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ICS Welcomes Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth as a Distinguished Speaker June 7

May 29, 2019

The ICS Distinguished Lecture Series in Information Technology & Society is welcoming Nobel Laureate in Economics Alvin Roth, professor of statistics at Stanford University, to UCI’s Calit2 Auditorium on June 7, 2019. Roth will sign copies of his latest book during a lunch reception that takes place from 12-1:30 p.m., before delivering an afternoon talk on “Who Gets What? The New Economics of Matching and Market Design” from 1:30-2:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the ICS Distinguished Lecture Series website.

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Professor Harris Awarded NSF Grant to Detect Social Engineering Attacks

July 25, 2018

Ian Harris

Professor Ian Harris

Social engineering poses a critical threat to information security, with cyberattackers recognizing that people are often more vulnerable to manipulation than a hardened computer system. “Social engineering targets the weakest link in the system, the human actors,” explains Computer Science Professor Ian Harris, who is working to address this issue as Principal Investigator of a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The work, “Detecting Social Engineering Attacks Using Semantic Language Analysis,” falls under the NSF’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, and Harris was awarded nearly $500,000 to study this growing threat.

According to the grant abstract, the project will “confront the problem of social engineering by developing automated approaches to detect social engineering attacks in real time and alert the victim before harm can occur.” Leveraging question answering and natural language understanding techniques, the goal is to identify conversational statements with malicious intent. “The attacker must always perform one of two dialog actions, either asking a question whose answer is private, or issuing a command to perform a forbidden operation.”

This work will also result in a large corpus of non-phishing social engineering attacks in the form of audio recordings and written transcripts, which will be made publicly available to support both further research into the topic and the development of courses on social engineering attacks.

Read more about Harris’ research on this topic on DarkReading.com.

— Shani Murray

CMTC Video Interview: Aditi Majumder Discussing Computer Vision

May 2, 2018

Watch a Knowledge Center video from California Manufacturing Technology Consulting (CMTC) that features Professor Aditi Majumder discussing her work and its impacts on manufacturing.

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Goodrich Elected to Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters

April 26, 2018

Professor Michael GoodrichMichael Goodrich, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of computer science, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters. Goodrich is a leader in the field of algorithm design, where he is highly recognized for research in geometric computing, networking, geographic information systems, computer security and big data processing. [Read more…]

Tsudik Receives 2017 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award

November 2, 2017

Gene Tsudik receiving awardChancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Gene Tsudik was presented with the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Dallas on Nov. 1. Tsudik received the award for his leadership in security and privacy research. The Outstanding Contributions Award is given for significant contributions to the field of computer and communication security through fostering research and development activities, educating students and providing professional services such as the running of professional societies and conferences. Each award carries a $1,000 monetary award and a plaque.

Dutt Receives CS@ILLINOIS 2017 Distinguished Educator Award

November 2, 2017

Dutt receiving award

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professors Josep Torrellas, Tandy Warnow and Vikram Adve with UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Nikil Dutt (holding award).

Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science Nikil Dutt was honored with the CS @ ILLINOIS 2017 Distinguished Educator Award at an award banquet ceremony held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on Oct. 20, 2017. The CS @ ILLINOIS Distinguished Educator Award honors UIUC computer science alumni or faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to computer science education and research, and recognizes those who excel at motivating computer science students. Dutt’s award recognizes his contributions to embedded systems and architecture research, his mentoring of many successful Ph.D. advisees (who themselves have won many awards), as well as his teaching.

For more information, visit the award website.

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