The National Science Foundation recently awarded Di Ma, assistant professor of computer and information science, $110,000 to improve security and privacy for radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems. Ma's research seeks to develop new context-aware security and privacy mechanisms by leveraging newly equipped sensing capabilities on the next generation of RFID tags. The goal is to provide improved protection against unauthorized reading and relay attacks without undermining the usability and efficiency offered by RFID systems. The project-which will span from system design and analysis to implementation and performance measurements-seeks to arrive at a better understanding of how parameters derived from the physical world can be used to solve security and privacy issues in cyber systems.

We have added the following courses to our Masters and PhD programs:

 

• CIS 559 - Principles of Social Network Science
• CIS 652 - Information Visualization and Animation
• CIS 657 - Wireless Sensor Networks
• CIS 676 - Software Architecture Design and Analysis
• CIS 678 - Advances in Software Engineering Research

 

These courses can be taken by both Masters students as well as PhD students.

Please go here to see more details about these courses.