Good news from the RSSLab!
August 19, 2024:
Our papers “Tolerating Compound Threats in Critical Infrastructure Systems” and “Availability Analysis of Network-Attack-Resilient Byzantine Fault Tolerant Systems” are accepted to SRDS 2024.
August 17, 2024:
Our project CIVIC-PG Track B: Community-driven socio-technical infrastructure for data-driven air quality advocacy is funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 15, 2024:
Abhishek Viswanathan successfully defends his PhD thesis in Information Science (Telecommunications concentration) “From sensors to stories: Enabling community-driven actionable data collection for air quality advocacy”. Congratulations Abhishek!
June 20, 2024:
The University of Pittsburgh Cyber Energy Center, funded by the Department of Energy held its industry advisory board kick-off meeting. We are excited to conduct research on the practical integration of intrusion tolerance in energy systems and participate in education efforts as part of the center!
April 27, 2024:
Maher Khan graduates with his PhD in Computer Science, after successfully defending his thesis “Simplifying the deployment of intrusion-tolerant systems by leveraging cloud resources”. Congratulations Maher!
March 25, 2024:
Maher Khan wins the Pitt SCI Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, presenting his work on intrusion tolerance in distributed systems.
July 31, 2023:
The paper “Making Intrusion Tolerance Accessible: A Cloud-Based Hybrid Management Approach to Deploying Resilient Systems” by Maher Khan and Amy Babay is accepted to SRDS 2023.
March 24, 2023:
The art exhibition Embedded by Petra Floyd is installed on the ground floor of the Pitt Information Sciences Building. This exhibit was sponsored by the Year of Data and Society, as part of Abhishek Viswanathan’s project “Enriching Citizen-Science Data Using Context, Feedback, and Community-Oriented Communication”.
January 27, 2023:
Spire 2.0 is released! This release includes two new components: Confidential Spire, and Spire for the Substation. Confidential Spire, led by Maher Khan, is the open-source release of the hybrid architecture described in our DSN 2021 paper. This architecture makes it possible to use cloud sites for resilience without exposing any application data to the cloud provider.
August 29, 2022:
Aren Alyahya and Huzaifah Nadeem have joined the RSSLab as new PhD students!
June 27, 2022:
Benjamin Gilby presents our paper “Data-Centric Analysis of Compound Threats to Critical Infrastructure Control Systems” at the DCDS 2022 workshop co-located with DSN. Check out the teaser video and full presentation!
May 4, 2022:
Our paper “Data-Centric Analysis of Compound Threats to Critical Infrastructure Control Systems” is accepted to the DCDS 2022 workshop co-located with DSN.
October 15, 2021:
Abhishek Viswanathan is awarded an $8,000 Year of Data and Society grant for his project “Enriching Citizen-Science Data Using Context, Feedback, and Community-Oriented Communication”.
June 22, 2021:
Maher Khan presents his paper “Toward Intrusion Tolerance as a Service: Confidentiality in Partially Cloud-Based BFT Systems” at DSN 2021.
May 14, 2021:
Abhishek Viswanathan is selected to participate in the Engaged Scholarship Development Initiative (ESDI) Summer Design Intensive.
April 26, 2021:
The paper “Toward Intrusion Tolerance as a Service: Confidentiality in Partially Cloud-Based BFT Systems” by Maher Khan and Amy Babay is one of three nominees for the Best Paper Award at DSN 2021.