PURDUE CS E-NEWS APR 2022

Gleich and Tan receive promotion to full professor

David F. Gleich, Jyoti and Aditya Mathur Associate Professor of Computer Science, was promoted to full professor. Gleich’s research is focused on high performance and large scale computations with a focus on enabling previously infeasible analysis of data from biology, social networks, and scientific simulations. Matrix algebra is a particularly attractive paradigm to study these procedures as it often gives rise to efficient computational procedures in a variety of settings (serial, parallel, streaming). This research straddles a few different areas and often involves working with large datasets on high performance computing architectures (e.g. MPI clusters) and data computing architectures (e.g. MapReduce).

Lin Tan, Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Associate Professor of Data Science and Associate Professor of Computer Science, was promoted to full professor. Tan's research interests include artificial intelligence and software synergy, software engineering, software reliability and security, and software text analytics. Some of Tan’s research focuses on leveraging machine learning and natural language processing techniques to improve software dependability and using software approaches to improve the dependability of machine learning systems.

2022 Distinguished Alumnus

Peeyush Ranjan (MS '96), General Manager for consumer payment products (Google Pay) and Next Billion Users (NBU) at Google has been named the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award.

The Distinguished Alumni Award is awarded to exceptional alumni who provide significant leadership within their chosen field as well as noteworthy professional accomplishments that reflect favorably on their profession, the College of Science, Purdue University and society. The award recipients represent the very best of our alumni and we are honored to celebrate their significant achievements in the field and around the world.

Ford Fellowship

Blake Holman, a doctoral student at the Department of Computer Science was honored with a prestigious Ford Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences for the quality and potential impact of his security research. Holman’s work is in cryptography, specifically password storage and memory-hard functions. His advisor is Jeremiah Blocki, assistant professor of computer science.

NDSS 2022 Accepted Papers

The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022 was held April 24-28, 2022 in San Diego. The NDSS Symposium is a top venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of computer, network and distributed system security

AutoSec 2022 (Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security) was held in conjunction with the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022. Dongyan Xu, Samuel Conte Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS at Purdue University delivered the keynote for the Fourth International Workshop at AutoSec 2022.

ACCEPTED PAPERS

DRIVETRUTH: Automated Autonomous Driving Dataset Generation for Security Applications Raymond Muller (Purdue University), Yanmao Man (University of Arizona), Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue University), Ming Li (University of Arizona) and Ryan Gerdes (Virginia Tech) *This paper was the General Motors Security AutoDriving Security Award Winner - AutoSec 2022

hbACSS: How to Robustly Share Many Secrets Thomas Yurek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Licheng Luo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jaiden Fairoze (University of California, Berkeley), Aniket Kate (Purdue University), Andrew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Preventing Kernel Hacks with HAKCs Derrick McKee (Purdue University); Yianni Giannaris, Carolina Ortega, and Howard Shrobe (MIT CSAIL); Mathias Payer (EPFL), Hamed Okhravi and Nathan Burow (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) *This paper was awarded the Distinguished Paper Award - NDSS 2022

Physical Layer Data Manipulation Attacks on the CAN Bus Abdullah Zubair Mohammed (Virginia Tech), Yanmao Man (University of Arizona), Ryan Gerdes (Virginia Tech), Ming Li (University of Arizona) and Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue University)

RVPLAYER: Robotic Vehicle Forensics by Replay with What-if Reasoning Hongjun Choi (Purdue University), Zhiyuan Cheng (Purdue University), Xiangyu Zhang (Purdue University)

MIRROR: Model Inversion for Deep LearningNetwork with High Fidelity Shengwei An (Purdue University), Guanhong Tao (Purdue University), Qiuling Xu (Purdue University), Yingqi Liu (Purdue University), Guangyu Shen (Purdue University), Yuan Yao (Nanjing University), Jingwei Xu (Nanjing University), Xiangyu Zhang (Purdue University)

POSTER

Improving the Performance and Security of Tor’s Onion Services Arushi Arora (Purdue University), Sai Raj Karra (Purdue University, Dave Levin (University of Maryland), Christina Garman (Purdue University) *This poster received the Best Poster Presentation award - NDSS 2022

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) taking place April 30 - May 5 in New Orleans.

ACCEPTED PAPER

When Confidence Meets Accuracy: Exploring the Effects of Multiple Performance Indicators on Trust in Machine Learning Models Amy Rechkemmer (Purdue University); Ming Yin (Purdue University) *This paper received a Best Paper Award

ACCEPTED POSTER

Expectation vs. Experience: Evaluating the Usability of Code Generation Tools Powered by Large Language Models Priyan Vaithilingam (Harvard University), Tianyi Zhang (Purdue University), Elena Glassman (Harvard University)

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