{"286481":{"#nid":"286481","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCS Talk: Amir Houmansadr, University of Texas at Austin","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESpeaker: \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAmir Houmansadr, University of Texas at Austin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETitle:\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Cyberspace Battle for Information: \u0026nbsp;Combating Internet Censorship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Internet has become ubiquitous, bringing many benefits to people across the globe.\u0026nbsp; Unfortunately, Internet users face threats to their security and privacy: repressive regimes deprive them of freedom of speech and open access to information, governments and corporations monitor their online behavior, advertisers collect and sell their private data, and cybercriminals hurt them financially through security breaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMy research aims to make Internet communications more secure and privacy-preserving.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I will focus on the design, implementation, and analysis of tools that help users bypass Internet censorship.\u0026nbsp; I will discuss the major challenges in building robust censorship circumvention tools, introduce two novel classes of systems that we have developed to overcome these challenges, and conclude with several directions for future research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAmir Houmansadr is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2012. Amir\u2019s research revolves around various network security and privacy problems, including Internet censorship circumvention, network traffic analysis, and anonymous communications. He has received several awards for his research, including the Best Practical Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security \u0026amp; Privacy (Oakland) 2013. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Cyberspace Battle for Information:  Combating Internet Censorship"}],"uid":"27734","created_gmt":"2014-03-27 13:55:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:07:22","author":"Antonette Benford","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-04-15T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-04-15T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-04-15T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-04-15 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-04-15 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-04-15 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"286401":{"id":"286401","type":"image","title":"Amir Houmansadr, University of Texas at Austin","body":null,"created":"1449244237","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:37","changed":"1475894981","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:41","alt":"Amir Houmansadr, University of Texas at Austin","file":{"fid":"199093","name":"amir_houmansadr.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/amir_houmansadr_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/amir_houmansadr_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1060456,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/amir_houmansadr_0.jpg?itok=F0wKk-6Z"}}},"media_ids":["286401"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167907","name":"SCS Faculty Recruit Talk"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWenke Lee @ (404) 385-2879 \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wenke@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewenke@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}