First round of Secure and Private IoT Initiative funded projects announced

CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has broken ground as the first round of funded proposals have been announced. Twelve selected projects will be funded for one year, and results will be presented at the IoT@CyLab annual summit next year.

All projects fall under one of the three IoT@CyLab main research themes: trust, accountability, and autonomous healing.

Funding for these projects was made possible by sponsorships from Amazon Web Services, AT&T Mobility, Infineon Technologies, and Nokia Bell Labs. These sponsors were active in working with IoT@CyLab co-directors Anthony Rowe and Vyas Sekar on the request for proposals and proposal review.

During the execution of these projects, faculty will collaborate with IoT@CyLab’s sponsors towards the mission of creating the knowledge and capabilities to build secure and privacy-respecting IoT systems.

Listed below are the funded projects with each project’s principal investigator(s) (PI) under each of the Initiative’s three main research themes.

Research Theme 1: Trust

Securing Embedded Software

• PI: David Brumley, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Toward a Smarthome IoT Infrastructure Free of Privacy Leaks and Software Vulnerabilities

• Co-PI: Lujo Bauer, Associate Professor (ECE, Institute for Software Research (ISR)); Director of the Cyber Autonomy Research Center
• • PI: Swarun Kumar, Assistant Professor (ECE)Co-PI: Limin Jia, Associate Research Professor (ECE)

    Lightweight Quantized Deep Neural Networks for IoT Devices

    • Co-PI: Shawn Blanton, Trustee Professor (ECE)
    • Co-PI: Diana Marculescu, David Edward Schramm Professor (ECE)

    IoT Device Privacy and Security Nutrition Labels

    • Co-PI: Lorrie Cranor, Director of CyLab; Professor in the Institute for Software Research (ISR) and Engineering and Public Policy (EPP)
    • Co-PI: Yuvraj Agarwal, Assistant Professor (ISR)

    Wireless Physical Layer Security

  • PI: Swarun Kumar, Assistant Professor (ECE)
  
  

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  Research Theme 2: Accountability

  Internet of Things Compliance Gaps Under New California Laws

  • PI: Aleecia M. McDonald, Assistant Professor of the Practice (INI)

  Third-Party Network Traffic Attribution and Cross-Device User Tracking for IoT and Web

  • PI: Timothy Libert, special faculty in the School of Computer Science (SCS)

  Privacy-preserving Inference and Decision-Making with IoT Data

  • Co-PI: Gauri Joshi, Assistant Professor (ECE)
  • Co-PI: Osman Yagan, Associate Research Professor (ECE)

  Privacy Preserving Data Analytics using Secure Multi-Party Computation

  • PI: Vipul Goyal, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department (CSD)
  
  

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  Research Theme 3: Autonomous Healing

  Flipping the Cloud: Managing and Protecting IoT Interactions among Mutually Distrusting Stakeholders at the Network Edge

  • PI: Patrick Tague, Associate Director, Information Networking Institute (INI); Associate Research Professor (ECE, INI)

  IoTHub for Managing and Securing Devices in the Home

  • PI: Jason Hong, Professor (HCII)

  Do-It-Yourself-Locally: An IoT Architecture for Localized Data Control for Privacy and Security

  • PI: Yuvraj Agarwal, Assistant Professor (ISR)

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