The expert in human-centered security and privacy will help lead the center for the next five months, after which she will assume a new role as the center’s director.
The team was led by Kevin Bock (in photo), a fourth-year doctoral student in computer science, and his adviser, assistant professor of computer science Dave Levin.
He is presenting next month at the 48th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, a forum for the discussion of all aspects of programming languages and programming systems.
A team of researchers, including UMIACS faculty member Nirupam Roy, demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones.
The goal of Feizi’s project is to design metrics that evaluate a defense’s effectiveness of robustness, scalability in deep networks and transferability across models.
Feizi is designing Reverse Engineer Deceptions (RED), a program that will not only be able to identify the origin of the attack and its sophistication level, but also the most effective defense to use against future attacks.
Kelsey Fulton, an avid rock climber, puts discipline and determination into her research, which explores the human factors of information security with a focus on software developers and security professionals.
Cong Zhang is the inaugural recipient of the MC2 fellowship, which was established earlier this year to attract highly-motivated candidates to UMD to conduct research and scholarship.
