Security
Security involves safeguarding software systems, embedded systems IoT (Internet of Things), mobile systems, and cyber-physical systems from threats such as software vulnerabilities, attacks, and other types of malicious and harmful activity. CISE researchers apply a variety of techniques from a number of fields (program analysis, machine learning, computational social science) to better understand such systems and the way in which people interact with them and misuse them. Research in CISE includes development of automated dynamic malware-analysis techniques and tools to analyze potentially malicious samples. Another line of research involves hardening the security of wireless ingestible and implantable medical devices (IMDs), such as on-demand drug delivery systems and bio-engineered wireless medical sensors, for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
PFI:BIC A Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE)
This NSF Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project from Boston University will research, prototype, and evaluate novel “smart-city” services for the city of Boston and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The centerpiece of the project is a Smart-city Cloud-based Open Platform and Ecosystem (SCOPE), which creates a multisided marketplace for smart-city services based […]
TWC: TTP Option: Frontier: Collaborative: MACS: A Modular Approach to Cloud Security
The goal of the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) project is to develop methods for building information systems with meaningful multi-layered security guarantees. The modular approach of MACS focuses on systems that are built from smaller and separable functional components, where the security of each component is asserted individually, and where the security of […]
Opening Movements: Your next security ID may be a defining gesture
To the casual passerby, Janusz Konrad seems a bit fanatical about tai chi: standing in his office, waving one arm to and fro, then spreading both arms and bringing them together. Duck inside, however, and you’ll notice he’s not stretching for his health; he’s stretching for a camera, and images on a computer monitor are […]
CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: A Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for the “Smart City”
The project aims at making cities “smarter” by engineering processes such as traffic control, efficient parking services, and new urban activities such as recharging electric vehicles. To that end, the research will study the components needed to establish a Cyber-Physical Infrastructure for urban environments and address fundamental problems that involve data collection, resource allocation, real-time […]
TWC: Medium: Collaborative: Towards Secure, Robust, and Usable Gesture-Based Authentication
This project investigates the feasibility of secure, robust, and usable gesture-based authentication as an alternative to traditional alphanumeric passwords and biometrics. It is motivated by the rapid increase in authentication-related security breaches and by the emergence of new human-computer interfaces. While the breaches have demonstrated the seriousness of the issue, two emerging types of gesture-based […]