I am an Assistant Professor with the Criminal Justice Department at Temple University. I received my PhD from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in May 2012.

My PhD research explored cybercrimes against critical infrastructures. A nation’s critical infrastructure includes those socio-economic entities (transportation, telecommunications, power plants, water supply systems, emergency services) that are crucial to its everyday functioning and security. With the proliferation of technology, critical infrastructures have become computerized and interconnected, making them vulnerable to cybercrimes that compromise, alter, and/or steal sensitive data. My interests in critical infrastructure research includes offender decision-making, dynamic crime scripts, and criminal organization and operation.

Other research interests include the environmental criminology and offender decision-making; critical infrastructure protection; (international) organized crime; (international) corporate crime; and media portrayls of (cyber)crime; crimes against the environment; (harms) measurement and metrics.

Temple University hosted its first multidisciplinary cybersecurity conference: Cybersecurity in Action, Research and Education (CARE) Con on April 1 & 2, 2016! It was a great success.

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Recent Publications

Rege, A. & Lavogrna, A. (forthcoming). Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: a comparative analysis. European Journal of Criminology.. DOI: 10.1177/1477370816649627

Rege, A. (2016). Incorporating the Human Element in Anticipatory and Dynamic Cyber Defense. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics (ICCCF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

McJunkin, T., Rieger, C., Rege, A., Biswas, S., Haney, M., Santora, M., Johnson, B., Boring, R., Naidu, D.S. & Gardner, J. (2016). Multidisciplinary Game Based Approach for Generating Student Enthusiasm in Addressing Critical Infrastructure Challenges. Proceedings of the 123rd American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Rege, A. (2016). Not Biting the Dust: Using a Tri-Partite Model of Organized Crime to Examine India’s Sand Mafia. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 40(2): 101-121. Read my media interview here

Rege, A. (2015). Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning for Holistic Cybersecurity Education, Research and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 2015 USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games, and Gamification in Security Education.