News & Events
January 2024
Computer Science Assistant Professor Zeyu Ding received a $335,584 grant "Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Differentially Private SQL with flexible privacy modeling, machine-checked system design, and accuracy optimization" from the National Science Foundation, which will start in May 2024. Congratulations!
December 2023
Computer Science Professor Ping Yang participated in a Consumer Affair panel discussing the top 10 scams of 2023 and top scams for 2024.
October 2023
Computer Science Associate Professor Guanhua Yan talked to WBNG about social media scams.
October is the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Computer Science Professor Ping Yang provided online safety tips and talked to WICZ about cybersecurity awareness.
September 2023
Computer Science Associate Professor Jeremy Blackburn received a $674,999 National Science Foundation grant "Collaborative Research: SaTC: TTP: Medium: iDRAMA.cloud: A Platform for Measuring and Understanding Information Manipulation". Congratulations!
Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Professor Jessica Fridrich received a $880,352 grant "SaTC: CORE: Medium: Analytic versus Data Driven Models in Steganography: Empowering Each Other" from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations!
Computer Science Associate Professor Guanhua Yan received a $300K grant "Education DCL: EAGER: Building a Capture-The-Flag Platform for 5G Network Security" from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations!
August 2023
Professors Ping Yang (Computer Science), Guanhua Yan (Computer Science), and Amber Simpson (Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership) organized an 8-day GenCyber Summer Teacher Program on July 31-Aug.10. 23 teachers from 18 schools participated in the program. Here are some news reports: WBNG, WICZ, and WIVT.
January 2023
We are accepting Fall 2023 scholarship applications for NSF Scholarship for Service. Graduate students and stu
dents in the accelerated/4+1 degree program who are U.S. citizens are eligible to apply.
July 2022
Professors Ping Yang (Computer Science), Guanhua Yan (Computer Science), and Amber Simpson (Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership) received a $136K GenCyber grant from the National Security Agency. Congratulations!
June 2022
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Assistant Professor Jian Li received a $1 million NSF grant with a team of collaborators from New York University. Congratulations!
March 2022
We are accepting Fall 2022 scholarship applications for NSF Scholarship for Service. Graduate students and students in the accelerated/4+1 degree program who are U.S. citizens are eligible to apply. Applicants who are not currently enrolled at Binghamton University should also meet the application deadlines of Binghamton University and submit additional materials required for the university-level admission process.
The Computer Science Department will start a new cybersecurity track (MSCS) in Fall 2022.
The Computer Science Department will start a 4+1 accelerated/4+1 (BS+MS) degree program in Fall 2022.
January 2022
Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering Professors Ping Yang (PI), Dmitry Ponomarev (Co-PI), Yu Chen (Co-PI), Kartik Gopalan (Co-PI), Aravind Prakash(Co-PI), Jessica Fridrich (Senior personnel), Guanhua Yan (Senior personnel), and Lijun Yin (Senior personnel) received a $3.5 million grant from NSF Scholarship for Service program. Here is the BingUNews report. Congratulations!
November 2021
Computer Science Associate Professors Guanhua Yan and Ping Yang received a $100K grant "Real-Time Detection of Advanced Malware Attacks with Ensembles of Graph Neural Networks" from SUNY-IBM AI Alliance. Congratulations!
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Syracuse University, University at Baffalo, and Binghamton University organized virtual Great Lakes Security day (GLSD) on Nov. 12. GLCD aims to bring together cybersecurity researchers and students in Western and Upstate New York to discuss their latest cybersecurity ideas and findings.
A new course "CS480A/580A Hardware and Systems Security" Will be offered by Prof. Hoda Naghibijoubari in Spring 2022.
The cybersecurity track for MS students in Computer Science has been approved by the New York State!
October 2021
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yu Chen received a $100K NSF grant “EAGER: SaTC: CORE: Small: Decentralized Data Assurance by Fair Proof of Work Consensus Federated Ledgers”. Congratulations Yu!
August 2021
Computer Science Assistant Professor Hoda Naghibijouybari received a $534,595 NSF grant to investigate microarchitectural side-channel attacks and defenses in integrated CPU-GPU systems. Congratulations, Hoda!
May 2021
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yu Chen and Professor Xiaohua Li received $297,082 grant “ERSES5G: Integrated 5G Imaging and Communication Surveillance as an Edge Service Secured by a Lightweight Environmental Fingerprint Consensus Blockchain" from AFOSR. Congratulations Yu!
April 2021
Computer Science Assistant Professor Aravind Prakash received $499,853 NSF CAREER Award for the project "CAREER: Binary-Level Security via ABI_Centric Semantic Inference". Congratulations Aravind!
Computer Science Assistant Professor Jeremy Blackburn received $517,484 NSF CAREER Award for the project "CAREER: Towards a Data-driven Understanding of Online Sentiment". Congratulations Jeremy!
