ECE Distinguished Seminar: Guevara Noubir
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:30 p.m.
Guevara Noubir
Professor
Executive Director of Cybersecurity Programs
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Northeastern University
"Security and Privacy in Wireless Communications Systems"
ECE 530 | Zoom link
Abstract
Wireless communications systems are today ubiquitous and critical to a variety of applications. This raises issues both about security and privacy, but also in terms of co-existence of technologies and sharing spectrum. In this talk, I will review some design and implementation vulnerabilities in several wireless systems such as 3GPP 5G, Bluetooth, and avionics ILS, and ACARS. I will also discuss defense mechanisms including how machine learning can enable new mechanisms for achieving better spectrum sharing and anti-jamming.
Bio
Guevara Noubir is a professor at Northeastern University within the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and is currently serving as the executive director of Cybersecurity Programs and the PI of Northeastern University’s NSA/DHS designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005, Google Faculty Research Award on Privacy in 2016, Northeastern University Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award 2018, best paper awards at ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) 2011 and 2018 and the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security best paper in 2016. Dr. Noubir led Northeastern University winning teams in the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) in 2017, 2018 and finalist in 2019. He also led Northeastern’s winning team in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge collaborative scenario in 2013. Dr. Noubir chaired the technical program committee of several security conferences including the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) and IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security. He served on the editorial boards of ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks and IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security. His research has been funded by BAE Systems, ARPA, Draper Labs, Microsoft Research, ONR, NSA, NSF and Raytheon. Dr. Noubir holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and an MS in CS (diplôme d’ingénieur) from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), France. He held research and visiting positions at CSEM SA, EPFL, Eurecom, MIT and UNL. He is a co-founder of Novowi a startup focussing on wireless and mobile systems security.