Pilawa wins Air Force Young Investigator Award to build inflight supercomputers
04/21/2015 - 9:08am The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded Pilawa $360,000 over three years as a part of its Young Investigator Program (YIP).
Berthier receives award for work on detecting security breaches in utility communications
04/08/2015 - 5:26am ITI researcher Robin Berthier recently received a Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications for his collaborative work on a project that aims to help utilities to monitor encrypted network communications.
Naveed Receives Google PhD Fellowship in Security
03/19/2015 - 5:55am CS graduate student Muhammad Naveed was one of just 15 recipients of a 2015 North American Google PhD Fellowship. Created in 2009, these fellowships recognize outstanding graduate students who are doing exceptional work in a number of computing disciplines. Naveed is a fourth-year PhD student working in the area of security.
U. of I., Carle moving forward with the first engineering-based college of medicine
03/12/2015 - 9:49am CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Partners in a first-of-its-kind medical college on the University of Illinois's Urbana-Champaign campus are advancing to the next phase of development, having completed a key administrative step today.
Bailey wins ACM Best Paper Award for Heartbleed research
02/26/2015 - 10:38am "The Matter of Heartbleed," co-written by Associate Professor Michael Bailey, won the best paper award at the ACM's Internet Measurement Conference.
Research shows way to secure cyber physical systems via anomaly detection
02/19/2015 - 6:20am Recent successful cybersecurity attacks, such as the 2010 Stuxnet attack on uranium centrifuges central to Iran's nuclear program, have made it impossible to ignore the lack of effective security of cyber physical systems today.
Nahrstedt named director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory
02/16/2015 - 6:05am Nahrstedt, who is the first computer science faculty member to lead the lab and an ITI researcher, has served as acting director since 2013.
Dominguez-Garcia wins a 2014 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
02/16/2015 - 4:18am ITI researcher Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia won a 2014 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award, an honor from Provost Ilesanmi Adesida. The award recognizes recently promoted faculty members who have shown special promise in their fields.
Adve Named a Fellow of ACM
02/05/2015 - 5:50am ITI Researcher and CS Professor Vikram Adve has been named a 2014 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In his citation he was recognized for developing the LLVM compiler and for contributions to parallel computing and software security. He is one of 49 ACM members being recognized this year for their contributions to computing.
Research looks to verify power networks at the device level
01/29/2015 - 6:03am Securing our power grids from malicious attacks is critical to ensuring a safe power grid, and many researchers are working on solving this problem by focusing on the entire system. However, ITI research scientist Katherine Davis is tackling the problem in a new and innovative way in her new $391,014, three-year NSF grant to study verification of cyber-physical critical infrastructures at the device level.
ITI in the News: A cutting-edge power grid cyber security testbed at the Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois
12/23/2014 - 6:54am The RTDS News featured an article by ITI's Tim Yardley on the RTDS Simulator used for cutting edge smart grid research at the Information Trust Institute.
Yoon receives Padovani Scholarship
12/11/2014 - 10:53am CS graduate student Man-Ki Yoon received the Roberto Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm. The Roberto Padovani Scholarship program was created in 2008 to recognize Qualcomm Research interns who demonstrate extraordinary technical talent during their summer internships.
Illinois students make strong showing in cyber security competitions
12/10/2014 - 9:51am Two teams with CS @ ILLINOIS members received recognition at the 11th annual New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW).
Roth and Sanders two of six Illinois faculty elected AAAS Fellows
12/01/2014 - 5:49am ITI faculty members Dan Roth and William H. Sanders are two of six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected 2014 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The other recipients were Placid M. Ferreira (Mechanical Science and Engineering), Brendan A. Harley (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Joseph W. Lyding (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Phillip A. Newmark (Cell and Developmental Biology).
Research combines simulations and static analysis to verify cyberphysical systems
11/13/2014 - 9:42am CSL Professor Sayan Mitra (ECE) and CS Professor Mahesh Viswanathan were recently awarded $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to support a grant entitled From Simulations to Proofs for Cyberphysical Systems that will seek additional ways to verify such systems in conjunction with simulations.
New research looks at how information on Internet can be manipulated
11/04/2014 - 9:19am With a tight gubernatorial race in Illinois, voters are being bombarded today with TV ads, yard signs and robo calls. But what if candidates could use their campaign dollars to subtlety influence your vote on social media? It might as simple as paying to promote the status of a friend who just voted or downplaying negative status posts on Facebook.
In the News: Cybersecurity - It's about way more than countering hackers
11/03/2014 - 4:40am It's tense in the situation room. A cyber attack on the electrical grid in New York City has plunged Manhattan into darkness on a day that happens to be the coldest in the year. Concurrently, the cellular phone network has been attacked, silencing smartphones and sowing confusion and panic. A foreign power has claimed responsibility for the attacks and says more are coming. Your job is to look at geopolitical factors, intelligence feeds, military movements and clues in cyberspace to predict what may be happening next. Your goal is to make a recommendation to the President.
New paradigm enables more secure, reliable control networks for power grid
10/22/2014 - 9:20am When an energy company sustains a cyber attack, control system operators must quickly identify, isolate and reroute around the affected network areas in order to maintain critical energy delivery functions. A global view of all communication flows would make that task much easier, but unfortunately, such an overview map isn't available to the energy sector at this time.
Yutian Lei wins prize for paper at IEEE COMPEL workshop
10/21/2014 - 9:57am Graduate student Yutian Lei won the award for best paper out of 128 peer-reviewed contenders at the 2014 IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, or COMPEL, which took place at the University of Cantabria in Spain. Lei's publication, co-written with former graduate student Ryan May (now at Texas Instruments) and ITI researcher and Assistant Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, explored their research into switched-capacitor power converters.