Florida International University, Miami
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Summary of Progress:

The Florida International University School of Computing and Information Science (FIU SCIS) and its partner, Louisiana State University (LSU), recruited six Faculty/Student Scholar pairs to participate in an NSF-funded project, "Multi University Research and Training in Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures."

The project's selected Faculty/Student Scholar pairs participate in a series of development activities that include summer workshops, national lab/research center visits, and academic year mini-grants. These activities are meant to introduce the participating pairs to cutting-edge research topics in the protection of mission-critical information infrastructures, including secure, survivable, and adaptable network architectures, wide-area networked threat analysis, processing of complex events and reacting to them, design and analysis of secure distributed data-mining techniques for recognizing unusual spatio-temporal readings from a wealth of sensor data, sensor net based bio-chemical detection technologies, design and analysis of data aggregation and compact feature representation for obtaining the required information with low-latency and low-energy usage in sensor networks, and intrusion and anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks as well as design and analysis of energy-efficient robust information extraction mechanisms for these large-scale networks.

In collaboration with FIU and LSU research centers, the Faculty/Student Scholar pairs are interacting with distinguished scholars from national laboratories and homeland security laboratories. The project's coordinated efforts in security research and training will provide experience in antiterrorism, cybercrime, and counter-terrorism techniques as well as invaluable information on projects initiated by both state and federal law enforcement agencies. Through the exploration of open scientific problems, and the development of training and pedagogical materials that use model-based approaches to vulnerability analysis, this project will prepare its participants to transfer their new knowledge to classroom instruction and research programs at their home institutions.

The 2013 Workshop, held at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA includes:

• 2 week training experience: June 24th – July 5th, 2013
• Research projects and lectures guided by distinguished faculty from FIU & LSU
• LSU LOCATION: Patrick F. Taylor Hall Room 3419 (Chevron Conference Room). Click here for directions.

The agenda for the 2013 Workshop in Critical Information Infrastructure Protection:

General Arrangements:

• Each day starts at 8:30 a.m. – Pastries and coffee will be provided
• Lunch (on your own) from Noon – 1:30 p.m.
• One Coffee Break (morning)
• June 29th and June 30th,(Saturday and Sunday) Open Day, being used for Sightseeing, Free Activities, etc.
• July 4th (Thursday) Open Day (National Holiday), being used for Sightseeing, Free Activities, etc.

Daily General Schedule:

• Day 1 (Monday): Introduction and Overview of the Entire Workshop; Impact of Science in the 21st Century; Universal Steiner Trees
• Day 2: Talks from LSU and SUBR University
• Day 3: The Multicore Revolution; Networking and Unsplittable Congestion Games
• Day 4: Photocatalytic Pavements and Air Purification; Program Performance Analysis
• Day 5: The KASER Key to Computational Intelligence; Mini Grant Proposals
• Saturday-Sunday: Open Day, Sightseeing, Free Activities, etc
• Day 6: Coordinating Federal R&D In It: Cybersecurity and Privacy; Network and Application Security; Intellectual Property and Working with Industry
• Day 7: Text Mining for Automatic Ontology Extraction from Domain Texts; Analyzing Computational Models
• Day 8 (Wednesday): The Essential Runtime System Infrastructure for Exascale Computing
• Thursday (July 4th): Open Day, Sightseeing, Free Activities, etc
• Day 9: Industry Connections; Review of Minigrants; Closing Presentations

Please see the full agenda for additional details. The workshop's brochure contains abstracts and biographies.

Follow-on Mini-grants will allow faculty/student pairs to perform research during the academic year and to attend conferences to present their research results.

Invited Speakers for 2013:

• Dr. Yujian Fu, Alabama A & M University
• Mr. Donte McDaniel, Alabama A & M University
• Mr. Eric Reinsmidt, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• Dr. Li Yang, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• Dr. Jason Black, Florida A&M University
• Ms. Olivia Wilson, Florida A&M University
• Dr. Konstanin Busch, Louisiana State University
• Dr. R Vaidyanathan
• Dr. Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
• Dr. Rajgopal Kannan, Louisiana State University
• Dr. Marwa Hassan, Louisiana State University
• Dr. Stuart Rubin, SPAWAR
• Dr. Mark Luker, NITRD
• Dr. Peter Kelleher, Louisiana State University
• Dr. Jeffrey Bradshaw, IHMC
• Dr. Niranjan Suri, IHMC
• Dr. Michael Mislove, Tulane University
• Dr. Thomas Sterling, Indiana University
• Dr. James Digby, Rockstart
• Mr. Ryan Cooney, Louisiana State Univerity

For further information, please contact:

• Dr. S. Sitharama Iyengar (Principal Investigator for the NSF award)
  Director and Ryder Professor of Computer Science
  Florida International University
  iyengar@cis.fiu.edu; (305) 348-3947
• Dr. Supratik Mukhopadhyay (Principal Investigator of the LSU Subcontract)
  Assistant Professor of Computer Science
  Louisiana State University
  supratik@csc.lsu.edu, (225) 578-1496
• Dr. Hsiao-Chun Wu
  Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Louisiana State University
  wu@ece.lsu.edu, (225) 578-5530
• Dr. Su-Seng Pang
  Associate Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives
  Jack Holmes Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
  Louisiana State University
  mepang@me.lsu.edu, (225) 578-5892

This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number DUE-1202690. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.