Keynote Speech of WiSP'08
Cyber Security: An Obtainable Goal?
Dr. David H.C. Du
National Science Foundation CISE/CNS
and
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Abstract
With the rapid technology advancement and cost reduction, we have built an enormous large Internet. Many critical applications require information to be delivered over Internet. Many small devices like sensors are gradually deployed over Internet. These devices are designed to improve our daily life by monitoring our environment, collecting critical data, and executing special instructions. These devices have gradually become an essential part of our future Internet and most of them are connected to Internet via wireless technology. Unprecedented amount of data are collected by these devices. Security and privacy become great concern for this new world. To meet this challenge, Cyber Trust Program at National Science Foundation has adjusted its research funding directions. We will discuss the current and past research directions in cyber security. What progress has being made? What are missing? Why is it so hard to make cyber space secure? Is it possible that we can accomplish our goal to make cyber space secure?
Brief Biography
Dr. David Du is currently a Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He is also a Program Director (IPA) at National Science Foundation CISE/CNS Division since March 2006. At NSF, he is responsible for NeTS (networking research cluster) NOSS (Networks of Sensor Systems) Program and works with two other colleagues, Karl Levitt and Ralph Wachter, on Cyber Trust Program. Dr. Du received a Ph.D. degree from University of Washington (Seattle) in 1981. He joined University of Minnesota as a faculty since 1981.
Dr. Du has a wide range of research expertise including multimedia computing, mass storage systems, high-speed networking, sensor networks, cyber security, high-performance file systems and I/O, database design, and CAD for VLSI circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 195 technical papers including 95 referred journal publications in these research areas. He has graduated 48 Ph.D. and 80 M.S. students in the last 25 years. His research in multimedia computing and storage systems include video-on-demand server architecture, video and audio synchronization techniques, multimedia storage systems, intelligent storage devices and future storage systems. His research in CAD includes physical layout, timing verification and delay fault testing for high-speed circuits. His research in high-speed networking includes heterogeneous high-performance computing over high-speed networks, quality of service, parallel data archive for high-performance computing, optical networks and sensor networks.
Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow (since 1998) and a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. He is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of several international journals. He has also served as Conference Chair and Program Committee Chair for several major conferences in multimedia, networking, database and security areas. He has had research grants from many federal funding agencies including NSF, DARPA, ONR, and DOE. He has a strong tie with industrial research and has collaborated with a number of companies including IBM, Intel, Cisco, Symantec, Seagate, Sun Micro, etc.