Pictured above Professor Ozgur Sinanoglu of NYU Abu Dhabi welcomes attendees to the NYU sponsored workshop. The World Police Summit, hosted by the Dubai Police and held from May 13-15 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, brought together some 53,000 law enforcement professionals, policymakers, industry leaders, and innovators from more than 110 countries. Attendees heard...
Labs-on-chips is an exciting new medical technology that enables technicians to perform multiple laboratory tests on tiny fluid samples, such as blood droplets. Unfortunately, malicious parties are already finding ways to tamper with these devices and affect their functionality. In a study published last fall in Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from CCS and...
How good are AI systems really when it comes to answering questions about specific industry domains? And, can they be effective in identifying fraud or at sniffing out propaganda in online news? Two recent studies by CCS faculty are seeking answers to these and other practical questions about the efficacy of AI systems; in the...
NYU will soon be home to a new federally funded center dedicated to the protection of America’s electric power infrastructure. The new center will be one of several regional cybersecurity hubs established by the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) to promote and support innovative research, and to train...
Nektarios Tsoutsos, Assistant Professor and Associate Director, Center for Cybersecurity, Assurance, and Privacy at the University of Delaware, and Dan Guido, co-founder and CEO of Trail of Bits, are members of a unique club. Both are former CSAW competitors who have continued to remain engaged with the event in some way. As a Ph.D.student in...
Rosanna “Rosie” Bellini, the newest member of the Center for Cybersecurity faculty team, joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon in January 2025 as an Assistant Professor. She is motivated to make technologies safer for everyone, but especially for groups who might have originally been overlooked when digital systems were designed,...
On July 9, NYU officially named Dr. Damon McCoy, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and a researcher with the Center for Cybersecurity, as the Center’s new co-director. McCoy takes over the reins from Dr. Ramesh Karri, who is stepping down in order to assume the chairmanship of the Tandon Electrical and Computer Engineering Department....
Over the past year, Tandon faculty have taken major roles in a number of significant collaborative efforts with U.S. government agencies. One particularly important initiative, funded by the Department of Energy, is the Digital Twin for Security and Code Verification, or DISCOVER project, which seeks to protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. Led by Principal...
Rachel Greenstadt, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Center for Cybersecurity faculty member at NYU Tandon, is one of 6 new members on the Council of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). The NSF-funded initiative aims to enable, “the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges.” Greenstadt began...
Karthik Garimella, a Ph.D. student in the NYU Tandon Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently named a “Rising Star” by MLCommons, an AI consortium dedicated to “encouraging open collaboration and improving the accuracy, safety, speed and efficiency of AI technologies.” The “Rising Star” designation honors young researchers working at the intersection of machine...