PRISMS

Recent news:

• 8/18/2009: Kevin Fu was named 2009 Innovator of the Year by Technology Review.
• 8/16/2009: Andres Molina, Negin Salajegheh and Kevin Fu had a paper accepted to SPIMACS 2009.
• 8/14/2009: Kevin Fu's Computational RFID work was mentioned in New Scientist.
• 7/12/2009: Shane Clark and Kevin Fu had a paper accepted to HotPower 2009.
• 7/2009: Negin Salajegheh spoke about CCCP at Microsoft Research and Intel Research Seattle.
• 6/6/2009: Nilanjan Banerjee graduated with a Ph.D. and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His new webpage is here.
• 6/1/2009: Thijs de Vries joins PRISMS as technical staff. Welcome Thijs!
• 4/28/2009: Marc Liberatore and Brian Levine had a paper accepted to DFRWS 2009.
• 4/13/2009: Negin Salajegheh had a paper accepted to USENIX Security 2009.
• 4/10/2009: Ben Ransford received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• 3/13/2009: Preparations for the ACM NeFX 2009 Workshop are in full swing, co-led by Brian Levine and Gerome Miklau and partners at John Jay and UNH.
• 2/17/2009: Kevin Fu is a 2009 Sloan Research Fellow.
• 2/9/2009: The Spring 2009 Security Reading Group starts this Friday!
• 1/2009: Andres Molina celebrated his marriage to Elizabeth Markham.
• 1/2009: Kevin Fu and his wife are expecting a baby later this semester.
• 1/2009: Marc Liberatore has returned to UMass as a research scientist. He will have a publication in Financial Cryptography '09 next month.
• 12/2008: Kevin Fu and Ben Ransford traveled to San Diego to present a paper on Computational RFID at HotPower '08. Shane Clark and Negin Salajegheh were coauthors.
• 11/16/2008: Brian Levine welcomed his first child, Elena.
• 11/2008: Aruna Balasubramanian successfully defended her thesis proposal titled Architecting Protocols to Enable Mobile Applications in Diverse Wireless Networks.
• 11/2008: Kevin Fu and Ben Ransford were coauthors of a study showing that earphones can interfere with implanted cardiac devices.
• 10/15/2008: Ben Ransford and his wife Megan Sielken jubilantly added Linus to their health insurance policy.

Older news (pre-2009):

Brian Levine was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Justice focusing on forensics investigations of online contraband trafficking. The award is collaborative with Clay Shields of Georgetown University. It is a partnership with the MA State Police and The Dept. of Homeland Security ICE.
• Marc Liberatore has accepted a job as a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow offered to him by the CTW Consortium (Connecticut College, Trinity College, and Wesleyan University) and had papers this year in ToN, CoNext, and CCS.
• Patrick Stahlberg is graduating with an MS, got a pub in SIGMOD, two in CIDR, and will be working at Google.
• Hee-Jin Chae is graduating with an MS and will be working at Raytheon.
• Jim Cipar is graduating with an MS and won Best Paper at FAST. Jim received his BS at UMass and will be completing his PhD at CMU.
• George Bissias (and alum John Burgess) have a paper at MobiHoc, and George had an extended abstract accepted to Sigmetrics.
• Tom Heydt-Benjamin had his work on credit cards featured in the NYTs and published in Financial Crypto.
• Jim Partan had a paper at WUWNet, which was then selected for a special issue of MC2R.
• Jacob Sorber had his work published in MobiSys.
• Nilanjan Banerjee had his work published in MobiSys, Infocom, and Ubicomp, and he was cited by the department for passing his portfolio exam with distinction.
• Boris Margolin had his work published in Financial Crypto.
• Benessa Defend was awarded the Verizon Rising Star fellowship and had her work published in PerSec.
• Aruna Balasubramanian had her work accepted to Sigcomm, will be presenting a research poster at the Grace Hopper conference, and was cited by the department for passing her portfolio exam with distinction.