KU SoS Lablet Quarterly Executive Summary - January 2019
A. Fundamental Research
The University of Kansas Lablet continued work on four projects on resliency, IoT and cloud privacy, preventing side channel communication, and developing semantics and infrastructure for trust. Specifically, we are: (i) developing a method to enable cloud-assisted, privacy-preserving machine learning classification over encrypted data for IoT devices; (ii) reducing micro-architectural side-channels by introducing new OS abstractions while minimally modifying micro-architecture and OS; (iii) developing an epistemology and ontology for framing resilience; and (iv) formalizing the remot attestation and defining sufficiency and soundness. As outlined in the full report for each project we are beginning to see publications from our research and are making progress in all areas. This quarter we also began preparation for adding Search Native Binary Execution to our collection of projects this fall.
B. Community Engagement(s)
We held our 2018 Science of Security Workshop on Securing the Internet of Things on October 2 on KU’s Edwards Campus in Kansas City. Approximately 130 people attended the 1-day event, largely from the Kansas City area. This exceeded our expectations and we are already planning next year’s event.
We heard 3 keynote presentations, discussion lead by a panel of advisory board members, and three current Lablet PIs. Our keynotes were presented by Brigadier General Jennifer Buckner Army G-3/5/7 Director of Cyber, Aaron Weissenfluh, CISO Cboe Global Markets, and Brian McClendon, co-inventor of Google Earth, former VP of Research at Google and at Uber. Our panel session included several members of our advisory board who led a discussion of security impacts surrounding the internet of things. Finally, we held a competitive poster session with 22 participants from KU and Kansas State University. More information on the workshop can be found at [KU to host conference on cybersecurity for the ‘Internet of Things’ | School of Engineering](https://engr.ku.edu/cherry-picked-ku-host-conference-cybersecurity-%E2%80%98internet-things%E2%80%99)
We are preparing for an international conference at KU in support of our resilence project to be held during Q2 2019. Computational Methods and the Future of Science (https://cps-vo.org/group/CMFS) will feature a keynote and technical presentations focusing on the intersection of science and computation. Our resilience work will feature prominently in the program.
KU will host the Summer 2019 Lablet PI meeting and HotSoS 2020.
C. Educational Advances
We have no educational advances specific to this effort to report this quarter.