Month: February 2015

Last night was the UW CSE TGIF Chess Competition. Lab member Anna Kornfeld Simpson tied for the grand prize, out of 16 total competitors. It was quite an amazing, intense competition. Lab member Kiron Lebeck also swiftly annihilated one of his advisors, Yoshi Kohno, as can be seen on the right. Yoshi’s in check mate, but neither side lost any pieces in the battle. Immediately after his victory, lab member Tope Oluwafemi called Kiron to discuss research, as can also be seen in the photo.

UW CSE Security Lab co-director Yoshi Kohno has been awarded the Short-Dooley endowed professorship. See the full announcement here. Congratulations Yoshi!

Congratulations Temitope Oluwafemi! Tope passed his PhD General Exam today. Next step: His PhD Final Defense. Congrats Tope!

Get a sneak peek at this Sunday’s 60 Minutes episode in which UW CSE researchers remotely compromise a car driven by Leslie Stahl, part of a segment examining cybersecurity threats and the Internet of Things. (See a photo of the set-up at right.)

During the segment featured in the CBS preview, the head of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, Dan Kaufman, DARPA Program Manager Kathleen Fisher, and UW Ph.D. alum Karl Koscher demonstrate how hackers can control various functions of a motor vehicle. The demo is based on research conducted by a team from UW CSE (Alexei Czeskis, Yoshi Kohno, Karl Koscher and Franzi Roesner) and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego.

Get a sneak peek at the 60 Minutes episode in the CBS preview here – the preview is all UW CSE, all the time!

Read more about the automotive security collaboration between UW CSE and UCSD here.

Tune into your local CBS affiliate Sunday, February 8th at 7:00 pm to catch the full segment!