In the first of what will be a collaborative series of workshops with other universities in the greater New York City area, NYU Tandon hosted NYC Cybersecurity Day on November 20. Organized by Tandon Ph.D. students Yunfei Ge and Ya-Ting Yang, the half-day workshop focused on various aspects of human elements in cybersecurity, including privacy,...
A team of researchers with ties to NYU Tandon—Drs. Ramesh Karri and Siddharth Garg, Ph.D. candidate Jason Blocklove, and a former post-doctoral researcher and research assistant professor Dr. Hammond Pearce—have developed a blueprint for creating microchips using AI. Over the past year or so the team was able to fabricate the world’s first microchip designed...
According to the National Science Foundation’s most recent Higher Education Research and Development, New York University now ranks number one in research spending among all the city’s academic institutions. With total research expenditures of $1.27 billion, NYU also ranks in the top 15 nationally, and 7th among private institutions, an increase of 8 places from...
On October 16, 2023, the Uptane community officially released a new and improved version of its website. This somewhat radical reinvention was introduced because, while users affirmed that the existing website contained a lot of useful information, they felt it was not particularly easy to navigate. Uptane, an open source secure software update system for...
Figure Caption: An illustration of two countermeasures to address material-level attacks on microfluidic biochips. On the left, an ML-based material authentication scheme where a simple punch test (F), coupled with a load cell, can authenticate whether the material’s composition is correct. On the right, a laser shining UV light (λ) on the dye-doped microvalve, provides...
Photo courtesy of Governor Hochul’s webpage at https://www.flickr.com/photos/govkathyhochul/sets/72177720310362995/ On August 9, Governor Kathy Hochul introduced New York State’s first plan to protect digital infrastructure in a special presentation at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn. According to an article by Jada Camille that appeared in Brooklyn Paper.com (https://www.brooklynpaper.com/hochul-statewide-cybersecurity-strategy/), the plan “outlined how the state...
In the spring of 2022, NYU announced receipt of a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant covers the work of three teams of researchers at NYU Tandon, including CCS affiliated faculty Dr. Ramesh Karri and Dr. Siddharth Garg. According to an NYU Research Brief released when the grant was announced (see...
Pictured (from l to r): Kylie Watson, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; Jason Harrell, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Edward Amoroso, TAG Cyber; and Joel Caminer, NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Anyone who signed up to hear keynote speaker Jason Harrell from The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) at the 13th AIG-Sponsored Cyber Security Lecture might...
Photo Caption: (Left to Right): Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer of Google Cloud; Shih-Fu Chang, Dean of Columbia Engineering; Greg Morrisett, Dean and Vice Provost Cornell Tech, Cornell University; Kurt Becker, Vice Dean of Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, NYU; Joshua Brumberg, Dean for the Sciences at The CUNY Graduate Center. Photo courtesy of Google...
Dr. Nasir Memon, Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Computer Science at NYU Tandon, and department head of NYU Tandon Online, is taking on a new challenge this fall. On June 9, 2023, NYU announced that he would be assuming the post of Interim Dean of Computer Science, Data Science, and...