Security

[Overview]   [Faculty]   [Projects]   [Courses]

Security focuses on the application of systems, information, human-centered systems, foundations of computing and intelligent systems to information security, homeland security and transportation.

Faculty

Nancy Amato, Professor   (Motion planning, computational biology, robotics, computational geometry, animation, CAD, VR, parallel and distributed computing, parallel algorithms, performance modeling, and optimization)

Riccardo Bettati, Professor   (Distributed real-time systems, scheduling algorithms, communication protocols, traffic analysis, and anonymity and privacy)

James Caverlee, Assistant Professor  (Web-scale information management, distributed data-intensive systems, information retrieval, databases, and social computing)

Guofei Gu, Assistant Professor  (Network security, system security, intrusion detection, malware detection, analysis, and defense)

Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Associate Professor   (Intelligent sensors, speech processing, face recognition, machine olfaction, neuromorphic computation, mobile robotics, pattern recognition, machine learning)

Eun Jung Kim, Assistant Professor   (Computer architecture, power efficient systems, parallel/distributed systems, cluster computing, performance evaluation, and fault-tolerant computing)

Jyh-Charn (Steve) Liu, Professor   (Real-time distributed computing systems, network performance and security, medical informatics)

Rabi N. Mahapatra, Associate Professor   (Embedded systems, system-on-chip, reconfigurable architectures, real-time systems, cyber infrastructure, semantic networks)

Robin Murphy, Professor   (Artificial intelligence as applied to emergency informatics, especially tactical land, sea, and air vehicles; human-robot interaction, heterogeneous teams, victim management, and perceptual directed behavior-based control)

Lawrence Rauchwerger, Professor   (Compilers for parallel and distributed computing, parallel and distributed C++ libraries, adaptive runtime optimizations, architectures for parallel computing)

Dylan Shell, Assistant Professor    (Distributed AI, biologically-inspired multi-robot systems, coordinated system, analysis of multi-agent systems, crowd modeling)

Frank Shipman, Professor  (Intelligent user interfaces, hypertext, computers and education, multimedia, new media, computers and design, computer-human interaction, computer-supported cooperative work)

Radu Stoleru, Assistant Professor   (Deeply embedded wireless sensor systems, distributed systems, embedded and real-time computing, computer networking)

Glen Williams, Professor   (Computer graphics, scientific and engineering applications, computational mathematics)

Projects

Guofei Gu - Secure Communication & Computer Systems (SUCCESS) Lab Current computer and network security projects

Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna - PRISM Lab
     Signal processing methods for voice conversion - wearable physiological sensors - active chemical sensing - caricature-based face perception

Steve Liu - Real Time Distributed Systems Lab
     Cybersecurity Remote Education Access Toolkits (CREAT), (NSF), Secure Sharing of Information for Distance Collaboration, (NSF), Performance impact of Worms-Viruses Under Different Transport Mechanisms, (KMIC)

Courses

CSCE 665. Advance Networking and Security. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to various modern topics in computer and network security. It will provide a thorough grounding in computer and network security suitable for those interested in conducting research in this area, as well as students more broadly interested in real-world security issues/techniques.