Cybersecurity Center

The importance of designing methods to protect data in the modern world cannot be overstated. The urgency of this need is reflected in mainstream media - newspapers and websites are full of news about critical user information, be it credit card numbers, medical data, or social security information, being compromised and used illegitimately. Juxtaposed with the need of securing digital information, is the equally urgent need of enabling and assisting the ”Big Data" revolution. We have already begun to glimpse the sheer power of massive-scale data analysis, with applications ranging from cloud computing to advertising to social science studies to smart meters and smart cities and so on.Can the divide between utility and security be bridged? Through our centre, we aim to construct systems which achieve strong mathematical security that users can trust, while supporting advanced functionalities that enable and assist cloud computing.The authors of this proposal, together with their collaborators, have a strong track record of making high impact, globally visible contributions in designing such systems via novel scientific methods that synthesize ideas from cryptography, distributed systems, algorithms and cybersecurity at large. ; ;