Professor Bansal is leading a research project, recently funded by the NSF, to develop new computational methods for studying Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) in microbes. HGT is known to be one of the most important drivers of microbial evolution and an improved understanding of this evolutionary process is critical to understanding how microbes evolve, adapt, […]

We would like to thank Mr. Nicholas Wagner once again for his generous contribution to The Cigna Graduate Assistant Fund for Computer Sciences to establish graduate assistantships. Graduate assistants divide their full-time efforts between study and assistantship responsibilities. The support shown by Nicholas enables our students to become leaders, problem solvers, and innovators who will […]

Title: Program Obfuscation:  A Brave New World Abstract: Program obfuscation is the art of writing programs in a way that renders the code unintelligible even to parties that can run it. Long the exclusive domain of heuristics and “programming tricks,” program obfuscation has recently taken the cryptographic community by storm. Indeed, the concept was shown […]

Daniel Conroy, Synchrony Financial CISO, discusses the shortage of cybersecurity professionals, proposes some steps for mitigating the problem, and mentions the UConn/Synchrony partnership of Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity in this article : How to Unlock Cybersecurity Talent

The University of Connecticut’s Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation recently hosted CyberSEED 2016. Speakers from around the country shared perspectives on cybersecurity issues and the importance of strengthening online defenses in vital areas.  Complete article is here.

We are delighted to announce that UConn, with the investment of $2.2 million over the next five years from Synchrony Financial, is establishing the Synchrony Financial Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity.  Through its partnership with UConn, Synchrony Financial will provide an endowment for a Synchrony Financial Chair in Cybersecurity to advance education and research in […]

Future of Software Panel at the First Northeast JavaScript Conference, Stamford, CT 2016-09-15. Panelists: Jeff Fox, Ed Faulkner, Phil Bradford, Prabal Ghosh, Isaac Sacolick We were given this sentence a few days in advance: “Wired magazine: the future software developers won’t need ‘code’ per se.” Phillip G. Bradford’s Discussion Position The demand for coding or […]

Emerging Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, IoT and Beyond, October 10-11, 2016, at UConn Hosted by the Comcast Center of Excellence for Security Innovation at the University of Connecticut (CSI), CyberSEED brings together top information security professionals and business leaders to discuss emerging cybersecurity trends and formulate best strategies for tackling current and future threats. In […]