Month: March 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Peter Ney for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation today. Peter is a research leader at the intersection of biology and computer security, as well also in the study of privacy and cell-site simulators. See, for example, his USENIX Security paper entitled “Computer Security, Privacy, and DNA Sequencing: Compromising Computers with Synthesized DNA, Privacy Leaks, and More“, as well as his PETS paper entitled “SeaGlass: A City-wide Cell-site Simulator Detection Network”. Peter will be staying at UW as a postdoc, working with both the UW Security and Privacy Research Lab and the Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL).

The Security Lab has a new home! At the end of January, we moved across the street into the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering. We’re excited for the new space — especially the exterior windows with a partial view of Lake Washington — and room for growth! We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of the donors who made this incredible building a reality, particularly Jim & Catherine Allchin, for whom our new lab space is named.

This week several members of the Security Lab attended the 25th HotMobile workshop in Santa Cruz, CA. Kiron Lebeck, graduating PhD student, presented his work on “Enabling Multiple Applications to Simultaneously Augment Reality: Challenges and Directions”. Shrirang Mare, former Security Lab postdoc (now a postdoc at Indiana University), presented his work on “Consumer Smart Homes: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go”. Congrats to Kiron and Shri on great talks and discussion (with a great view of the ocean in the background)!