PRISMS

Privacy, Internetworking, Security, and Mobile Systems Laboratory

Recent news:

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.
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