Affiliation with the center is open to all faculty and students with research or teaching interests in computer security and privacy. Research interests within the center include: Authorizations, authentication, cryptography, distributed systems security, medical patient privacy, and network security.
Join the center
Are you faculty at UIC with interests in computer security and/or privacy?
Then you should join the center. Please send email to the director with your name, department, college, interests in security and privacy, and a link to a page which contains security/privacy interests.
The faculty
Center faculty are internationally known for their work in computer security. Their research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research and Industry.- Daniel J. Bernstein, Department of Math, Statistics and Computer Science.
- Isabel Cruz, Department of Computer Science, Security and Semantic Web.
- Peter Nelson, Department of Computer Science, Anti-spam and phishing.
- Sol Shatz, Department of Computer Science and Associate Dean in the College of Engineering, secure on-line auctions.
- A. Prasad Sistla, Department of Computer Science.
- Robert H. Sloan, Department of Computer Science.
- Jon A. Solworth, Department of Computer Science and Director of Center for RITES. Authorization, authentication, and distributed denial-of-service.
- Jeffrey Tsai, Department of Computer Science, Intrusion detection, security architecture, role-based access control policy, formal verification.
- V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Department of Computer Science and Co-Director of Center for RITES. Security policies and safe environments for execution of untrusted mobile code, Program analysis for protecting private and sensitive data, Host/Network based intrusion detection.
- Annette L. Valenta, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, Protection of patient health information in the academic research environment.
- Kaijie Woo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Side Channel Attacks, Countermeasures of Side Channel Attacks of Secure Chips.
- Lenore D. Zuck, Department of Computer Science.
Former faculty members of the Center
- Prith Banerjee, Dean, College of Engineering. Compiler and Hardware Approaches to Computer Security. Now director of HP Labs.