Note: This area is not associated with research occurring at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. It is strictly an academic area associated with the MSIT program.
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Associated Faculty
AT&T Foundation Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Science and Director of the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center
Primary Research Interests
- Formal Methods, Verification, and Synthesis
- Trusted Computing
- System-Level Design Languages and Semantics
- Specification Languages
Primary Research Interests
- Security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
- Social network privacy
- Network security
- Secure data sharing and publishing
Primary Research Interests
- Information security and privacy, database security
- Information retrieval, Web and online social networks
- Security and privacy issues in smart grid systems
- XML and conventional database systems, data management
Professor, Associate Chair, Director of IT Graduate Programs
Primary Research Interests
- Software architecture
- Formal methods in software engineering
- Cybersecurity and information assurance
- Secure software engineering
- Software process and project management
- Software engineering education
Program Objectives
The focus area in information security and assurance provides technical knowledge and practical skills in the science and methodologies for identifying important information assets, securing and protecting such assets, and assuring their availability for authorized users.
Core Coursework (MS)
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- EECS 780 Communication Networks
- Comprehensive in-depth coverage to communication networks with emphasis on the Internet and the PSTN (wired and wireless, and IoT-Internet of Things). Extensive coverage of protocols and algorithms will be presented at all levels, including: social networking, overlay networks, client/server and peer-to-peer applications; session control; transport protocols, the end-to-end arguments and end-to-end congestion control; network architecture, forwarding, routing, signaling, addressing, and traffic management, programmable and software-defined networks (SDN); quality of service, queuing and multimedia applications; LAN architecture, link protocols, access networks and MAC algorithms; physical media characteristics and coding; network security and information assurance; network management. (Same as IT 780.) Prerequisite: EECS 563 or equivalent or permission of instructor. LEC.
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- EMGT 806 Finance for Engineers
- An introduction to finance in technology-based organizations. Topics include financial statements analysis, valuation of future cash flows, capital budgeting, risk and return, capital structure, and working capital management. LEC.
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- EMGT 821 Strategic Analysis of Technology Projects
- Strategic assessment of developmental projects, focusing on the proposed product or service, the organization, project details, and the environment. Topics include application of financial figures of merit, feasibility of competing projects, decisions under uncertainty, risk vs return, and forecasting. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.S. Engineering Management program or consent of instructor, EMGT 806, a course in applied statistics. LEC.
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Elective Coursework (MS)
- EECS 711 Security Management and Audit
- Administration and management of security of information systems and networks, intrusion detection systems, vulnerability analysis, anomaly detection, computer forensics, auditing and data management, risk management, contingency planning and incident handling, security planning, e-business and commerce security, privacy, traceability and cyber-evidence, human factors and usability issues, policy, legal issues in computer security. (Same as IT 711.) Prerequisite: Graduate standing in EECS, or permission of the instructor. LEC.
The class is not offered for the Fall 2019 semester.
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- EECS 882 Mobile Wireless Networking
- Comprehensive coverage of the disciplines of mobile and wireless networking, with an emphasis on architecture and protocols. Topics include cellular telephony, MAC algorithms, wireless PANs, LANs, MANs, and WANs; wireless and mobile Internet; mobile ad hoc networking; mobility management, sensor networks; satellite networks; and ubiquitous computing. Prerequisite: EECS 563 or EECS 780, or permission of the instructor. LEC.
The class is not offered for the Fall 2019 semester.
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- EECS 767 Information Retrieval
- This class introduces algorithms and applications for retrieving information from large document repositories, including the Web. Topics span from classic information retrieval methods for text documents and databases, to recent developments in Web search, including: text algorithms, indexing, probabilistic modeling, performance evaluation, web structures, link analysis, multimedia information retrieval, social network analysis. Prerequisite: EECS 647 or permission of instructor. LEC.
The class is not offered for the Fall 2019 semester.
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