Welcome to LIONS Center

Recent Highlights of the Center

• Designated by NSA as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education in 2003 and 2006.
• Designated by NSA and DHS as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research*, 2008-2013. (* with CSE)
• Anna Squicciarini won a NSF Cyber-Trust Medium-Size Grant "Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks" in collaboration with UT San Antonio and ASU, 2008.
• Peng Liu won a DoD (AFOSR) MURI grant, "MURI: Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-Wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward Correction," in collaboration with GMU and Columbia, 2007.
• Sencun Zhu was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2007.
• Heng Xu was a runner-up for the 2006 ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.

Vision

The LIONS Center will be synonymous with seminal works in interdisciplinary cyber-security research.

Mission

• Detect and remove threats of information misuse to the human society: mitigate risk, reduce uncertainty, and enhance predictability and trust.
• Produce leading scholars in interdisciplinary cyber-security research.
• Become a national leader in information assurance education.

Goal

• The LIONS center will be the best at performing inter-disciplinary research in cyber- security and privacy.
• The LIONS center will play a leading role in helping Penn State pursue security and risk R&D opportunities that revolve around DHS, NSA, and DoD.

Center at a Glance

• Core Faculty: 7
• Collaborating Faculty: 20
• Research Associates: 2
• Ph.D. students: 19
• Publications since 2002: 200+
• Annual Publications: 30-40
• Active Grants: $3,000,000+ (core faculty credit)

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Last modified: 2009-05-06 20:37:48 EDT