Center News

• 2020: Prof. Peng Liu and his collaborators at University of Georgia and Georgia Tech have received a new NSF SaTC Award; the total amount is $1,200,000. This project is focused on security of industry IoT and manufacturing systems. Congrats!
• 2020: A paper co-authored by Prof. Peng Liu has received the 10 Year Test-of-Time Award from IEEE/IFIP DSN, a premier conference on dependable computing and fault tolerance. Congrats!
• 2020: A team with PIs from 4 universities (GMU, PSU, Dartmouth, Michigan) has received $500K add-on grant from U.S. Army Research Office. Congrats!
• 2018: Center PhD student Jun Xu recently was named a recipient of the 2018 Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal. Congrats!
• 2018: Center Director Peng Liu is awarded IST’s first Professorship in Cybersecurity. Congrats!
• 2018: IST class helps Penn State place fourth in NSA Codebreaker Challenge. Congrats!
• 2018: Prof. Dinghao Wu receives $3.6 million grant to support cybersecurity retrofitting. Congrats!
• 2017: Prof. Xinyu Xing has won a new grant from NSF on memory corruption driven post-mortem program analysis. Congrats!
• 2017: Dr. Bo Chen, a post-doc alumni of our lab, joined the CS Department at Michigan Tech University as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2017. Congrats!
• 2017: Lannan Luo, who defended her PhD thesis in summer 2017, joined the CSE Department at University of South Carolina as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2017. Congrats!
• 2017: Center Researchers received Best Paper Award at ACSAC 2017. Congrats!
• 2016: Center researchers received Best Paper Runner-Up Award at IEEE CNS 2016. Congrats!
• 2016: Heqing Huang has joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member.
• 2016: Chuangang Ren has joined Google Android Security Teams. Congrats!
• 2016: Xiaoyang Sun has joined California State University as a tenure-track assistant professor. Congrats!
• 2016: Chen Zhong has joined Indiana University at Kokomo as a tenure-track assistant professor Congrats!
• 2016: Mingyi Zhao has joined Snapchat. Congrats!
• 2015: Peng Liu received Penn State College of IST Senior Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
• 2015: Minghui Zhu (EE) and Peng Liu received $500K NSF grant on CPS security.
• 2015: Anna Cinzia Squicciarini has received the NSF CAREER Award. Congrats!
• 2015: Anna Cinzia Squicciarini received Penn State College of IST Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
• 2014: Re-designated by DHS and NSA as "National Center of Academic Excellence in IA/CD Education" (CAE-Education) for 2014-2021.
• 2014: Dinghao Wu received Penn State College of IST Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
• 2014: Peng Liu received NSF grant on privacy-preserving cloud computing.
• 2013: Jens Grossklags received the endowed Haile Family Early Career Professorship in Penn State College of IST.
• 2013: Peng Liu received a Dept. of Defense MURI Award on Adaptive Cyber Defense, together with George Mason University (prime), Univ. of Michigan, and Dartmouth College.
• Center Alumni News: Dr. Fengjun Li, who defended her thesis in Dec. 2010, has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at University of Kansas (EECS dept.)


• Grant: Professor Peng Liu has received a DARPA grant on insider mission identification, together with Boeing and RIT.


• Grant: Professor Peng Liu has been awarded a grant together with IBM T. J. Watson and IBM-UK. This project, sponsored by USA-UK Army, is titled “Practical Security Aware Distributed Data Querying in Coalition Scenarios.”


• December 2010 Press Release: Professor Heng Xu was quoted in a The Wall Street Journal online article, and was interviewed for smartphone privacy issues at the Kathleen Dunn show that airs on Wisconsin Public Radio, the second largest public radio network in the country broadcasting into five states.


• November 2010 Press Release: Professor Peng Liu gave a talk titled "Security and Privacy Cannot be Taken for Granted by the Cloud Computing Industry" at the Modern Engineering & Technology Seminar (METS) in Taipei, Taiwan on Nov 8. A main goal of this seminar is to let the Taiwan Government get advice from experts in the US on critical economic development initiatives, such as renovation of modern municipalities, green energy, cloud computing, and sustainable health care. In the area of Cloud Computing, three experts in the US are invited and Professor Liu is the only one from academia. During the experts' visit to the President Office on Nov. 10, the summary report was handed to President Ma Ying-jeou. Photo with President Ma Ying-jeou | Local press release


• September 2010 Grant: Professor Heng Xu as the PI, with Prof. John M. Carroll, Prof. Mary Beth Rosson and Prof. Daniel Perkins, won a NSF research award on "MySpace Generation's Online Safety: Adolescent Attitude and Behavior, Parental Mediation, and Educational Intervention".


