RIT faculty play large role in NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace research

Nine RIT faculty members attended the 2024 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators’ Meeting Sept. 4-5, in Pittsburgh.

The National Science Foundation SaTC program supports innovative research that will improve resilience of individual hosts, networked systems, hardware, software, applications and critical infrastructure from malicious cyber-attacks while preserving privacy and promoting effective and safe usability.

Ivan De Oliveira Nunes, assistant professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, was a featured panelist for “Key Takeaways from Creating a Proposal and Managing a Real-time Embedded System Security CRII Project.” Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of the Department of Cybersecurity, ran a breakout session on “Preventing Disinformation and Deepfakes.”

RIT faculty also presented eight posters at the meeting.

• Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, presented “CAREER: Towards Reliable and Quantum-resistant Connected Vehicle Security.”
• Yidan Hu, assistant professor in the Department of Cybersecurity, presented “Local Differential Privacy under Correlation.”
• Weijie Zhao, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, presented “Towards Secure and Trustworthy Tree Models.”
• Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, presented “Mechanized Cryptographic Reasoning in Separation Logic.”
• Daqing Hou, chair of the Department of Software Engineering, presented “Integrating Cybersecurity in Computing Curricula: A Software PBL-Driven Approach with Focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM).”
• Michael Zuzak, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, presented “Design Space Modeling for Logic Obfuscation to Enable System-Wide Security during IC Manufacture and Test” and “EAGER: Towards Crowd-Sourced Artifact Curation for Cyberattacks through a Learner-Centered AI Co-Pilot.”
• Matthew Wright, endowed professor and chair of the Department of Cybersecurity, presented “DeFake: Deploying a Tool for Robust Deepfake Detection.”

The NSF SaTC Principal Investigators’ Meeting is a biennial forum of the SaTC research community with leading experts from academia, industry, and Federal agencies, who will come together to discuss game changing challenges resulting from the global adoption of cyberspace.

The RIT group was also joined by former director of research at the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute Shanchieh Jay Yang, who was recently named the inaugural David and Cathleen Reisenauer Family Director of the Institute for Informatics and Applied Technology at Gonzaga University.

RIT offers a bachelor’s and master’s degree in cybersecurity and a Ph.D. in computing and information sciences, among other computing degrees in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences.