SES sent undergraduate students to two prestigious collegiate cybersecurity competitions: the Northeast Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and the 2018 Penn State Cybersecurity Competition, which is sponsored by the National Security Agency. The NECCDC team succeeded in a competition designed to make them fail. The Penn State team won.
By 2021, losses from cybersecurity breaches could exceed six trillion dollars. These Stevens students want to make sure none of those dollars come out of your pocket--and they created a solution for their senior design project.
Major data breaches, hacks and identity thefts have become disturbingly commonplace. As the threat continues to escalate, Stevens is helping lead a global effort to anticipate and defend against the next waves of cybercrime.
"Online has been a really good experience for me. I like the flexibility because I work full-time. I save travel time. Stevens online platform makes my time very efficient," says online computer science master's student Mike Scully.
Stevens computer security, computer vision and programming languages program areas are ranked highly by CSRankings.org. CSRankings uses a metrics-based system to weigh departments by their presence at the most prestigious publication venues, which is a more rigorous metric than most ranking systems.
"I would not be here if it weren't for my professors at Stevens, and I owe them a lot! They were always available to give advice and guidance, not only in my research, but also in my career," says computer science alumnus Walter Krawec.
Four computer science faculty members received grants from the National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research totaling more than $3,200,000: David Naumann, Georgios Portokalidis, Nikos Triandopoulos and Eric Koskinen.
Professor Susanne Wetzel is a program director for the National Science Foundation’s SaTC (Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace) program.
Five computer science faculty members have received NSF CAREER Awards: Giuseppe Ateniese, Adriana Compagnoni, Samantha Kleinberg, Antonio Nicolosi and Wendy Wang.
CS faculty member Samantha Kleinberg received the Provost’s Early Career Award for Research Excellence in 2017.
Through Collaboration, Impact
The Department of Computer Science is home to several venerable research centers and laboratories with grants from prominent funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Office of Naval Research (ONR).
The Center for the Advancement of Secure Systems and Information Assurance (CASSIA) performs research in information assurance and cybersecurity.
Conducts studies of complex biological systems where large numbers of diverse and multifunctional elements interact in selective ways.
The Database and Information Management Lab (DbLab) focuses on developing infrastructures and data management systems for big data.
Two labs that pioneer new technologies for secure systems; sensor fusion, computer vision and graphics.
The HAIL lab aims to improve human health through the development of artificial intelligence methods.