{"621228":{"#nid":"621228","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cybersecurity Experts Receive Faculty Promotions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo faculty members in the School of Computer Science (SCS) have been promoted.\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E was granted tenure as an associate professor, and Associate Chair \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~aboldyre\/\u0022\u003EAlexandra Boldyreva\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E became a full professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In his short time at Georgia Tech, Taesoo Kim has become a world leader in systems security, director of the System Software and Security Center, and a critical member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iisp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Information Security and Privacy\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026rdquo; SCS Chair\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lance.fortnow.com\/\u0022\u003ELance Fortnow\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Sasha Boldyreva is an expert in applied cryptography, particularly in searchable encryptions, and we are honored to have them both on our faculty.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoldyreva has been a cryptographer in SCS since 2005. She is a leader in her field, co-editing the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eprint.iacr.org\/\u0022\u003ECryptology ePrint archive\u003C\/a\u003E, working as an associate editor of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=10206\u0022\u003EIEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security\u003C\/a\u003E, and co-chairing the largest cryptography conference\u0026mdash;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/crypto.iacr.org\/2019\/\u0022\u003ECRYPTO\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026mdash;in 2018 and 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED CONTENT: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610656\/new-associate-chair-alexandra-boldyreva-co-chairs-biggest-cryptography-conference\u0022\u003ENew Associate Chair Alexandra Boldyreva Co-chairs Biggest Cryptography Conference\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBoldyreva recently stepped into the role of SCS\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/610656\/new-associate-chair-alexandra-boldyreva-co-chairs-biggest-cryptography-conference\u0022\u003Eassociate chair for graduate education\u003C\/a\u003E, in which she manages the school\u0026rsquo;s Ph.D. program, helps with student orientation, supervises admission, and assigns teaching assistants.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Achieving full professor at Georgia Tech is a great honor and a privilege,\u0026rdquo; Boldyreva said. \u0026ldquo;I am thankful to my wonderful colleagues for their trust, mentoring, and support in reaching this milestone. I don\u0026#39;t view it as the last milestone, but the beginning of a new direction in the work that I am doing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim joined the SCS faculty in 2014. His research focuses on building secure computing systems to detect and recover from cyberattacks. He earned a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/603930\/assistant-professor-taesoo-kim-wins-nsf-career-award-fuzzing-research\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation CAREER award\u003C\/a\u003E for his work on fuzzing, an automatic software-testing technique for finding bugs in complex programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED CONTENT: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/585141\/college-computings-taesoo-kim-has-passion-nitty-gritty-details-internet-security\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u0026#39;s Taesoo Kim Has a Passion For the \u0026#39;Nitty-Gritty Details\u0026#39; of Internet Security\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKim is equally passionate about teaching. His classes often give students \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/615238\/school-computer-science-hosts-first-capture-flag-hacking-competition\u0022\u003Ereal-world hacking experience\u003C\/a\u003E and have led them to win international competitions such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/609900\/team-georgia-tech-students-win-world-hacking-competition\u0022\u003EDEF CON\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor his efforts, Kim earned the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/599098\/school-computer-sciences-taesoo-kim-named-allchin-professor\u0022\u003ECatherine M. and James E. Allchin Early Career Professorship\u003C\/a\u003E, an endowed position that celebrates an early career professor who demonstrates considerable promise in the field of computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s my privilege and honor to have tenure at Georgia Tech,\u0026rdquo; Kim said. \u0026ldquo;With tenure, I will have more opportunities to explore high-risk, but high-return research projects.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sasha Boldyreva and Taesoo Kim both received promotions this spring."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-05-02 16:26:43","changed_gmt":"2019-05-02 16:47:30","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"621229":{"id":"621229","type":"image","title":"Taesoo and Sasha","body":null,"created":"1556814470","gmt_created":"2019-05-02 16:27:50","changed":"1556814470","gmt_changed":"2019-05-02 16:27:50","alt":"Sasha Boldyreva and Taesoo Kim","file":{"fid":"236636","name":"TaesooSasha.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TaesooSasha.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/TaesooSasha.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":74426,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/TaesooSasha.jpg?itok=2-tlZKOh"}}},"media_ids":["621229"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181221","name":"scs-cybersecurity"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}