Dr. Yohannes B. Bekele
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Location: Olin 318E
Phone: (757) 727 – 5719
Email: yohannes.bekele@hamptonu.edu
Expertise:
- Cyber-physical systems and embedded security
- Hardware and microarchitecture vulnerabilities
- Fault injection, reliability analysis, and system emulation
- AI/ML for cybersecurity and intrusion detection
- Edge devices, microcontrollers, and high-performance computing
- STEM and engineering education innovation
Education: Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 2023
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dryohannesbekele/home
Dr. Bekele received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, in 2023; an MSc. in Telecommunication Networks Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in December 2018; and a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, in July 2007. Before he joined the ECE faculty in Fall 2023, he had worked as a graduate research assistant at ADEPT Lab in NCA&T, as a senior engineer and project manager at Ethio Telecom in Ethiopia, and in various technical and management positions. Currently he is teaching courses related to his research area and is working on different research projects on cyber-physical system security and reliable computing. Dr. Bekele is a member of different professional associations, including NSBE and IEEE.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
M. H. Bhavsar, Y. B. Bekele, K. Roy, J. C. Kelly and D. Limbrick, “FL-IDS: Federated Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System Using Edge Devices for Transportation IoT,” in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 52215-52226, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3386631.
Y. Bekele, D. Limbrick & J. Kelly, “A Survey of QEMU-based Fault Injection Tools & Techniques for Emulating Physical Faults,” 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3287503.
Yohannes Bekele and Mansi Bhavsar, “GreenFL-IDS: Energy-Aware Federated Intrusion Detection for Transportation Edge IoT,” 2nd International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering Researches, ICECER2025, Antananarivo, Madagascar, 2025 (Accepted).
Yohannes Bekele, Otsebele Nare and Ikemefuna Uba, “Revolutionizing Cybersecurity Education in Undergraduate Curriculum by Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models,” ASEE Southeast Conference, 2026 (Accepted).
Yohannes Bekele, Ahmed Yiwere, and Daniel B. Limbrick, “Rowhammer Attacks on the Raspberry Pi 3B+,” Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference (GOMACTech), March 2021.
B. Bekele and Y. Negash, “Power-Aware Routing in Optical Transport Networks With Physical Layer Impairment Constraints,” 2021, IEEE AFRICON, Arusha, Tanzania, United Republic of, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/AFRICON51333.2021.9570896.
