering. My professional experience has focused more on cyberspace and I’m currently running the Cyber Research Center in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at USMA.

I’m creating this site mainly for fun - and to document some things better. Please feel free to use anything you find useful. I just ask that you cite me where appropriate.

The opions expressed on this site are solely my own and do not reflect the opinions of the Department of Defense, U.S. Army, or the United States Military Academy.

A Few Recent Publications

  1. R. Blaine, J. Blair, C. Chewar, R. Harrison, J. Raftery, and E. Sobiesk, “Creating a Multifarious Cyber Science Major,” In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ‘21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1205–1211. doi . Awarded Best Paper

  2. D. Hawthorne, M. Kapralos, R. Blaine, and S. Matthews, “Evaluating Cryptographic Performance of Raspberry Pi Clusters,” 2020 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), Waltham, MA, USA, 2020, pp. 1-9, doi.

  3. P. Donner, A. St. Leger, and R. Blaine, “Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Synchrophasor Network Traffic,” Proc. Of the IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), pp. 1-6, October, 2019. doi.