Session 4: Internet of Things


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Internet of Things in National Security


May 23, 2018 at 11:00



Chair: John Saunders

Principal Cyber Security Engineer      
MITRE Corporation





Title: “En Route to Smart Cities”


Dr. Shubham Jain


Shubham Jain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University. Her research interests lie in mobile computing, cyber-physical systems, and data analytics in smart environments. She received her PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rutgers University in 2017. Her research in pedestrian safety received the Large Organization Recognition Award at AT&T Connected Intersections challenge, and has featured in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal. She also received the Best Presentation Award at PhD Forum, held with MobiSys 2015. She has interned at Microsoft Research, Redmond and General Motors Research. She has published in venues such as ACM MobiSys, ACM/IEEE IPSN, IEEE PerCom etc.



Title: “Cybersecurity of the IoT”


Dr. Angelos Stavrou


Angelos Stavrou is a founder of Kryptowire and a Professor at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE) at GMU. Stavrou has served as principal investigator on research awards from NSF, DARPA, IARPA, DHS, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, he is an active member of NIST’s Mobile Security team and has written more than 90 peer-reviewed conference and journal articles. Stavrou received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, M.Phil. and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Computer Science all from Columbia University. He also holds an M.Sc. in theoretical Computer Science from University of Athens, and a B.Sc. in Physics with distinction from University of Patras, Greece. Stavrou is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability and IET Journal on Information Security. His current research interests include security and reliability for distributed systems, security principles for virtualization, and anonymity with a focus on building and deploying large-scale systems. Stavrou received the GMU Department of Computer Science Outstanding Research Award in 2010 and 2016 and was awarded with the 2012 George Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award, a university-wide award. In 2013, he received the IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year award. He is a NIST guest researcher, a member of the ACM and USENIX, and a senior IEEE member.