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Research Opportunity for Cybersecurity in Self-driving Car and Smart City

Professor Qi Alfred Chen at the Computer Science department is looking for undergraduate/graduate students interested in research on existing cybersecurity problems in self-driving cars, smart cities, and IoT/CPS systems in general. Prof. Chen is an expert in discovering and fixing security problems in emerging technologies such as smartphone, smart home, and smart transportation. His work has found multiple security flaws in both computer systems such as Android and smart traffic light system, and computer network protocols such as in TCP and DNS. These results led to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) US-CERT Alert (TA16-144A), multiple CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) and Android bug tracking records, and email acknowledgements from security teams in Apple, Microsoft, and Comcast. His research was published in all the top-tier security conferences, and covered in more than 50 news articles by major technology new media such as Ars Technica, CNET News, BBC News, Wired, etc. More details can be found in his webpage at http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~alfchen/.

Any undergraduate/graduate students with strong background on the system and/or networking knowledge, or with good programming or reverse engineering skills are encouraged to apply. Security background, static or dynamic program analysis, or formal verification experiences are not required but big pluses. If you are interested in practical security problems and enjoy hacking, the position would be an excellent fit.

If you are interested, please introduce yourself and drop your CV and transcript (unofficial is fine) at [email protected].

Alfred Chen's Homepage (06/07/2018) Please checkout my article in The Conversation about our recent work on software security in emerging smart traffic control!