George Lake
Clinical Senior Instructor, ESTEC, Idaho State University
I teach and study industrial automation and ICS/OT cybersecurity, drawing on a background in process instrumentation, control panels, safety PLCs, and SCADA. My courses cover SCADA and industrial control systems, automation, and applied AI.
I am also completing a master's in computer science. My thesis extends Redux, an interactive platform for computational problems, with visualizations of classical encryption (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, and AES) and of the quantum algorithms, Shor's and Grover's, that attack them.
Teaching
Course materials for my classes are on the teaching page.
Research interests
- Industrial automation: SCADA, PLCs, and control systems
- ICS/OT security and consequence-driven engineering
- Agentic AI for industrial control systems
- Machine learning for industrial systems
- Visualizing classical and quantum cryptography