Sep 11
Carnegie Mellon researchers propose a way to address biases in infrastructure to ensure that future investment doesn’t benefit one group of people at the expense of another.
Aug 18
A team of CyLab researchers have found two forms of "nudging" that can successfully convince people to start using mobile payment, which is more secure than paying with a credit card at a point-of-sale terminal.
Aug 14
Researchers in CyLab are working to create digital “privacy assistants” that can recommend phone app privacy settings to users based on their preferences.
Aug 10
Carnegie Mellon University’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), finished in 2nd place in the “Capture the Flag” competition—widely referred to as “The Olympics of Hacking”—at this year’s DefCon security conference.
Aug 07
Seven Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy research will receive 2020 CyLab Presidential Fellowships.
Jul 30
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory (ARL) have entered into a $3.5 million cooperative agreement that supports machine learning-enabled additive manufacturing.
Jul 29
A team of researchers including CyLab's Bryan Parno published a study about a new tool that mathematically proves that concurrent programs will compute correctly.
Jul 24
Three CyLab papers were presented at this year’s PrivacyCon, focusing on privacy and security nutrition labels, making privacy choices easier, and perceptions of advanced video analytics.
Jul 21
Researchers propose how we can we measure and monitor tire wear with tire wear sensors, increasing safety on the road, saving drivers money, and ultimately, saving lives.
Jun 29
A team of CMU Engineering researchers has shown that autonomous vehicles can be electric—despite the decreased driving range.
Jun 25
In a new study, a team of CyLab researchers explored different locator designs to make IoT devices seem a little less hidden.
Jun 24
A team led by Maysam Chamanzar is developing a novel neural interface made from stainless steel for much safer, high-density neural recording.
Jun 18
In a new study presented at the CHI 2020 conference, CyLab researchers sought to find out how much autonomy people would feel comfortable giving to a personalized privacy assistant.
Jun 16
Kenji Shimada and Erica Martelly team up for the America Makes Fit to Face Challenge, creating one of the top two designs in the competition.
Jun 03
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has named CyLab's Justine Sherry to the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group for a three-year term beginning this summer.
May 27
A team of CyLab researchers have developed a prototype security and privacy “nutrition label” that performed well in user tests. To develop the label, the team consulted with a diverse group of 22 security and privacy experts across industry, government, and academia.
May 26
A recent study authored by CyLab researchers shows that only a minority of people change their passwords after a security breach, and those that do often change them to weaker ones.
May 22
Collaborators have adapted the sophisticated computer graphics technology used in blockbuster films and video games to simulate the movements of soft, limbed robots for the first time.
A group of CyLab faculty and graduate students were just awarded the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence for their contributions from a decade of passwords research.
May 20
Yu-li Wang has been awarded an NIH grant to support his research in cell migration and developing technologies for applications in biomedical devices.
May 18
Researchers are developing affordable fever-screening technologies for buildings and first responders to detect fevers, using an algorithm to detect faces and measure temperature on the forehead.
May 14
Pei Zhang has turned a fleet of taxis into a mobile sensing platform to collect data required to develop applications for a smart city.
Apr 30
People working from home have been using online status indicators to check whether their co-workers are available, but recent CyLab research shows that these indicators lead to some strange behaviors.
Apr 15
Many Americans are entering their fifth of working remotely, which has resulted in new paradigms in their own and their employers’ cybersecurity and privacy. CyLab's Lujo Bauer has been monitoring the situation.
Apr 10
Can machine learning help us to accelerate the antibody discovery process to fight highly infectious viral diseases like COVID-19 and save thousands of lives?
Apr 08
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, CyLab director Lorrie Cranor says there are number issues related to privacy and cybersecurity that people need to be aware of.
Apr 02
As huge swaths of the world have shifted to remote work in response to COVID-19, CyLab's Vyas Sekar thinks that enterprises need to be thinking very critically about the security of their networks – maybe more now than ever.
Mar 26
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, disinformation about the virus is spreading at lightning speeds. CyLab's Kathleen Carley has been monitoring the situation.
Mar 23
Carmel Majidi and Ryan Sullivan have won Carnegie Science Awards from the Carnegie Science Center for their incredible contributions to science.
Mar 06
The Human Element” was the theme of this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, which featured CyLab Director Lorrie Cranor talking about usable security research as a warm-up act for magician duo Penn & Teller.
Mar 03
The College of Engineering is pleased to announce that the College will fund two Moonshot proposals as winners of the Moonshot 2020 competition, as well as one College of Engineering Planning Award.
Mar 02
In a new study, a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers show for the first time how important evolutionary adaptations are in predicting epidemics.
Feb 28
Four College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded CAREER awards by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Feb 26
Over $500K in seed funding has been awarded to 10 different CyLab faculty in six different departments across three colleges at CMU.
Feb 20
Carnegie Mellon CyLab’s Secure and Private IoT Initiative (IoT@CyLab) has announced its second round of funding, which will support ten IoT-related projects for one year.
Feb 19
A team of Carnegie Mellon researchers just launched the IoT Assistant, an app that informs users about what IoT technologies are around them and what data they are collecting. An accompanying cloud-based portal allows IoT owners to register their devices to the infrastructure.
Feb 14
Researchers have created a system that predicts each occupant’s ideal temperature range and changes the room temperature to provide better comfort for all.
Feb 11
For someone suffering from an acute illness or a medical emergency, the nearest healthcare facility can be several hours away in some parts of the world. Researchers are working to bridge this gap in patient care with machine learning.
Feb 03
Sean Qian studied the relationship between Uber and public transportation, proving it can vary by time of day and location.
Jan 08
Two papers on cyber deception authored by CyLab’s Cleotilde Gonzalez and colleagues are being presented at this week’s Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Jan 02
A collaborative project in partnership with CMKL University aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately screen bottles for reuse and recycling.
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