COL Stephen Hamilton

Associate Professor

Director - Army Cyber Institute

Personal Website
stephen.hamilton [at] westpoint.edu
COL Stephen Hamilton is the Director of the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy (USMA) located at West Point, New York. In his position as Director, COL Hamilton leads a multi-disciplinary team of military and civilian scholars who provide advisement and research for the U.S. Army. COL Hamilton additionally teaches Cloud Computing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He began his career as a signal officer and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 where he commanded Alpha Company 57th Signal Battalion. Following a tour at USCYBERCOM, he transferred to the Cyber Corps. He holds an extra class amateur radio license, and his research interests include software-defined radios, cloud computing, and data visualization.

PhD

 

Computer Science - The Johns Hopkins University MS

 

Software Engineering - Auburn University BS

 

Computer Science - United States Military Academy

Research Interests

Data Visualization, Software Defined Radios, Web Applications, Edge Computing

Current Research

Edge computing for electromagnetic sensing

Selected Publications

Extreme Event Analysis in Next Generation Simulation Architectures, Stephen Hamilton, Randal Burns, Charles Meneveau, Perry Johnson, Peter Lindstrom, John Patchett, and Alex Szalay. International Super Computing Conference High Performance 2017, June 2017.

Silent Tuning: Matching a transmitter to an antenna without emitting a signal, Robert Melville, Stephen Hamilton. MILCOM 2021.

Secure Jam Resistant Key Transfer: Using the DoD CAC Card to Secure a Radio Link by Employing the BBC Jam Resistant Algorithm, Stephen Hamilton, John A. Hamilton Jr. MILCOM 2008