Computer Science Assistant Professor Jeremy Blackburn received a $220K National Science Foundation Award to develop automated techniques for detecting "troll" accounts used to manipulate social media. Congratulations!
March 2021
Distinguished Professor Jessica Fridrich (ECE) discusses her work in digital forensics in BBC News.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yu Chen Received $77K grant “Drones, Phones, and Cones: The IoT Sensing Grid”. from from Technergetics, LLC. Congratulations!
February 2021
Computer Science Professors Dmitry Ponomarev and Yu David Liu received $694,582 grant from National Science Foundation to protect systems from side-channel attacks. Congratulations Dmitry and David!
Professor Sumantra Sarkar from School of Management shared his thought on identity theft with a local news station.
A new course "CS527X Mobile Systems Security" offered by Professor Guanhua Yan is added to the Advanced Certificate in Cybersecurity program.
January 2021
A new study by Computer Science Assistant Professor Jeremy Blackburn, his Ph.D. student Utkucan Balci, and researchers at Boston University shows most zoombombing is an "inside job". The paper "A First look at Zoombombing" was accepted by the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021, a top-tier security conference. Congratulations!
November 2020
Associate Professor Sumantra Sarkar (School of Management) is appointed as an associate director of the center. Congratulations!
Computer Science PhD candidate Kaiming Fang defended his dissertation "Emulation-based Security Assessment of 4G/LTE Mobile Communication Systems", under the guidance of Associate Professor Guanhua Yan. Congratulations!
Distinguished Professor Jessica Fridrich (ECE) received a $768,964 NSF grant "SaTC: CORE: Medium: Steganography Based on Sensor Capture Models: Replacing Heuristics with Model-Based Designs". Congratulations!
New sigarch blog post "Highlights of 2020 Security Conferences for Computer Architects – Part II" by Computer Science Professor Dmitry Ponomarev.
Computer Science PhD student Rukayat defended her PhD dissertation "Robust and Comprehensive Class Hierarchy Inference Engine for Optimized COTs C++ Binaries". She will be joining Google in the Spring. Congratulations to Rukayat and her advisor Aravind Prakash!
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Syracuse University, University at Buffalo, and Binghamton University organized virtual Great Lakes Security day (GLSD) on Nov. 6. GLCD aims to bring together cybersecurity researchers and students in Western and Upstate New York to discuss their latest cybersecurity ideas and findings.
September 2020
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yu Chen received a $257,049 National Science Foundation Grant "EAGER: SaTC: SAVED: Secure Audio and Video Data from Deepfake Attacks Leveraging Environmental Fingerprints". Congratulations Yu!
A recent work on DeepFake detection by Computer Science Professor Lijun Yin, his Ph.D. student Umur Ciftci, and their external collaborator at intel has been co-featured in VentureBeat(VB).
School of Management Associate Professor Sumantra Sarkar's paper "The Influence of Professional Subculture on Information Security Policy Violations: A Field Study in a Healthcare Context" is accepted in Information Systems Research, which is one of the top 2 journals in Information Systems field. Congratulations!
August 2020
Lijun Yin received the CIAC seed grant on "Deep Fake Detection for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensic". Congratulations!
July 2020
Binghamton University's cybersecurity program was ranked #24 by cyberdegreesedu.org.
Computer Science PhD student Yunus Kucuk successfully defended his dissertation work on "Robust Classification of Portable Executable Malware". Yunus worked under the supervision of Guanhua Yan. Congratulations, Yunus!
June 2020
Binghamton University has been designated by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R) in 2020-2025. The application effort was led by CIAC.
The paper "reversing virtual inheritance in C++ binaries" co-authored by Computer Science PhD student Rukayat Erinfolami and her advisor Aravind Prakash was accepted to ACM CCS, a top-tier computer security conference. Congratulations!
Jian Li (ECE) and Ping Yang (CS) received a datascience seed grant on learning-aided distributed anomaly detection in Internet-of-Things. Congratulations!
March 2020
Computer Science Assistant Professor Guanhua Yan received the National Science Foundation Early CAREER Development Award ($498,879) to develop three-layered, proactive defenses for the next-generation mobile communication infrastructures. Congratulations!
Computer Science PhD student Daniel Townley successfully defended his dissertation work on hardware-software co-design for security. Daniel worked under the supervision of Dmitry Ponomarev. Congratulations, Daniel!
Computer Science PhD student Anh Quach defended her PhD dissertation on debloating binaries. Anh is supervised by Assistant Professor Aravind Prakash. Congratulations Anh!
February 2020
CIAC seminar: Matthew Cole (PhD student of Aravind Prakash) will present "Simplex: Repurposing Intel Memory Protection Extensions" on Feburary 28th at noon in room T1 of the Engineering Building.