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Dr. Alexander Titus Appointed to National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology

Dr. Alexander Titus

Dr. Alexander Titus, an ICSI PI working on biotechnology and security, was appointed to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology on March 17, 2022.

ICSI Researchers Receive Emilio Aced Research and Personal Data Protection Award

Paper: 50 Ways to Leak Your DataA team of researchers from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), UC Berkeley, IMDEA, AppCensus, and University of Calgary received the Emilio Aced Research and Personal Data Protection Award from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) for their 2019 paper "50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps' Circumvention of the Android Permissions System". That paper also received the distinguished paper award at Usenix Security 2019.

New ICSI Vice President, Head of Networking and Security Research

Michael Mahoney, ICSI Vice PresidentAt the end of 2021, Prof. Vern Paxon made the big move to take early retirement from the UC Berkeley faculty and stepped down as ICSI Vice President and Director of the Networking Research Group in order to devote his full time to Corelight, the startup he, Dr. Robin Sommers, and colleagues spun out of ICSI several years ago. Prof. Mark Allman has been selected as the new director of ICSI's Networking Research group. Prof. Michael Mahoney is ICSI's new Vice President.

 

Congratulations to Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, Foreign Member to the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic

Wolfgang Wahlster Czech Academy of EngineeringProfessor Wolfgang Wahlster, ICSI Executive Committee and Board Member, has been honored with selection as a foreign member to the prestigious Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic. "To be elected as a foreign member of such an important academy, is a great honour and a privilege," said Wahlster.

2i2c and ICSI: A New Stage on Our Journey

A New Stage on Our Journey

One of the most exciting parts of our work at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is how we empower other organizations to lead the way in opening science and research to the broader world. Specifically, over the past year, our team at ICSI has been honored to serve as the host organization and fiscal partner for a startup non-profit organization called The International Interactive Computing Collaboration or, more creatively, 2i2c.

Nelson Morgan and Herve Bourlard to Receive 2022 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award

Nelson Morgan and Herve Bourlard 2022 James L. Flanagan Award

The Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) Program Announces Fourth Wireless Research Platform in Central Iowa to Drive Innovation in Rural Broadband Connectivity

Iowa State University will lead development of the new testbed with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a consortium of industry partners, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

ICSI researchers, led by Dr. Michael Luby, will be participating in the PAWR Program known as ARA: Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities.

Dr. Serge Egelman Testifies at Hearing for Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security

Dr. Serge EgelmanOn May 18, 2021 at 10:00 am, the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security held a hearing, “Protecting Kids Online: Internet Privacy and Manipulative Marketing”. ICSI’s Director of Usable Privacy and Security, Dr. Serge Egelman, testified at the hearing along with Professor Angela Campbell and Baroness Beeban Kidron.

Envisioning safer cities with AI

Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. But how about civil engineering and city planning? How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built environments?

A team of researchers from the NSF NHERI SimCenter, a computational modeling and simulation center for the natural hazards engineering community based at the University of California, Berkeley, with researchers from UC Berkeley, the International Computer Science Institute, Stanford, and UCLA, have developed a suite of tools called BRAILS -- Building Recognition using AI at Large-Scale -- that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings in a city and even detect the risks that a city's structures would face in an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami.

Serge Egelman Testifies at Senate Hearing on Children's Online Privacy

Dr. Serge Egelman testifying at Senate hearing on child privacyOn May 18, 2021, Dr. Serge Egelman, Director of Usable Security and Privacy research at ICSI, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security at a hearing titled “Protecting Kids Online: Internet Privacy and Manipulative Marketing”.

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