March 11, 2026
ECE doctoral students Matthew Donnelly, Wen Liang, and Meiyue Zhang, with Distinguished Professor Lixin Gao and Associate Professor Guangyu Xu, reported a reconfigurable silicon photodiode that works as a physical unclonable function for IoT... more
February 20, 2026
Associate Professor Fatima Anwar received a three-year NSF award to build FLTest, a testbed for evaluating the privacy and robustness of federated learning systems. UMass Amherst's share is $367k as part of a $1.1 million collaboration with Virginia... more
January 14, 2026
The best cybersecurity students in the world came to Rochester Institute of Technology to battle in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals Jan. 9-11. The event wrapped up the largest offense-based cybersecurity... more
November 07, 2025
The UMass Cybersecurity Club Competition Team defended their champion position this year at CPTC (Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition) New England regionals in New Haven, Connecticut, and placed FIRST IN REGIONALS for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW... more
October 14, 2025
Professor Wayne Burleson is a co-PI on a five-year, $3.5 million NSF award to protect users of neural and medical implants from cyber-physical attacks, including “brain-jacking.” The project, led by Northeastern University, brings together UMass... more
October 01, 2025
Save the Date
The Cybersecurity Institute will hold its third annual hackathon on October 24, 2025.
The Cybersecurity Institute will hold a hackathon in LGRC A112. The event will bring together CICS graduate students, faculty, and cybersecurity... more
August 06, 2025
RescueBox is an open-source, free tool available to all. It is designed to give investigators access to free, machine learning tools that are useful in investigations of child exploitation. We would greatly appreciate your feedback!
By signing up... more
July 14, 2025
Professor Amir Houmansadr is a coauthor of “How the Great Firewall of China Detects and Blocks Fully Encrypted Traffic,” named runner-up for the 2025 Caspar Bowden PET Award at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. The USENIX Security 2023... more
April 15, 2025
Assistant Professors Donghyun Kim and Eugene Bagdasarian started an initiative for Western Mass high school students in STEM. Pioneer Leaders in AI and Robotics (PLAIR) is an outreach program initiated by faculties from the Manning College of... more
April 15, 2025
Euguene Bagdasarian and Shlomo Zilberstein received a new 500k grant from Schmidt Sciences:
