Displaying items by tag: department of computer and information sciences faculty news
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and CIS students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
A research paper on detecting human mood using sensors in mobile devices from postdoctoral fellow Munirul Haque, Ph.D., in the laboratory of Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Computer and Information Sciences, has been selected as the best paper at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2013 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems.
February 28, 2014
NBC13 Investigates: All About You
“We pay our bills online, shop online even reconnect with long lost friends on the web. With all that information floating around out there, have you ever wondered how much someone could find out about you? You might be surprised as we found out when Alabama’s 13 Investigates: All About You.”
February 27, 2014
Brain Research Tracks Internet Safety Performance, Dispels Assumptions, Identifies Traits of those At-risk
New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that users pay more attention to Internet safety than previously assumed.
February 16, 2014
UAB Faculty, Students Create Free Cancer App for Jefferson and Surrounding Counties
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
January 23, 2014
UAB Researcher, Entrepreneur Among Top 10 influencers in Banking Information Security
BankInfo Security has named University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Gary Warner one of the Top 10 influencers in banking information security.
January 16, 2014
UAB Group’s Two Papers Accepted to Top Security Conference
Two research papers featuring the work of students in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Security and Privacy in Emerging computing and networking Systems (SPIES) Lab will be presented at the 2014 Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium.
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November 20, 2013
How a Cybersecurity Expert Protects His Smartphone
Smartphones are vulnerable, but a majority of people fail to protect their mobile devices. Cybersecurity expert Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s SECuRE and Trustworthy computing Lab (SECRET Lab), follows several simple steps to protect himself.
July 22, 2013
UAB Professor Leveraging Social Networks to Help Visually Impaired Children in Bangladesh
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor Ragib Hasan, Ph.D., continues to reach out across the world to help children in need.
July 17, 2013
UAB Research to Improve Online Communication Security
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers are working to improve the end-to-end security of an increasingly common means of communication.
April 17, 2013
Spies Like Us: Putting a New Spin on Computer Security
Computer security researchers put themselves into the minds of cybercriminals to figure out what they might do next. Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., takes a different approach. His mission is to get inside the minds of users—quite literally, in his latest project—to figure out how to protect them from new attacks.
February 28, 2013
UAB Develops a Simple Defense for Complex Smartphone Malware
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have developed simple but effective techniques to prevent sophisticated malware from secretly attacking smartphones.
NSF awarded a new grant to Prof. Solorio that will support the creation of annotated corpora to study mixed-language sources.
Gary Warner, UAB’s director of Research and Computer Forensics, will be featured on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, 2012, in a story about the FBI Trident Breach case.
March 14, 2012
The Tom Sawyer Effect in Computer Security
The security of computer systems often relies on the actions or decisions of the end users. However, users tend to perform poorly at security tasks or fail to comply with security instructions.
Small devices, especially Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, are being ubiquitously deployed in: contactless ATM and credit cards, access cards, e-passports, medical implants and even mobile phones (such as Google Wallet charged with NFC technology), to name a few.
March 13, 2012
Professors Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan Receive ONR Grant
Profs. Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan received a three year award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to support their research on document signatures.
