Academic and Applied Research for Cybersecurity Challenges
Georgia Tech is at the forefront of creating the next, new cybersecurity solutions with immediate application in the real world -- working to strengthen national defense, ensure economic continuity, and protect individual freedom. Our aim is to anticipate, overcome and continually resist emerging cyberthreats through expert insight, innovative breakthroughs, and cutting-edge curriculum.
Policy
How should the private sector use personal data? Should the government be able to access communication in transit or at rest?
Consumer-Facing Privacy
How can consumers securely interact with technology? What are the best practices?
Attribution
How can we definitively know who is responsible for a cyber breach? What can be done when we cannot attribute the breach?
Trust
How should people, machines, and networks establish trust in reliable ways? How does the trust relationship change over time?
Cyber Physical Systems
What inputs and outputs should be part of the most fortified embedded and physical systems?
Current Research Activity
A sampling of projects underway now is listed below. Cybersecurity research at Georgia Tech spans 12 labs and centers devoted to academic, applied, and classified work for military, government and private industry.
To inquire about these projects, contact the Principal Investigator.
To initiate a new, cybersecurity research project with Georgia Tech, contact:
- Stephen Moulton (government business)
- Gloria Griessman (industry engagement)
Pen Testing
"Embedasploit": A "Pen-Test-In-a-Box" for Industrial Control Systems
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Funded: $1.2 M
End Date: Apr. 2019
Intl' Data Policy
Cross-Border Requests for Data Project
Principal Investigator: Peter Swire
Co-PIs: multiple
Funded: $400 K
End Date: --
Big Data Privacy
"Sharesafe": A Framework for Researchers and Data Owners
Principal Investigator: Raheem Beyah
Funded: $500 K
End Date: Aug. 2018
Backscattering
Exploration of THZ Backscattering as a Side-Channel in Computer Systems
Principal Investigator: Alenka Zajic
Co-PIs: M. Prvulovic
Funded: $454 K
End Date: Jul. 2019
DDoS Attack Mitigation
"ROKI": Resource-Oriented Computation for Low-Volume DDoS Attacks
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Co-PIs: W. Lee, W. Harris
Funded: $2.6 M
End Date: Apr. 2019
Fortifying Machine Learning
Understanding and Fortifying Machine Learning-based Security Analytics
Principal Investigator: Polo Chau
Co-PIs: T. Kim, W. Lee, L. Song
Funded: $1.2 M
End Date: Jul. 2021
Threat Attribution
"Rhamnousia": Attributing Cyber Actors Through Tensor Decomposition and Novel Data Acquisition
Principal Investigator: Manos Antonakakis
Co-PIs: M. Farrell, M. Ahamad, R. Beyah, D. Blough, D. Dagon
Funded: $17.3 M
End Date: May 2021
Side-Channel Attacks
"CAMELIA": Computational Activity Monitoring by Externally Leveraging Involuntary Analog Signals
Principal Investigator: Alenka Zajic
Co-PIs: A. Orso, M. Prvulovic
Funded: $9.4 M
End Date: May 2020
Information Assurance
"THEIA": Tagging and Tracking of Multi-level Host Events for Transparent Computing and Information Assurance
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Co-PIs: T. Kim, A. Orso
Funded: $4.3 M
End Date: Jun. 2019
Search Rank Fraud
Cracking Down Online Deception Ecosystems
Principal Investigator: Polo Chau
Funded: $260 K
End Date: Aug. 2019
Cisco Code Integrity
Runtime Detection of Code Integrity Attacks
Principal Investigator: Vincent John Mooney
Funded: $100 K
End Date: Sept. 2018
Interdomain Modeling
Economics of Contractual Arrangements for Internet Interconnections
Principal Investigator: Constantine Dovrolis
Funded: $590 K
End Date: Sept. 2019
Big Data Mining
Human-Computer Graph Exploration and Tele-Discovery
Principal Investigator: Polo Chau
Funded: $600 K
End Date: Jul. 2020
Smart Cities
Adaptive Management and Use of Resilient Infrastructure in Smart Cities
Principal Investigator: Calton Pu
Funded: $375 K
End Date: Aug. 2018
Network Protocol Analysis
A Unifying Framework for Theoretical & Empirical Analysis
Principal Investigator: Sasha Boldyreva
Funded: $280 K
End Date: Jul. 2018
Intel Machine Learning
Intel Science & Technology Center for Adversary-Resilient Security Analytics
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Co-PIs: P. Chau, T. Kim, , L. Song
Funded: $1.5 M
End Date: --
Models for Privacy
A Mathematical Model of Privacy Decisions: A Behavioral Economic Perspective
Principal Investigator: Fariborz Farahmand
Co-PI: Dana Randall
Funded: $275 K
End Date: Aug. 2018
System Profiling
Spectral Profiling: Understanding Software Performance without Code Instrumentation
Principal Investigator: Alessandro Orso
Co-PIs: M. Prvulovic, A. Zajic
Funded: $850 K
End Date: Jun. 2019
Mobile Fraud
Exposing and Mitigating Cross-Channel Attacks
Principal Investigator: Mustaque Ahamad
Co-PI: Manos Antonakakis
Funded: $900 K
End Date: Jul. 2019
Memory Forensics
GEMINI: Guided Execution ASED Mobile Advanced Persistent Threat Investigation
Principal Investigator: Brendan Saltaformaggio
Funded: $175 K
End Date: Jan. 2020
Privacy in the Cloud
Privacy Preserving Computation in Big Data Clouds
Principal Investigator: Ling Liu
Co-PI: Calton Pu
Funded: $1.2 M
End Date: Apr. 2020
IoT Security
Hardware-Oriented Secure Edge Analytics for IoT
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Funded: $100 K
End Date: Oct. 2018
Actionable Defense
ADAPT: An Analytical Framework fro Actionable Defense
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Funded: $600 K
End Date: May 2019
Fuzzing Performance
System Techniques to Improve Fuzzing Performance
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Funded: $500 K
End Date: Feb. 2023
SGX Security
Systems, Tools, and Techniques for Executing, Managing and Securing SGX Programs
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Funded: $671 K
End Date: May 2020
Pollution Attacks
"EPICA": Empowering People to Overcome Information Controls and Attacks
Principal Investigator: Wenke Lee
Co-PIs: N. Feamster, H. Klein, H. Zha
Funded: $1.1 M
End Date: Jun. 2019
Detection & Cleanup
"Gnomon": Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyberadversary Systems
Primary Investigator: Michael Farrell
Co-PI: M. Antonakakis, G. Macon, S.Scott
Funded: $12.8 M
End Date: Apr. 2022
Debloating the Stack
Interactive Editing Techniques for Subsetting and Dielecting Network Protocols
Principal Investigator: Taesoo Kim
Co-PIs: W. Harris, W. Lee, A. Orso, S. Pande, B. Saltaformaggio
Funded: $2.9M
End Date: Aug. 2021
Funding for these projects and others is made possible by the Air Force Research Labs, Cisco University Research Program Fund, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Georgia Research Alliance, Intel Corp., Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, Samsung, and more.
