Two former research assistant professors at Tandon, Dr. Hammond Pearce and Dr. Benjamin Tan were recently awarded major corporate recognition. Pearce, now a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been awarded funds by Google for his project exploring the discovery and repair of critical flaws in the design...
Professor Ramesh Karri, chair of NYU Tandon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), has been named to the IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes Karri’s broad impact on the field of hardware security. In announcing the award, Jim Plusquellic, a professor of Electrical and Computer...
Stalking has become a major issue in the U.S., with one 2024 study noting that some 13.5 million people are stalked each year and that about one in three women and one in six men will experience stalking at some point in their lifetime (See the report from the Domestic Violence Services Network, Inc.). Unfortunately,...
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....