EECS Faculty Research Receives Honorable Mention by NSA

The 10th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, sponsored by NSA, recognized the best foundational cybersecurity paper published in 2021. A work co-authored by EECS assistant professor Alex Bardas, his former student Alla Daffalla (now a Ph.D. student at Cornell) and researchers from George Washington University and the University of Washington received honorable mention. Their work, "Defensive Technology Use by Political Activists during the Sudanese Revolution," investigates the needs, practices, risks, and challenges of activists during the Sudanese revolution in 2018– 2019.

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