Computer Science Labs & Equipment

UCCS secured a $1.25M AFOSR equipment grant to furnish a data center quality server room with three racks of blade servers and storage area networks and an innovation security lab to foster development of educational and research programs in Cyber Security, Physical Security, and Homeland Security. They are located in the 150,000 square feet Osborne Science and Engineering Building. The innovation security server room hosts three racks of blade servers with storage area network and 40 terabytes of storage. 

Uses:

• the design and developed new secure network systems and protocols
• the simulation or emulation of large scale networks for evaluating cyber attack and defense techniques
• the configuration of networked of virtual machines/infrastructures for conducting capture the flag exercises and IA training workshops
• the study of disaster recovery and network system restoration
• performing multi-tier server cluster,QoS, Internet network research
• conducting biometric and physical security research

The 620 square feet innovation security lab is equipped with high end workstation, tablet/laptop PCs, and wireless/sensor network equipment and development kits. It has Audio/Video connection to the innovation lab, the large conference room and the teleconference room of the National Institute of Science, Space, and Security Centers (NISSSC) with high speed internet connection to Internet for conducting cyber or homeland security exercises.

Research Interests 

• Compiler construction --- Program analysis and optimization for high-performance computing
• Programming languages --- High-level specification of domain-specific properties and program transformation
• Software engineering --- Automated code generation; systematic error-discovery and verification of software

More Information:

To learn more, visit Dr. Qing Yi's website.

About Media Integration and Convergence Lab - MICL

With new interactions emerges new ways of thinking --- MCIL is about communication using all forms of media and technology. Emphasis is to create tools supporting human interaction leading to emergence of new ways and forms.  Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary and seamless blending of ideas creating products is the focus to positively impact all of society.

More Information:

To learn more, visit the LINC lab website.

This is the main web page of Cybersecurity Research Lab headed by Dr. Edward Chow. Currently we have the following projects at different stages: 

• Enhance Security of Blockchain Systems
• Right Place Right Route Data Delivery(R2D2) project
• Proximity Based Encryption (PBE) sponsored by Northrop Grumman
• Software Defined Network Based TOR Network (SOR). Abdelhamid Elgzil
• Unified homeland security strategies through game theory. Rick White and Aaron Burkhart
• Cyber Resilience
• SCOLD: DDoS attacks and defenses
• SCORES (Smart Cloud Optimal Resource Selection)
• Tools and Techniques for Regulation Conformance
• Cyber Physical System Security. Jarret Rush.
• Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) Defense. Rodney Lykins.
• Trusted system and their application to security and Privacy in Cloud and Social Networks.
• Mobile Platform Vulnerability Analysis. Ehab Ashary, Abdulaziz Alzubaidi
• IDE for Secure Programming (possibly a new secure programming language?). Abdullah Sheneamer.
• Threats Theory and Their Applications. Sarah Pramanik, Abdelahmid Elgzil
• Privacy issues in distributed sign translation systems. Michael Mennozzi.
• Privacy by Design for Mobile Healthcare Applications. Arij Alfadi.