Mid-semester Updates
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I usually save updates for the end of the semester. However, I am in the happy position of having several bits of good news to report:
- Along with my co-PI Qun Li, my lab has been awarded a grant from Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Coastal Virginia (COVA CCI) ($80,000), to study the application of trusted hardware to agentic AI. Special thanks to Dr. Li for his excellent mentorship! A poster showing some preliminary results will be presented at the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Symposium next week by my undergraduate researcher Aaron Killingbeck.
- I have been awarded a CURE grant from ODU ($2,000) to develop a course, tentatively titled “Success and Failure in Technological Enterprise”. This research-based course will probably be offered in Spring 2027 and annually thereafter, so keep an eye out! I am also actively looking for guest lecturers for this course.
- I recently returned to the Tokyo Institute of Technology to give a talk “Understanding FHE Performance in the Cloud Era” to the Trustworthy Data Science and AI Lab (who were wonderful hosts, as always).
- I also returned to the Albion College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (also great hosts) to give a talk “Improving Private Bioinformatics with Homomorphic Encryption”.
- On the teaching side: I am told that my LaTeX homework templates used in my course CS 463 (Cryptography for Cybersecurity) are being used in at least one other course.
I will probably (hopefully) have at least a few more things to announce later this semester.