# news

id: 20180315164930
short_title: 2019 IEEE Elections
date: 2018-02-22
url: http://vincenzopiuri.org/
short_description:
<img src="/images/people/vincenzo-piuri_tn.jpg" alt="Vincenzo Piuri" align="left" style="margin-right:7pt">CSIS proudly endorses <a href="http://vincenzopiuri.org/" title="Vincenzo Piuri" target="_blank">Prof. Vincenzo Piuri</a> for election as the 2019 IEEE President-Elect.


id: 20180315165527
short_title: School Rankings
date: 2018-02-01
url: https://www.cyberdegrees.org/listings/top-schools/#Best_Cyber_Security
short_description:
CyberDegrees.com has ranked George Mason University no. 8 in their list of the <a href="https://www.cyberdegrees.org/listings/top-schools/#Best_Cyber_Security" title="Top 20 Cyber Security Schools" target="_blank">top 20 cyber security schools</a> in the country! 


id: 20180315170111
short_title: DoD Scolarship Program
date: 2018-01-23
url: /pages/news.php?id=20180315170111
short_description:
<img src="/images/icons/scholarship.png" alt="DoD IASP" width="55" height="55" align="left">The deadline to apply for the DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program is fast approaching. <a href="/iasp/" title="DoD Information Assurance Scholarship Program">Apply by February, 12 2018</a>!


id: 20180315173233
short_title: CSIS in the News
date: 2017-10-10
url: https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/487026
short_description:
A <a href="https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/487026" title="Cybersecurity professor teaches best defense against cyberattacks - Massimiliano Albanese" target="_blank"> story about Dr. Albanese </a> has appeared on the website of the Volgenau School of Engineering.


id: 20180328164615
short_title: Jajodia ranked 78th worldwide, 60th in US
date: 2018-03-27
url: http://www.guide2research.com/scientists/
short_description:
Based on the H-index metric, Sushil Jajodia is ranked 78th worldwide, 60th in the United States, and 1st at George Mason University among scientists in the area of Computer Science and Electronics.


id: 20180405160751
short_title: Story about Vincenzo Piuri
date: 2018-04-05
url: https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/511771
short_description:
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, a professor of computer engineering at the University of Milan, Italy, and a visiting researcher at the Center for Secure Information Systems, has been featured in a story on the Volgenau School's website. Prof. Piuri is a candidate for the position of 2019 IEEE President-Elect.


id: 20180731133209
short_title: Best Paper Award at SECRYPT 2018
date: 2018-07-30
url: http://www.secrypt.icete.org/PreviousAwards.aspx
short_description:
<img align="left" width="50" height="50" src="http://csis.gmu.edu/images/icons/award.jpg" alt="Award">The paper&nbsp;<span class="bibtex-title">"A Quantitative Framework to Model Advanced Persistent Threats," by&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;L.H.&nbsp;<span class="bibtex-author">Pham, M. Albanese, and B.W. Priest received the Best Paper Award at the&nbsp;</span><span class="bibtex-booktitle" style="font-style: italic;">15th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2018)</span>,&nbsp; Porto, Portugal, July 26-28, 2018.


id: 20180811145825
short_title: NSF Workshop on SPS
date: 2018-08-13
url: /pages/news.php?id=20180811145825
short_description:
Dr. Kun Sun co-chaires an NSF Community-Building Workshop on Programmable System Security in a Software Defined World at George Mason University with Guofei Gu (TAMU), David Ott (VMware), and Vyas Sekar (CMU). This workshop is sponsored by NSF CISE.<br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium;"></span>


id: 20180821154454
short_title: New NSF funding Award
date: 2018-08-21
url: /pages/news.php?id=20180821154454
short_description:
Dr. Kun Sun received a funding award from NSF for project titled "SaTC: TTP: Small: Enhancing Container Security via Fine-Grained System Resource Constraints".


id: 20180821155244
short_title: New NSF Funding Award
date: 2018-08-07
url: /pages/news.php?id=20180821155244
short_description:
Dr. Kun Sun received a funding award from NSF for a project titled "Visioning Workshop on Programmable Security in a Software-Defined World".<br>


id: 20180821162201
short_title: GRA and Postdoc Positions Available
date: 2018-08-16
url: /pages/news.php?id=20180821162201
short_description:
CSIS has several GRA and Post-Doctoral positions available in the area of systems and network security. Please contact Prof. Kun Sun.&nbsp;<br>


id: 20181001165247
short_title: New MURI Award
date: 0018-09-12
url: /pages/news.php?id=20181001165247
short_description:
&nbsp;Dr. Sushil Jajodia received a MURI award from the Office of Naval Research in the amount of $7.5m for the project "Generating Documents that are Consistent with a Knowledge Base."


id: 20181002140249
short_title: New MURI Award
date: 2018-10-01
url: /pages/news.php?id=20181002140249
short_description:
Dr. Jajodia received a $7.5M MURI award from the Office of Naval Research for the project "Generating Documents that are Consistent with a Knowledge Base."


id: 20181002142304
short_title: New DoD Scholarship Award
date: 2018-08-24
url: /pages/news.php?id=20181002142304
short_description:
Dr. Jajodia and Dr. Albanese received a $159,612 award from NSA to administer the DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (CySP).


id: 20181005142912
short_title: NSF IUCRC Phase II Award
date: 2018-09-06
url: /pages/news.php?id=20181005142912
short_description:
Sushil Jajodia, Massimiliano Albanese, Rajesh Ganesan,  Emanuela Marasco, and Kun Sun received funding from the National Science Foundation for their project “Phase II IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation (CCAA)”.


id: 20181009201637
date: 2018-10-09
url: http://www.ipta-conference.com/ipta18/
short_title:
CSIS Undergraduate Student has a Research Paper accepted at IEEE Image Processing Theory and Applications (IPTA) 2018

short_description:
&nbsp;Research study related to the detection of non-cooperative presentation attacks to fingerprint sensors


id: 20181128103445
short_description: &nbsp;Research study related to predicting liveness from latent fingerprints.
date: 2018-11-28
url: http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Paul.Rosin/IVF2019/
short_title:
CSIS Undergraduate Student has a Research Paper accepted at IEEE Image and Video Forensics (IVF) 2019, Workshop in Conjunction with WACV


id: 20181210144825
short_title: Cybersecurity Scholarships
date: 2018-12-10
url: /pages/news.php?id=20181210144825
short_description:
N<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ow accepting applications for the 2019-2020 Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (CySP)</span>


id: 20190119121831
short_title: One paper accepted by USENIX Security'19
date: 2019-01-19
url: /pages/news.php?id=20190119121831
short_description:
<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-size-adjust: auto;">One paper titled "The CrossPath Attack: Disrupting the SDN Control Channel via Shared Links" has been accepted by USENIX Security19.</span>


id: 20190603102702
short_title: One paper accepted by RAID 2019
date: 2019-05-29
url: /pages/news.php?id=20190603102702
short_description:
One paper titled "Fingerprinting SDN Applications via Encrypted Control Traffic" has been accepted by RAID 2019.&nbsp;


id: 20190603103316
short_title: Two papers accepted by DSN 2019.
date: 2019-03-04
url: /pages/news.php?id=20190603103316
short_description:
One full paper titled "SATIN: A Secure and Trustworthy Asynchronous Introspection on Multi-Core ARM Processors" accepted by DSN 2019.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>One short paper titled "Detecting "0-Day" Vulnerability: An Empirical Study of Secret Security Patch in OSS" accepted by DSN 2019.&nbsp;</div>


id: 20190827123610
short_title: Paper accepted by BTAS Special Session 2019
date: 2019-08-27
url: http://ieee-biometrics.org/btas2019/
short_description:
One paper titled "B<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">iases in Fingerprint Recognition Systems: Where Are We At?" has been accepted by BTAS -&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13.6px;">Special Session on Generalizability and Adaptability in Biometrics 2019.</span>


id: 20190915180643
short_title: Grant from NIJ
date: 2019-09-15
short_description:
&nbsp;Dr. Marasco receives a grant from the National Institute of Justice - Research related to Accounting for Covariates in Forensic Error Rate Assessment and Evidence Interpretation.


id: 20190916121854
short_title: Paper accepted by CCS 2019
date: 2019-09-16
short_description:
&nbsp;One paper titled "<span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Multisketches: Practical Secure Sketches Using Off-the-Shelf&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Biometric Matching Algorithms" has been accepted by&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(50, 49, 48); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2019</span>


id: 20191028093848
short_title: Job openings at IAI
date: 2019-10-28
url: /pages/news.php?id=20191028093848
short_description:
Our industry partner Intelligent Automation Inc. has several openings in Security for BS, MS, and PhD graduates.


id: 20191114164251
short_title: One paper accpeted by NDSS 2020
date: 2019-11-14
url: /pages/news.php?id=20191114164251
short_description:
&nbsp;One paper titled "When Match Fields Do Not Need to Match: Buffered Packets Hijacking in SDN" has been accepted by NDSS 2020. <br>


id: 20200106110504
short_title: Cybersecurity Scholarships
date: 2020-01-06
url: /pages/news.php?id=20200106110504
short_description:
<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">N</span><span style="font-size: 13.6px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">ow accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (CySP)</span>


id: 20200607003236
short_title: One paper accepted by Raid 2020
date: 2020-06-03
url: /pages/news.php?id=20200607003236
short_description:
One paper titled "<span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 94, 88); color: rgb(85, 94, 88); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">SIEVE: Secure In-Vehicle Automatic Speech Recognition Systems</span>" has been accepted by Raid 2020.&nbsp;


id: 20200607003722
short_title: One paper accepted by CCS 2020
date: 2020-06-07
url: /pages/news.php?id=20200607003722
short_description:
One paper titled "When the Differences in Frequency Domain are Compensated: Understanding and Defeating Modulated Replay Attacks on Automatic Speech Recognition" has been accepted by CCS 2020.&nbsp;


id: 20200616170431
short_title: Grant on COVID-19
date: 2020-06-16
url: /pages/news.php?id=20200616170431
short_description:
Dr. Marasco received a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for COVID-19 related biometrics research.&nbsp;


id: 20200803165130
short_title: Cyber Degrees EDU Ranking
date: 2020-07-28
url: https://cyberdegreesedu.org/programs/masters/best-schools/
short_description:
Cyber Degrees EDU has ranked&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">George Mason University #18 for the <a href="https://cyberdegreesedu.org/programs/masters/best-schools/" title="" target="">Best School</a> to earn a Cyber Security Master's Degree.</span><div><br></div>


id: 20200814103540
short_title: Media Coverage
date: 2020-08-12
url: https://www.cio.com/article/3570728/7-steps-to-prepare-it-for-a-second-wave-covid-19-outbreak.html
short_description:
Dr. Albanese was mentioned in a CIO article on how to prepare IT for a possible second wave of COVID-19.


id: 20200824212244
short_title: IEEE McDowell Award
date: 2020-08-24
url: https://www.uoalumni.com/s/1540/uoaa/index.aspx?sid=1540&gid=3&pgid=10235
short_description:
<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">The IEEE Computer Society has recognized Dr. Jajodia with the 2020 W. Wallace McDowell Award f</span>or his “contributions to the scientific and engineering principles that enable adaptive cyber defense.”&nbsp;


id: 20200831105536
short_title: Media Coverage
date: 2020-08-27
short_description:
Dr. Marasco's work on&nbsp;a contactless fingertip imaging system to detect COVID-19 was featured on health24.

url:
https://www.health24.com/Medical/Infectious-diseases/Coronavirus/scientists-are-working-on-a-new-way-to-detect-covid-19-through-the-fingertips-20200827-5


id: 20200910111325
short_title: Dr. Jajodia becomes CCAA Director
date: 2020-08-28
url: http://ccaa.gmu.edu/
short_description:
<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">Dr. Jajodia was appointed as the new Director of the NSF IUCRC </span>Center for Cybersecurity Analytics and Automation,&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">effective August 27, 2020.&nbsp;</span>


id: 20201117150925
short_title: New Coverage
date: 2020-11-17
url: https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/592691
short_description:
Dr. Kun Sun's work on secret security patch was covered by Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University.&nbsp;<br>


id: 20201207171137
short_title: IAPR CVIP 2020 Best Paper
date: 2020-12-07
url: https://cvip2020.iiita.ac.in/
short_description:
&nbsp;Two papers accepted by IAPR CVIP 2020. Dr. Marasco and her PhD student receive the best paper award of IAPR CVIP 2020


id: 20210324021610
short_title: New Paper in DSN 2021
date: 2021-03-24
url: /pages/news.php?id=20210324021610
short_description:
Dr. Kun Sun and his students have one paper titled "PatchDB: A Large-Scale Security Patch Dataset" being accepted by DSN 2021.&nbsp;


id: 20210428105936
short_title: CCI Cyber Camp
date: 2021-04-28
url: https://cyberinitiative.org/talent-development/cci-cyber-camp.html
short_description:
The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative invites undergrads to&nbsp;join the CCI Cyber Camp. Registration closes on May 6, 2021.


id: 20210506222903
short_title: New Paper in CCS 2021
date: 2021-05-06
url: /pages/news.php?id=20210506222903
short_description:
&nbsp;Dr. Kun Sun has one paper titled "Locating the Security Patches for Disclosed OSS Vulnerabilities with Vulnerability-Commit Correlation Ranking" being accepted by CCS 2021.&nbsp;


id: 20210713004257
short_title: PatchDB Database Released!
date: 2021-07-13
url: https://sunlab-gmu.github.io/PatchDB/
short_description:
We release a large-scale security patch dataset called PatchDB that contains around 12K security patches and 24K non-security patches from the real world. The related paper is published in DSN 2021. &nbsp;<br>


id: 20210928152653
short_title: Two new papers in SEC 2022
date: 2021-09-28
url: /pages/news.php?id=20210928152653
short_description:
&nbsp;Dr. Kun Sun has two papers being accepted by Usenix Security 2022. One paper is on hotpatching IOT devices, and another paper is about container registry typosquatting.


id: 20211012102436
short_title: Spring 2022 INNOVATE Cyber
date: 2021-10-12
url: /pages/news.php?id=20211012102436
short_description:
INNOVATE Cyber is a paid ($1000) experiential learning opportunity via Zoom for cybersecurity and IT field undergraduate majors. Applications due by November 15.


id: 20211113133127
short_title: IAPR CVIP 2021 paper
date: 2021-11-13
url: https://iitrpr.cvip2021.com/
short_description:
&nbsp;Dr. Marasco and her PhD student have a paper accepted by CVIP 2021 on PAD in smartphones.&nbsp;


id: 20211113134541
short_title: IEEE Big Data Workshop paper
date: 2021-11-13
url: https://www.comstar-tech.org/workshop_2021_multimodal.html
short_description:
&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12.92px; background-color: rgb(255, 237, 182);">Dr. Marasco and her PhD student have a paper accepted by IEEE Big Data for Multimodal AI 2021 on generalization strategies for robust security systems in mobiles.</span>


id: 20211217131332
short_title: New Internship Opportunity
date: 2021-12-17
url: https://csis.gmu.edu/VA-CNIP/
short_description:
We are now accepting applications for the&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 13.6px; text-align: justify;">Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program (VA-CNIP), in partnership with the Virginia Department of Elections.</span>


id: 20211217150449
short_title: DoD Cybersecurity Scholarships
date: 2021-12-17
url: https://csis.gmu.edu/CySP/
short_description:
We are now accepting applications for the&nbsp;DoD Cybersecurity Scholarship Program. Applications are due on February 1, 2022.


id: 20220121152224
short_title: Dr. Jajodia Named ACM Fellow
date: 2022-01-19
url: https://www.gmu.edu/news/2022-01/masons-sushil-jajodia-named-acm-fellow
short_description:
S<span style="font-size: 13.6px;">ushil Jajodia was named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow</span>&nbsp;for his contributions to cybersecurity, data protection and privacy.


id: 20220210163841
short_title: NSF CAREER Award
short_description: &nbsp;Dr. Yan received an NSF CAREER Award for his work on panoramic video compression.
date: 2022-02-07
url:
https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2022-02/mason-nsf-career-award-looks-compressing-and-transmitting-panoramic-video-accurate


id: 20220301130726
short_title: Election Security Workshop
date: 2022-03-01
url: https://csis.gmu.edu/EIS-2022/
short_description:
Dr. Albanese is organizing and will co-chair the 1<sup>st</sup> International Workshop on Election Infrastructure Security (EIS 2022), to be co-located with ESORICS 2022.


id: 20220614233720
short_title: Presidential Award
short_description: &nbsp;Dr. Sun is recognized with the Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Research in 2022.
date: 2022-06-13
url:
https://www.gmu.edu/news/2022-06/nine-faculty-members-recognized-presidential-awards-faculty-excellence


id: 20220914005220
short_title: U.S. News Ranking
date: 2022-09-12
short_description:
Mason's undergraduate cybersecurity program ranked 10<sup>th</sup> nationally among public universities, up from 15<sup>th</sup>, according to U.S. News &amp; World Report.

