Drs. Lan and Venkataramani win the 2017 Hegarty Award for Faculty Innovation

Congratulations to Dr. Tian Lan and Dr. Guru Venkataramani, the 2017 winners of the Hegarty Award for Faculty Innovation. This $10,000 award was created by SEAS alumnus Aran Hegarty (MS ’97) and his wife, Fritz, to recognize and reward a faculty member (or members) for innovation.  Drs. Lan and Venkataramani invented the first Intelligence‐driven Solution for Rapid Cyber Defense (Rapid‐ID) and have demonstrated that for software systems at scale, Rapid‐ID can swiftly generate threat intelligence and optimize counter‐actions at a speed that is at least three orders of magnitude faster than the state‐of‐the‐art. This revolutionary solution has attracted interest from several companies and government labs.  Three patents have been filed or are currently under submission.