• August 2010 Grant: Professor Heng Xu as the Co-PI, with Prof. Madhu Reddy as the PI, won a NSF research award on "Collaborative Privacy Practices: Exploring Privacy in Information Intensive Environments"


• July 2010 Best Educational Plan: Professors Will McGill and Anna Squicciarini won the 2010 DHS Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge for having the Best Educational Plan. Details see: http://www.professormcgill.com/2010/07/we-won-dhs-cybersecurity-awareness.html


• May 2010 Grant: Professor Xu has received the NSF CAREER Award titled "CAREER: Examining Users' Collective Privacy Management for Online Social Networks" (2010-2015).


• April 2010 Endowed Professorship: Professor Xu was named as the recipient of PNC Technologies Career Development Professorship (2010-2013).


• Feb 2010 Scientific American News: A work on worms, done by Lunquan Li, Choi, Liu from IST Cyber Security Lab and Kesidis from EE/CSE was storied in Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=de-worming-software


• Feb 2010 Liu to talk on IDGA summit: A talk on secure cloud computing on Feb 22 in Washington D.C.


• Feb 2010 Press Release: http://live.psu.edu/story/44246/nw3


• Jan 2010 ARO MURI Website Launched: See http://ist.psu.edu/s2/cybersa/


• Jan 2010 Lions Center Lunch Seminar Launched: See http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/wu/lions-lunch/


• Sept 2009 Grant: Professor Liu won a NSF NeTS Grant on "Secure and Resilient Channel Allocation in Multi-Radio Wireless Networks" together with Prof. Qijun Gu at Texas State Univ. and Prof. Meng Yu at Western Illinois Univ.


• Sept 2009 Press Release: See http://live.psu.edu/story/41383


• Aug 2009 Grant: Professor Liu won a NSF Trustworthy-Computing Medium-Size Grant on "self-protecting data centers" together with Prof. Sushil Jajodia at GMU and Prof. Meng Yu at Western Illinois University.


• July 2009 Press Release: See http://live.psu.edu/story/40372/nw70


• July 2009 Grant: A team with Professor Liu as the PI won a MURI award on topic "Cyber Situational Awareness."


• April 2009 Grant: Professor Liu, as a Co-PI, is awarded a major grant from DTRA. The PI is Prof. Frank Ritter in College of IST.


• April 2009: Penn State is to be re-designated, by DHS and the National Security Agency, as a "National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education" (CAE-Education) for academic years 2009-2014. The PSU’s re-designation application is led by Professor Liu. Prof. Squicciarini and Prof. Chu are co-leaders of this application.


• Jan 2009: Professor Liu is to serve as the program co-chair of AsiaCCS 2010 (http://www.dacas.cn/asiaccs2010/), which will be held in Beijing, China.


• Dec 2008: Professor Liu has given a Keynote Speech on Inscrypt 2008, titled "Privacy Preserving Information Brokering".


• Oct 2008: Professor Liu is to serve as the general chair of Securecomm 2009.


• Sept 2008: Professor Squicciarini won a NSF Cyber-Trust Medium-Size Grant "Securing Dynamic Online Social Networks" in collaboration with UT San Antonio and ASU.


• June 2008: Penn State is among the first universities in the nation to be designated, by the National Security Agency (NSA), as a "National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research" (CAE-Research) for academic years 2008-2013. Congratulations to the Cyber Security Lab members and all the security researchers at Penn State for their great contributions to this designation.


• May 2008: Professor Liu has been selected as a Program Co-Chair of INSCRYPT 2008: 4th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, which will be held in December 14-17 in Beijing, China.


• March 2008: Professor Liu has been selected as a Program Co-Chair of SecureComm 2008: 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, which will be held in September 22-25 in Istanbul, Turkey.


• Feb 2008: Professor Liu won an AFRL SBIR Phase II grant, led by IAI, Inc.


• Sept 2007: Professor Xu won a NSF Cyber Trust grant on "Privacy Assurance in Location-Based Services," joint with Professor Rosson and Professor Carroll.


• Sept 2007: Professor Liu won a collaborative NSF Cyber Trust grant together with George Mason University and Western Illinois University. This project is on Dynamic Damage Assessment and Recovery for data processing systems.


• June 2007: Professor Liu won an ARO STTR Phase II grant, led by IAI, Inc.


• Spring 2007: Professor Zhu won a NSF CAREER award titled "CAREER: Combating Worm Propagation in Emergent Networks."


• Mar 2007: Professor Liu won a 5-year MURI grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, titled "Autonomic Recovery of Enterprise-wide Systems after Attack or Failure with Forward Correction", joint with GMU and Columbia University. This project will take a "health care" approach to do non-stop enterprise computing in the face of cyber attacks.


• Spring 2007: Professor Xu’s Ph.D. dissertation on Privacy Considerations in the Location Based Services was a runner up for the 2006 ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition.

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