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Information Security and Systems

Meet the faculty


Reda Elhajj

Dr. Elhajj's research concentrates primarily on DATA SCIENCE and NETWORK SCIENCE from management to integration and analysis. Current research efforts include: (1) big data management, analysis and mining, (2) social media and network analysis, (3) systems and computational biology, bioinformatics, health informatics, (4) homeland security, terror and criminal networks, etc., (5) sequence analysis with emphasis on domains like financial, weather, traffic, energy, etc.

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John Aycock

Studying the implementation of old computer games, technical work with links to numerous areas of computer systems, including compilers, interpreters, programming languages, data compression, operating systems, computer security, reverse engineering, code obfuscation, and copy protection.

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Ken Barker

Interested in Privacy Preserving Data Repositories. How can a privacy-aware database management system be built, and how can privacy be preserved when data is being mined.

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Jörg Denzinger

Studies artificial intelligence, knowledge-based systems and search, machine learning, automated deduction, multi-agent systems, coordination and cooperation concepts, learning of cooperative behaviour, collaborative search, learning agents, web agents, and distributed data mining.

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Philip Fong

Philip Fong is interested in Access Control. Specifically, he is interested in studying access control models, policy languages, policy analysis, policy mining, and enforcement mechanisms. Applications include the Internet of Things, social media, and electronic health records systems. 

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Marina Gavrilova

Manages the Biometrics Lab, where students work on a variety of projects from biometric identification and recognition to multi-modal systems design, biometric data synthesis, adaptive methods in biometrics, data fusion and using biometric features in security applications.

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Majid Ghaderi

Research is focused on design, optimization, and implementation of network systems and algorithms.

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Ryan Henry

Investigates research which explores the systems challenges of applied cryptography, with a particular emphasis on using cryptography to build secure systems that preserve the privacy of their users.

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Michael John Jacobson Jr.

Works on problems in cryptography (data security) and computational number theory, especially to do with the efficiency and security of public-key cryptosystems.

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Joel Reardon

Interested in applications (privacy, security, file Systems, networks), foundations (distributed systems, performance evaluation), humanities (social impact of computing, usability) and theoretic (cryptography, combinatorics, graph theory, computation).

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Rei Safavi-Naini

Leads the iCORE Information Security Lab. Her research interests include cryptography, network security, digital and privacy rights management and mobile and sensor security.

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Renate Scheidler

Researches development and implementation of algorithms for computing invariants of number fields and function fields as well as exploring these fields for cryptographic applications.

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Emma Towlson

Interests and skillsets lie in the field of Network Neuroscience

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Mea Wang

Researches networking systems and algorithms, practical applications of theoretical concepts, quality of Services (QoS) and overlay & peer-to-peer protocols.

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