Junjie Zhang

Junjie Zhang

Associate Professor · Director of the Cyber Security Program

Grants & Contracts

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), RAMPS Program, “SecureAM Pathways: Building an Employer-Led Ohio Cybersecurity Workforce for Advanced Manufacturing,” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PIs: Ahsan Mian and Wen Zhang; Funding: $199,889; Period: Oct. 2026–Sep. 2028.

  2. National Security Agency (NSA), “A Game-Based Learning Framework for K-12 AI-Cyber Education,” PI: Phu Phung (University of Dayton), Co-PIs: Junjie Zhang (Wright State University) and Mark Reith (Air Force Institute of Technology); Total award: $499,816.85; Zhang’s share: $62,161.31; Period: Aug. 2026–Jul. 2028.

  3. National Security Agency (NSA) through Purdue University Northwest, “Advancing Cybersecurity Workforce With Purdue University Northwest,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $31,987; Period: Sep. 2025–Sep. 2027.

  4. Ohio Department of Higher Education, “Integrative Digital Engineering Approaches for Advanced Air Mobility,” PI: Darryl Ahner, Co-PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $896,096; Period: Feb. 2024–Jun. 2025.

  5. Ohio Cyber Range Institute, “Digital Forensics: A Hands-on and Interdisciplinary Approach Curriculum,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $15,000; Period: 2023–2024.

  6. National Security Agency (NSA), “National Pathways to Success (NPS): Establishing a National Cybersecurity Academic and Career Bridge Consortium for Community College Students,” PI: Fathi Amsaad, Co-PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $704,535; Period: 2023–2025.

  7. Transportation Research Center, “Artificial-Intelligence-Driven Binary-to-Source-Code Function Search,” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PI: Lingwei Chen; Funding: $123,536; Period: 2022–2023.

  8. Ohio Cyber Range Institute, “Load-and-Play Cyber Security Labs,” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PI: Lingwei Chen; Funding: $50,000; Period: 2022–2023.

  9. Transportation Research Center, “AI-Driven Intelligent Firmware Analysis,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $115,995; Period: 2021–2022.

  10. Ohio Cyber Range Institute, “Developing Cybersecurity Labs Using Interactive Programming,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $15,000; Period: 2021.

  11. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), “Assured Digital Microelectronics Education & Training Ecosystem,” PI: Vance Saunders, Co-PIs: Junjie Zhang, Yan Zhuang, Saiyu Ren, and Henry Chen; Total award: $29.75 million; Zhang’s share: $200,478; Period: 2020–2023.

  12. Transportation Research Center, “Scalable Firmware Analysis,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $100,000; Period: 2020–2021.

  13. Transportation Research Center, “Intelligent Firmware Modeling,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $100,000; Period: 2019–2020.

  14. Transportation Research Center, “Mission-Oriented Intelligent Firmware Modeling (cont.),” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $50,000; Period: 2018–2019.

  15. Transportation Research Center, “Mission-Oriented Intelligent Firmware Modeling,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $50,000; Period: 2018.

  16. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR), Phase II through Knowledge Base Systems, Inc., “Developing Training Capabilities to Increase Operational System Resiliency,” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PIs: Vance Saunders and Subhashini Ganapathy; Funding: $224,658; Period: 2017–2019.

  17. National Science Foundation (NSF), Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program, Center for Surveillance Research (CSR), “T-RADAR: Fingerprinting Embedded Systems Using Passive and Active Network Traffic Analysis,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $50,000; Period: 2017–2018.

  18. Ohio Department of Higher Education, “Center for Continuous Cybersecurity Education and Training (C3ET) in West Ohio (cont.) (Rapids2),” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PI: Vance Saunders; Funding: $486,834; Period: 2017–2019.

  19. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) through Wright Brothers Institute, “Detecting and Analyzing Security Vulnerabilities for the Unmanned Systems Autonomy Services Architecture (Summer Innovation 2017),” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $90,620; Period: 2017.

  20. National Science Foundation (NSF), “REU Site: Cyber Security Research at Wright State University,” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PI: Bin Wang; Funding: $358,474; Period: 2016–2019.

  21. Ohio Department of Higher Education, “Center for Continuous Cybersecurity Education and Training (C3ET) in West Ohio (Rapids1),” PI: Junjie Zhang, Co-PI: Vance Saunders; Funding: $541,344; Period: 2016–2018.

  22. National Science Foundation (NSF), Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program, Center for Surveillance Research (CSR), “Vulnerability Detection for Cyber-Physical Systems,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $50,000; Period: 2016–2017.

  23. Ball Aerospace, “Scalable Vulnerability Assessment for Large Cyber-Physical Systems,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $30,000; Period: 2014–2015.

  24. Ball Aerospace, “Automatically Detecting and Analyzing Cyber-Physical System Vulnerabilities and Attack Paths,” PI: Junjie Zhang; Funding: $50,000; Period: 2013–2014.

  25. Department of Defense / Air Force Office of Scientific Research (DoD/AFOSR), “DURIP: Software and Hardware Infrastructure for Energy-Efficient Large-Scale Complex Language Modeling,” PI: Shaojun Wang, Co-PIs: Junjie Zhang, Keke Chen and Amit Sheth; Funding: $492,500; Period: 2013–2014.