url:
https://www.gmu.edu/news/2022-09/mason-now-top-10-public-university-diversity-innovation-and-cybersecurity-education-us


id: 20220920105247
short_title: MITRE's Collaboration
date: 2022-09-19
url: https://cwe.mitre.org/top25/archive/2022/2022_cwe_top25_supplemental.html#comparison_mason
short_description:
MITRE's CWE Team mentions Dr. Albanese's work on CWE ranking and their collaboration with George Mason University on&nbsp;their website.


id: 20221020112414
short_title: CAE Tech Talks
date: 2022-10-17
url: https://csis.gmu.edu/uploads/CAE-Tech-Talks-2022-10-20.pdf
short_description:
Drs. Albanese and Sun will present their research in the&nbsp;CAE Tech Talk series on October 20, 2022.&nbsp;


id: 20221208092752
short_title: CSIS alum elected IEEE fellow
date: 2022-12-08
short_description:
&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Vijayalakshmi Atluri </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">has been named an IEEE Fellow&nbsp;<i style="">for contributions to security and privacy for data and workflow systems.</i><br>
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url:
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf


id: 20230406205040
short_title: New Assistant Professor at UT Dallas
date: 2023-04-06
url: /pages/news.php?id=20230406205040
short_description:
Our Ph.D. student, Xinda Wang, will join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2023.


id: 20230406212152
short_title: Dr. Zhisheng Yan won Presidential Award
date: 2023-04-06
url: /pages/news.php?id=20230406212152
short_description:
Prof. Zhisheng Yan was selected as a recipient of the Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Research in 2023. This is the second Presidential Award&nbsp;won by CSIS faculties in the past 2 years.&nbsp;


id: 20231019171315
short_title: Security at our Fingertips
date: 2023-10-16
url: https://cec.gmu.edu/news/2023-10/sweaty-palms-safeguarding-security
short_description:
Emanuela Marasco is researching a novel method of identity verification using sweat samples from fingertips, as sweat contains unique metabolites that can discriminate between individuals. Her work involves hyperspectral imaging (HSI), providing a rapid and non-invasive means of identification.


id: 20231106121850
short_title: Cybersecurity Scholarships
date: 2023-11-06
url: https://csis.gmu.edu/CySP/
short_description:
Now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Department of Defense (DoD) Cybersecurity Scholarship Program (CySP).


id: 20231113103959
short_title: Internship Opportunity
date: 2023-11-13
url: https://csis.gmu.edu/VA-CNIP/
short_description:
Now accepting&nbsp;applications for the&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, -apple-system, &quot;system-ui&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2024 VA Cyber Navigator Internship (VA-CNIP).</span>&nbsp;


id: 20240118212418
short_title: 5 papers in NDSS
date: 2024-01-18
url: /pages/news.php?id=20240118212418
short_description:
&nbsp;Dr. Kun Sun has 5 papers being accepted by NDSS 2024, which will be held on 26 February–1 March 2024 in San Diego, California.


id: 20240311223336
short_title: Media Coverage
date: 2024-03-11
short_description:
Dr. Albanese was featured in an article by the online magazine <a href="https://www.unitedstatesofitaly.it/2024/02/23/massimiliano-albanese-guida-illuminata-della-sicurezza-informatica-universitaria-negli-usa/" target="_blank">United States of Italy</a> (in Italian)

url:
https://www.unitedstatesofitaly.it/2024/02/23/massimiliano-albanese-guida-illuminata-della-sicurezza-informatica-universitaria-negli-usa/


id: 20240315115142
short_title: Dr. Albanese on IUCRC Panel
date: 2024-02-14
url: https://assistcenter.org/erc-wide-workshop/
short_description:
Dr. Albanese served on an NSF IUCRC Panel at the&nbsp;&nbsp;Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Workshop, held at the NSF Headquarters on February 9, 2024.


id: 20240324115550
short_title: New U.S. Patent Issued
date: 2024-03-24
url: https://maxalbanese.com/research/patents.php
short_description:
Dr. Albanese is issued a new U.S. patent: System and Method for Determining Vulnerability Metrics for Graph-Based Configuration Security (<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">US 11,930,046</span>).


