The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
The Center for Education and Research inInformation Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
This July, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Purdue Polytechnic’s Wenhai Sun with a five-year grant of $500,000. Sun, an assistant professor in computer and information technology, received NSF’s CAREER award for promising early-career faculty for his proposal to develop machine intelligence-powered privacy protection technology with implications for end users and online service providers.
Taram wins ACM SIGMICRO Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Mohammadkazem Taram at Purdue University, Department of Computer Science for winning the 2023 ACM SIGMICRO Dissertation Award.
The NSF is accelerating 5G solutions to assist the U.S. government and critical infrastructure operators to communicate securely by awarding $25M to five interdisciplinary teams. Sonia Fahmy, professor of computer science and associate department head for the Department of Computer Science is a co-PI for the Zero Trust X (ZTX) team. The team secured a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator Track G award: Securely Operating Through 5G Infrastructure.
Assured autonomy is rapidly gaining traction in U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) circles. The term broadly relates to how to put security into autonomous operations. Assurance will encourage people to adopt autonomous systems, and reduce societal harm from insecure autonomous systems. We talked with experts at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the ARL-funded Assured Autonomy Innovation Institute (A212) at Purdue about assured autonomy, its current state, what the institute is doing, and what the future holds.
