News

December 2021

Our paper, "Vehicle-to-Nothing? Securing C-V2X Against Protocol-Aware DoS Attacks," was accepted to appear in the IEEE INFOCOM 2022 conference. Congratulations Geoff!

August 2021

Geoff Twardokus is now a PhD student in WISP lab after successfully defending his Master's thesis.

June 2021

Our 3rd US patent application "A Method for Exploiting Preamble Waveforms to Support Device and Network Functionalities in Wireless Systems" was granted by USPTO.

May 2021

Two papers, one on connected vehicles security and one on preamble embedding in MIMO, accepted to appear in ACM WiSec'21 conference (congrats to Sid!) and IEEE TMC, respectively.

February 2021

Two papers on connected vehicles security accepted to appear in IEEE ICC'21 and IEEE CNERT'21 workshop (in conjucation with IEEE INFOCOM). Congratulations to Geoff!

December 2020

Our group moved into our new research lab (Faraday lab) within Global Cybersecurity Institute.

October 2020

Our novel V2Verifier testbed is receiving media coverage! Watch our interview with WROC-TV .

August 2020

Siddharth Dongre joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome Sid!

May 2020

Geoff Twardokus joined the team as a summer research co-op. Welcome Geoff!

December 2019

Our paper "Expanding the Role of Preambles to Support User-defined Functionality in MIMO-based WLANs" accepted to appear in IEEE INFOCOM 2020 conference.

October 2019

Our second patent application "Systems and Methods for Securing Wireless Communications" was granted by USPTO.

August 2019

Naureen Hoque joined the team as a PhD student. Welcome Naureen!

February 9, 2024

Researchers work to benefit society

RIT's researchers are improving healthcare for marginalized populations, explaining mysteries of the universe, battling anemia, and making autonomous driving systems more secure. Meet four of them.
February 20, 2023

Hanif Rahbari earns NSF CAREER Award to enhance connected vehicle security

Hanif Rahbari, an assistant professor of computing security, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to make connected vehicles more reliable and secure against quantum attacks.
November 29, 2022

How can Americans show solidarity with Iranian protestors?

WXXI’s “Connections” program features Hanif Rahbari, assistant professor in the Department of Computing Security.
July 26, 2022

Research team develops workforce training that integrates virtual reality, gamification

More than 1,000 openings in the Finger Lakes region for skilled machinists are projected in the coming years. Local academic researchers and industry partners are developing new training options to fill the expected gaps—integrating gaming and virtual reality to appeal to a younger generation of manufacturing professionals.