News Category: PhD Academics
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General News at Northeastern
CCIS & CAMD Alumni behind former IDEA venture receive $19M to take business to next level
- January 6, 2017
Anderson, AMD’12, and his business partner Yin Wang, PhD’11, launched the startup in 2011 and began building the brand in 2013. Its 250 iPhone and Android apps—ranging from the Anime […] -
GeneralCCIS PhD Student and Professor Discover Snooping in Dark Web
- December 2, 2016
By Mackenzie Nichols In the vast space of the Internet, there exists another dimension called the dark web. Amirali Sanatinia is one researcher who works with his PhD advisor, Professor Guevara […] -
GeneralResearchers run largest known transparent checkpointing process
- November 23, 2016
A team of researchers led by Jiajun Cao, a PhD candidate in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University, recently used Distributed Multi-Threaded CheckPointing (DMTCP) software in what appears to be the largest known instance of transparent checkpointing. -
General boingboingCCIS researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites
- July 8, 2016
CCIS Professor Guevara Noubir and CCIS PhD Student Amirali Sanatinia have announced a paper (to be delivered at this summer's Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas) that reveals over 100 spying Tor nodes that were shown to be targeting hidden services. -
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Building a better computer bug finder
- July 7, 2016
A paper detailing the research was presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and was published in the conference proceedings. Technical staff members of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory led the technical research: Patrick Hulin, Tim Leek, Frederick Ulrich, and Ryan Whelan. Collaborators from Northeastern University are Engin Kirda, professor of computer and information science; Wil Robertson, assistant professor of computer and information science; and doctoral student Andrea Mambretti -
GeneralCommunity service award highlights student’s commitment to tutoring, mentorship
- June 30, 2016
By Shandana Mufti Working toward a PhD is time-consuming: there’s research to be done, grants to be secured and papers to write. But Ben Greenman, who hopes to earn his […] -
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GeneralInternships Help Define Doctoral Research
- May 31, 2016
By Shandana Mufti The internet is home to a staggering amount of information, much of which is accessible through web searches. Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, a PhD candidate in Computer Science, specializing […] -
General News at NortheasternCCIS dean’s own path spurs drive to increase student opportunities
- May 17, 2016
Carla Brodley ardently believes every college student should give computer science a try—whether that means diving in with a major or dipping in by taking an elective. “It’s a basic […]
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