Dr. Arupjyoti (Arup) Bhuyan is the director of the Wireless Security Institute and a Directorate Fellow at INL. His research focuses on secure implementation of future generations of wireless communications, with scientific exploration and engineering innovations across the fields of wireless technology, cybersecurity and computational science. His goals are to lead wireless security research efforts on a) 5G and FutureG/6G for mission critical communication; b) Cellular operation and security solutions utilizing the Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC) in Open RAN; c) Secure communications for a nationwide cellular unmanned aerial systems/drones; d) Secure 5G spectrum sharing with distributed scheduling; e) Secure spectrum co-existence of incumbents and commercial wireless systems including Wi-Fi; and f) Wireless reliability and security assessment for nuclear power plants.

Bhuyan is the primary investigator of the 5G Threat Assessment program’s work at INL for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the Department of Defense. He currently leads a research team with representatives from INL, the University of Notre Dame, Electrical Power Research Institute and Pennsylvania State University to study harmful interference of commercial outdoor Wi-Fi 6E devices, operating in the 6 gigahertz band on the utility incumbents with real-world data. A security assessment of the 6 gigahertz band is also being conducted in this research.

He received his doctorate in engineering and applied sciences from Yale University. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He holds seven patents and has over seventy peer-reviewed publications.