Oliver Kosut received B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2010. Since 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer Engineering at ASU. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT from 2010 to 2012. Prof. Kosut received the NSF CAREER award in 2015.

His research interests focus on bringing theoretical insights to bear on complex systems. His primary research focuses on three areas: (i) network information theory, with a focus on security against active, malicious attackers; (ii) smart grid cyber-security; and (iii) finite blocklength information theory.