"UC Santa Cruz Engineers Join Major Transportation Cybersecurity Project"

As part of a new national center, UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers will play an important role in protecting US transportation systems from cyber threats. Researchers at UCSC will focus on enhancing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems powering autonomous vehicles such as driverless cars. Nine universities will collaborate on the new National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resilience (TraCR) with the support of a five-year, $20 million grant from the US Department of Transportation. The center will develop hardware and software to defend Internet-connected transportation systems against cyberattacks. Associate Professor Alvaro Cardenas, who will serve as the center's associate director at UCSC, emphasizes that as AI agents become more pervasive in transportation infrastructures, we will need expertise in various areas to operate these systems securely. This article continues to discuss the major transportation cybersecurity project and the UCSC engineers participating in it. 

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