System Safety and Cybersecurity Group
The goal of the System Safety and Cybersecurity Group is to create new tools and processes that will allow us to engineer a safer world. Engineering safer systems requires multi-disciplinary and collaborative research based on sound system engineering principles, that is, it requires a holistic systems approach. Our group has participants from multiple engineering disciplines and MIT schools as well as collaborators at other universities and in other countries. Current students are working on safety in aviation (aircraft and air transportation systems), spacecraft, medical devices and healthcare, automobiles, railroads, nuclear power, defense systems, energy, and large manufacturing/process facilities.
Cross-discipline topics include:
- Hazard analysis
- Accident causality analysis and accident investigation
- Safety-guided design
- Human factors and safety
- Integrating safety into the system engineering process
- Identifying leading indicators of increasing risk
- Certification, regulation, and standards
- The role of culture, social, and legal systems on safety
Featured Projects
- NASA Aviation Safety Program: Modeling and Analysis of Safety in New Human-Automation Teaming
- Safety of Medivac Flights in Degraded Visual Environments
- Safety and Security of Aircraft using Manned-Unmanned Teaming
- Safety and Security in the Army Future Vertical Lift Program
- AI Safety Improvement Process Framework
- Extended Investigation of System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) to complex autonomous systems
- Aircraft Certification and Safety Assessment