Assistant Professor Joe Izraelevitz of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering will use a prestigious NSF CAREER to develop extensions to programming languages that would allow programmers to explicitly control where data is stored.
With the $569,000, five-year grant from the NSF, he plans to explore how censorship can be fought from within networks using passive measurement and circumvention tools at Internet service providers (ISPs).
In her computer engineering lab, Assistant Professor Tamara Silbergleit Lehman and her team are exploring ways to make computing devices more secure, while also maintaining performance.