Cliston Cole
Graduate Program Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering
Dr. Cliston Cole received both B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tuskegee University in Electrical Engineering. He also received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working in the Human Speech Recognition group under Prof. Jont Allen. Since 2020, he has been on the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Morgan State University (MSU), where he serves as an Assistant Professor.
Before joining the electrical and computer faculty at MSU, Dr. Cole was a skilled systems and electronic engineer with Raytheon Technologies and NAVAIR, with experience in signal processing for weapon systems for DoD. In 2023, he was a recipient Summer Fellow for the Air Force Research Laboratory, where his mission was to advance reliable, stable, and sustainable communication networks under adversary attacks by implementing resilient distributed algorithms.