Governor's Research Center for Understanding and Disrupting the Illicit Economy
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The Center is a highly collaborative, multi-institutional effort involving four South Dakota universities. The universities involved and their respective expertise/interests are given below.
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Areas of interest and expertise include security printing, track and track of commodities, and investigation of graph-theoretic approaches to understanding illicit communities.
Contact: Dr. Jon Kellar, Jon.Kellar@sdsmt.edu
Dakota State University
Areas of interest and expertise include Cybersecurity, Cybercrime Investigation, and Dark Web Investigations. Key initiatives focus on advanced techniques for identifying and mitigating cyber threats, uncovering and analyzing cybercriminal activities, and leveraging innovative tools to navigate and investigate the complexities of the dark web.
Contact: Dr. Ashley Podhradsky, Ashley.Podhradsky@dsu.edu
University of South Dakota
Areas of interest and expertise include the fabricating of functional materials for anti-counterfeiting and illicit drug detection, designing security markers for refrigerant industry, and research on sex trafficking among Native Americans.
Contact: Dr. C.Y. Jiang, Jiang, cy.jiang@usd.edu
South Dakota State University
Areas of interest and expertise include authentication of materials using physical and chemical features, advanced statistical methods for grouping complex materials, and evaluation of illicit activity correlations, and counterterrorism science.
Contact: Dr. Brian Logue, Brian.Logue@sdstate.edu