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Cyber Security Research at Binghamton UniversityBinghamton
University has a well-established program in security research and
education managed by a dynamic group of faculty members. Security
research at Binghamton has been funded by over 7 million dollars in
external funding over the last three years. Binghamton also has an
extensive educational program in cyber-security that encompasses
both undergraduate and graduate courses across multiple
departments. This brochure provides a quick overview of the
research activities of our key faculty members working in cyber
security research.
Nael Abu-GhazalehAssociate Professor, Computer
[email protected] Nael Abu-Ghazaleh’s research
interests are in secure architectures, computer network, and mobile
computing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the
University of Cincinnati in 1997. His research has been funded by
NSF, AFRL, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Qatar National
Research Fund. He is currently working on architectural support for
security in many-core processors. He received the SUNY Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006.
Yu ChenAssistant Professor, Electrical and Computer
[email protected] Yu Chen’s interests are in cyber
security, network infrastructure, cyber-physical systems and
computer architectures. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2006. He
has published more than 60 research papers. His recent projects
include the "Detection of Covertly Embedded Hardware in Digital
Systems" and "Android Octopi: Unclonable User-Centric Monitoring
and Access Control in Android Smartphone Cloud to Mitigate Blackhat
Search Engine Optimization and Social Network Attacks.”
Scott CraverAssociate Professor, Electrical and Computer
[email protected] Scott Craver’s research interests
are in information security, cryptology, steganography,
watermarking and DRM systems, and secure engineering, He received
his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in
2004. Recent projects include “Towards a General Theory of
Counterdeception” and “A Supraliminal Channel in a Wireless Phone
Application.” He is the recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator
Award and Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE).
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Jessica FridrichProfessor, Electrical and Computer
[email protected] Jessica Fridrich’s research
interests are in steganography, steganalysis, digital watermarking,
and digital image forensics. She received her PhD in Systems
Science from Binghamton University in 1995 and MS in Applied
Mathematics from Czech Technical University in Prague in 1987. Dr.
Fridrich’s work has been supported by the US Air Force and AFOSR.
She received 20 research grants totaling over $9 million for
projects on data embedding and steganalysis that led to more than
130 papers and 7 US patents. Recent projects include “Rich Cover
Models for Steganalysis of Digital Media” and “Digital Image
Forensics Using Systematic Artifacts of Imaging Sensors.”
Kanad GhoseProfessor and Chair, Computer
[email protected] Kanad Ghose’s research interests are in
Computer Systems and Architecture, Energy-Aware Systems, Systems
Security, Architectural Support for Trusted Computing, and Secure
Storage Systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Iowa
State University in 1988. He is the author of over 130 publications
and 5 US Patents, two of which have been licensed. His research has
been funded by NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, NYSTAR, NYSERDA, IBM, Intel, BAE
Systems and Sun Microsystems. Recent projects include
“Authentication of Remote Executions” and “Systems Level Approaches
for DoS mitigation.” He is the recipient of two SUNY Chancellor’s
awards, one for technical inventions and another for Excellence in
Research and Scholarship.
Kartik Gopalan, Associate Professor, Computer
[email protected] Kartik Gopalan’s research interests
are in experimental computer systems, specifically resource
virtualization and security in operating systems and computer
networks. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony
Brook University in 2003 and M.S. in Computer Science from Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras in 1996. His recent projects
address security and privacy issues in virtualization and cloud
computing. His work has been supported by NSF and AFRL STTR. He is
a recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award and holds 3
US patents.
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Kyoung-Don Kang Associate Professor, Computer
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Kyoung-Don Kang’s interests include security and privacy in
wireless ad hoc networks, cyber physical systems, stream data
management, and big data management. He received Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the University of Virginia in 2003. Prior to that, he
developed real-time software and firmware for embedded avionics at
the Agency for Defense Development in South Korea. His research is
supported by NSF and AFOSR.
Dmitry PonomarevAssociate Professor, Computer
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Dmitry Ponomarev’s research interests are in systems and
hardware security, specifically new attacks and defense
opportunities in multicore processors. He received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Binghamton University in 2003.His research
has been funded by NSF, AFRL, Intel and Qatar National Research
Fund. He has published over 60 papers. His recent projects include
"Architectural Support for Security in the Many-core Age: Threats
and Opportunities" and “Designing Secure Systems in the Presence of
Insecure Hypervisor.”
Victor Skormin,Distinguished Service Professor, Electrical and
Computer [email protected] VIctor Skormin works in
computer network and information security, intrusion detection,
control theory, and mathematical modeling. He received Ph.D. in
Process Control at Institute of Steel and Alloys. He has received
over $9M of research funding from industry, NSF, and AFOSR. His
recent projects include “Semantic Approach to Behavior-Based IDS
and Its Applications” and “Detection of Self-Replication in
Malicious Code.” He received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for
Excellence in Research in 2004.
Douglas SummervilleAssociate Professor, Electrical and Computer
[email protected] Douglas Summerville’s research
interests are network security, hardware security, tamper
detection, and intrusion detection. His research has been supported
by DURIP and AFOSR. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering
from Binghamton University in 1997. He is currently working on
detecting covertly embedded hardware in digital systems. He has
received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in
2012.
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Ping YangAssistant Professor, Computer
[email protected] Ping Yang’s research interests are in
information and systems security, privacy, access control policy
analysis, and formal methods. She received her Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Stony Brook University in 2006. Her recent projects
include “Security Analysis of Access Control Policies” and
“Security in Virtualized Cloud Computing Environments.” Her
research has been supported by NSF and AFRL STTR. Her work also
received the Most Practical Paper Award in PADL 2005 and best paper
candidate nomination in ICCCN 2009.
Ali Alper YaylaAssistant Professor, School of
[email protected] Ali Alper Yayla’s research focuses
on the organizational challenges and consequences of information
security. His current interests include the effect of information
security on the competitiveness of organizations, the role of
information security policies in organizations, and challenges of
implementing well-established security policies.He received his
Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Florida Atlantic
University in 2008. His work includes “The Impact of Information
Security Events on the Stock Value of Firms” and “Enforcing
Information Security Policies through Cultural Boundaries.”
Lijun YinAssociate Professor, Computer
[email protected] Lijun Yin is conducting research on
biometrics, face and gesture modeling and recognition. His research
has been supported by NSF, AFRL, and NYSTAR. He has published over
90 papers in related areas, and has released two 3D face expression
databases to the research community. His recent work focuses on
developing a 3D spontaneous expression copus for emotion analysis
with applications to counter-terrorism. He received his Ph.D. from
University of Alberta in 2000 and M.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University in 1992.