Research
Recent Themes:
- System Survivability and Biological Analogy
- Security, Game Theory, and Microeconomics
- Privacy and Social Systems
- Identity and Trust Management
- Assured Information Sharing and Search
- Security and Risk of Extreme Event Systems
- Cyber-security Pandemic and Network Science
- Security and Privacy in Virtual World
- Self-Healing Systems and Enterprise Security
Publications and Patents:
- On average, the center publishes about 35-40 referred technical papers every year; many of them are published on the premier venues in the field.
- Since 2002, more than 200 referred technical papers have been published.
- In recent years, the core faculty has authored or edited more than 10 books and conference proceedings; most of them are published by prestigious publishers, including ACM, IEEE, and Springer.
- Since 2006, the core faculty has filed at least two provisional patent applications and two final patent applications.
Funding:
- The center’s research program has been well funded by some of the most prestigious and competitive funding agencies and programs.
- Currently, the core faculty is funded by more than $3,000,000 (core faculty credit only) active research grants & contracts.
- A list of selected grants is as follows.
| Funding Agency | Project Name | Duration | Total Amount* |
Center Involvement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFOSR MURI | MURI: Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward Correction (GMU, Columbia, Penn State) |
2007-2012 | $4,800,000 | Liu leads the PSU team |
| NSF Cyber Trust |
CT-M-Collaborative Research: Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks. (UT San Antonio, ASU, PSU) |
2008-2012 | $1,000,000 | Squicciarini is the PSU PI |
| NSF/DHS | NRT: Collaborative Research: Testing and Benchmarking Methodologies for Future Network Security Mechanisms (PSU, ICSI, UC Davis, Purdue, SRI, McAfee, Sparta) |
2003-2008 | Around $5,000,000 | Liu is a co-PI |
| NSF CAREER | CAREER: Combating Worm Propagation in Emergent Networks | 2007-2012 | $400,000 | Zhu is the sole PI |
| DOE CAREER | A Game Theoretic Approach for Cyber Attack Prediction | 2003-2005 | $183,143 | Liu is the sole PI |
| ARO | STTR: Practical Efficient Graphical Models for Cyber-Security Analysis in Enterprise Networks |
2007-2009 | $750,000 | Liu is a co-PI |
| NSF Cyber Trust |
CT-ER: Privacy Assurance in Location-Based Services: Integrating Economic Exchange and Social Justice Perspectives | 2007-2009 | $174,777 | Xu is the PI |
| NSF Cyber Trust |
Collaborative: TRANSPARENT DAMAGE QUARANTINE AND RECOVERY IN TRANSACTIONAL APPLICATIONS AND WEB SERVICES | 2007-2009 | $150,000 | Liu is the PSU PI |
| NSF Cyber Trust |
CT-ER: Security and Privacy Solutions for Data-Centric Sensor Networks | 2007-2009 | $200,000 | Zhu is the PI |
| AFRL | SBIR: Integrated Graphical Models for Efficient and Practical Network Attack Damage Assessment | 2008-2010 | $750,000 | Liu is a co-PI |
| NSF Cyber Trust |
CT-ISG: A Framework for Defending Against Node Compromises in Distributed Sensor Networks | 2005-09 | $450,000 | Zhu is the PI |
| ARO | Distributed Self-healing Mechanisms for Securing Sensor Networks | 2005-08 | $270,000 | Zhu is the PI; Liu is a co-PI |
| NSA/DHS | DOD Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) & DoD IA Capacity | 2004-2008 | Around $900,000 | Chu is the PI; Liu is a co-PI |
| NSF Cyber Trust |
QoIA-Aware Attack Resilient Database Systems | 2002-2007 | $140,000 | Liu is the sole PI |
| NSF | Capacity Building in Information Assurance at Penn State | 2004-2007 | $296,000 | Liu is the PI; Chu is a co-PI |
| DARPA | Engineering a Distributed Intrusion Tolerant Database System Using COTS Components | 2000-2002 | $180,000 | Liu is the sole PI |
| DARPA | Measuring Quality of Information Assurance | 2002-2003 | $100,000 | Liu is the sole PI |
* The total amount includes not only the credit assigned to the center’s core faculty, but also the credit assigned to their collaborators at PSU and other institutions.
Last modified: 2009-05-04 14:57:57 EDT