AAE PhD student Cesare Guariniello receives 2016 CERIAS Diamond Award

AAE PhD student Cesare Guariniello is the recipient of the 2016 Diamond Award from Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). The annual award recognizes a graduating student who, like coal, is put under a lot of pressure to emerge a “diamond.”

AAE PhD student Cesare Guariniello is the recipient of the 2016 Diamond Award from Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). The annual award recognizes a graduating student who, like coal, is put under a lot of pressure to emerge a “diamond.”

CERIAS Executive Director Gene Spafford says Diamond Award recipients have faced various kinds of difficulties on their road to success. He says Cesare’s main obstacle was that he is not a U.S. citizen. Spafford says this means Cesare has faced a set of restrictions that make it difficult to gain access to some necessary data and software. But Spafford says Cesare has had great success despite that obstacle, including being an integral part of the System-of-Systems research group and being first author on a number of peer-reviewed papers.

“Cesare in general is just an outstanding scholar,” says Spafford. “He is one of the kinds of people that we are so proud to have here.”

Cesare is a student of AAE Professor Daniel DeLaurentis. He received the award at CERIAS 2016, the 17th annual Information and Security Symposium, which was held April 19-20, 2016 at Purdue.