Displaying items by tag: department of computer and information sciences faculty news
September 21, 2018
Online communities see large growth in anti-Semitic comments, memes
Large-scale quantitative analysis details the rise of anti-Semitism and how anti-Semitic content flows across mainstream and fringe web communities.
In a large-scale analysis, Jeremy Blackburn, Ph.D., and collaborators found that the misuse of web archive services cause loss of ad revenue for popular news websites.
June 14, 2018
Researchers investigate potential threat to speech privacy via smartphone motion sensors
UAB’s team found that smartphone motion sensors may pose a threat to speech privacy only if devices are sharing the same surface.
Such analysis, researchers say, can help identify pathogen contact points between species, including pathogens causing human disease.
April 17, 2018
Automating personal safety with wearable smart jewelry
The Smart Bracelet, designed by UAB researchers, automatically detects signs of physical assault and alerts emergency personnel of the user’s location.
Gary Warner, cybersecurity expert and director of Research in Computer Forensics, offers tips on which Facebook settings to pay close attention to.
April 03, 2018
They Persisted
Despite complex social, cultural, and professional trends that keep women from academic careers in the sciences and mathematics, a small percentage of female research faculty stay the course.
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March 02, 2018
Cloning your voice in a minute
"Humans will over time become even more vulnerable to such attacks," warns Dr. Nitesh Saxena of UAB's Department of Computer Science.
January 26, 2018
Researchers propose novel solution to better secure voice over internet communication
Security researchers develop automated verification model to better secure data sent via.
October 17, 2017
Faculty Receive University Awards
Renato Camata, Roger Gilchrist, Samiksha Raut, and Nitesh Saxena were all recognized this year for their excellence in teaching, mentorship and advising.
October 17, 2017
Nine Departments Welcome New Faculty Members
This fall, new faculty members join the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Criminal Justice, the Department of English, the Department of Music, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Social Work, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Theatre.
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May 31, 2017
SPIES Research Wins High School Student Accolades
Dr. Saxena and Maliheh Shirvanian of the SPIES research group worked with high school student Summer Vo on security research this past year. Vo won third place at the 2017 Central Alabama Regional Science and Engineering Fair (CARSEF) in the Computer Science and Mathematics category and was awarded the INTEL Excellence in Computer Science Outstanding Achievement.
February 13, 2017
Da Yan Surveys Big Graph Analytics Platforms
This is the first text to provide a comprehensive survey that clearly summarizes the key features and techniques developed in the tens of existing big graph analytics systems, which were developed recently to deal with massive graphs in real-life applications such as online social networks and knowledge graphs.
January 25, 2017
Dr. Saxena Receives Excellence in Mentorship Award
Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., associate professor and research director in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, has been named a recipient of the Dean’s Excellence in Mentorship Award from the UAB Graduate School.
September 26, 2016
Research Proposes Background Noise to Prevent Side Channel Attacks on Computer Keyboards
Researchers have developed a mechanism that emits sound to thwart eavesdroppers from detecting passwords entered with computer keyboards.
A wearable cloud make the design of mobile and wearable devices simple, inexpensive and lightweight by having mobile device users tap into the resources of the wearable cloud, instead of relying solely on the capabilities of their mobile hardware.
Only 151 computer scientists worldwide were recognized as senior members by the ACM in 2015.
April 25, 2016
Budding Knowledge
The College of Arts and Sciences welcomed several new chairs last summer, including leadership for three of our popular and competitive science departments: Dr. Richard Dluhy in Chemistry, Dr. Ilias Perakis in Physics, and Dr. Yuliang Zheng in Computer and Information Sciences.
Study shows that, although ZEBRA, a system intended to enable prompt and user-friendly deauthentication, works very well with honest people, opportunistic attackers can fool the system.
December 18, 2015
CIS Research Covered in MIT Tech Review
The most recent research conducted in the SPIES lab at CIS has been covered in MIT Technology Review.
