PURDUE CS E-NEWS Jan 2022

PEDRO FONSECA WINS NSF CAREER AWARD

Computer science assistant professor and systems security researcher, Pedro Fonseca, received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fonseca’s work is titled, “Towards Reliable Operating Systems through Scalable Control- and Data-Flow Analysis.” His project will develop testing techniques that are especially suited to find software bugs in modern operating system kernels.

Sonia Fahmy Named IEEE FELLOW

Sonia Fahmy, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Department Head, has been elevated to fellow status in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professional organization. She is being recognized for contributions to design and evaluation of network protocols and sensor networks.

NINGHUI LI NAMED ACM FELLOW

Professor Ninghui Li was named ACM Fellow. He was recognized "for contributions to data privacy, access control, and trust management." Li is a well-known researcher and leader with high impact research and technology contributions to data privacy and security. On data privacy, Li has made multiple important contributions, both on theoretical foundations of privacy notions, and on practical yet privacy-rigorous data publishing methods.

LIN TAN NAMED DISTINGUISHED MEMBER OF THE ACM

Associate Professor Lin Tan was named a Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). This honor is in recognition of her significant research accomplishments and contributions in computing. The ACM Distinguished Member designation is the second highest level of distinction for ACM members. Less than 10% of ACM members may ever hold a Distinguished Member designation.

MIKHAIL ATALLAH WINS TEST OF TIME AWARD FROM ACSAC

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Mikhail Atallah for his Test of Time Award from the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Both Atallah and Professor Wenliang (Kevin) Dul received recognition from the ACSAC 2021 virtual conference. The paper titled, “Privacy-preserving cooperative statistical analysis,” was published in the Seventeenth Annual Computer Security Applications Conference in December, 2001.

BIANCHI AND CELIK WIN 2021 ASPIRE AWARD

Assistant Professors Antonio Bianchi, Berkay Celik and their research group in the PurSecLab have won the 2021 Android Security and PrIvacy REsearch (ASPIRE) Award for their work on improving usability of Android APIs for conformity of standard security practices.

inclusive environment leads to growth and opportunity

Marie Oberlin chose Purdue for its reputation in computer science and engineering, ultimately realizing she had more of an interest in software than hardware, she applied and was accepted as a computer science major. From her hometown in Honolulu, she decided to take a small step on the way to her next giant leap.

Students earn Academic All-Big Ten recognition

Three student-athletes from Purdue University's Department of Computer Science earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition during the fall 2021 sports season. The group of three are the only computer science majors on Purdue University's Cross Country team and all earned honors.

12 PURDUE CS AFFILIATED PAPERS ACCEPTED AT NEURIPS 2021

Seven Purdue CS faculty members had accepted papers at NeurIPS 2021. The following 12 papers were presented by Purdue CS researchers at NeurIPS 2021. The Neural Information Processing Systems is a premier conference for the exchange of research advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• Meta-Adaptive Nonlinear Control: Theory and Algorithms, Guanya Shi, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Michael O'Connell, Soon-Jo Chung, Yisong Yue
• Off-Policy Risk Assessment in Contextual Bandits Audrey Huang, Liu Leqi, Zachary Lipton, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli
• Fair Sparse Regression with Clustering: An Invex Relaxation for a Combinatorial Problem Adarsh Barik, Jean Honorio, * earned a Spotlight Paper
• Inverse Reinforcement Learning in a Continuous State Space with Formal Guarantees Gregory Dexter, Kevin Bello Jean Honorio
• Adversarial Graph Augmentation to Improve Graph Contrastive Learning Susheel Suresh, Pan Li, Cong Hao, Jennifer Neville
• Local Hyper-Flow Diffusion Kimon Fountoulakis, Pan Li, Shenghao Yang
• Reconstruction for Powerful Graph Representations Leonardo Cotta, Christopher Morris, Bruno Ribeiro
• Are My Deep Learning Systems Fair? An Empirical Study of Fixed-Seed Training Shangshu Qian, Hung Pham, Thibaud Lutellier, Zeou Hu, Jungwon Kim, Lin Tan, Yaoliang Yu, Jiahao Chen, Sameena Shah
• LSH-SMILE: Locality Sensitive Hashing Accelerated Simulation and Learning Chonghao Sima, Yexiang Xue
• Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Learning with DNA as Side Information Sarkhan Badirli, Zeynep Akata, George Mohler, Christine Picard, Mehmet Dundar
• Sequential Causal Imitation Learning with Unobserved Confounders Daniel Kumor, Junzhe Zhang, Elias Bareinboim
• Double Machine Learning Density Estimation for Local Treatment Effects with Instruments Yonghan Jung, Jin Tian, Elias Bareinboim

Eugene Spafford discusses the first major computer worm

Featured on the podcast, BBCSounds | The Hackers, Spafford discusses the first major computer worm. As the first person to analyze the worm that caused so much chaos, Spaf discusses why worms can still be so devastating decades later.

Aniket kate on Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and NFTs

Associate Professor Aniket Kate is a guest on All IN and discusses how virtual currencies started, what impact they've had so far, and where things might be going in the years ahead.

Future students may visit Purdue's campus and tour the Department of Computer Science. Anyone wishing to visit Purdue's campus during the Spring 2022 semester should carefully review the Protect Purdue visitor guidelines prior to their visit for the latest information and protocols currently in place on campus.

The Department of Computer Science offers an information session which you can schedule in advance. Arrange a visit to Purdue's campus through the Office of Admissions.