{"629242":{"#nid":"629242","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wenke Lee Receives Award for Pioneering Security Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wenke.gtisc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWenke Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E received the ACM \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpecial Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E)\u003C\/strong\u003E Outstanding Innovation Award. He was one of several School of Computer Science (SCS) researchers honored at the group\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sigsac.org\/ccs\/CCS2019\/\u0022\u003EACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)\u003C\/a\u003E in London this November.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee was recognized for his pioneering contributions to network and systems security. His team was among the first to study how adversaries can subvert machine learning (ML)-based systems. Their work brought ML to security analytics such as tackling intrusion and botnet detection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;While it is now a standard practice to apply ML to security analytics, we developed the first comprehensive ML framework for intrusion detection 20 years ago, and our papers have since been cited several thousands of times,\u0026rdquo; Lee said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELee\u0026rsquo;s team has continued to pursue forward-looking research in this important intersection of ML and security. Their recent work focuses on protecting user privacy in deep-learning based biometric authentication and surveillance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I have been very fortunate to have the opportunities to work on interesting research projects with my mentors, colleagues, and students in my career,\u0026rdquo; Lee said. \u0026ldquo;This award is really for all of us.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS received multiple awards at the conference. Lee\u0026rsquo;s students earned the best paper award. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www-users.cs.umn.edu\/~kjlu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKangjie Lu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a former student of Lee and SCS Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/taesoo.kim\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaesoo Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and SCS research scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hhu86\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHong Hu\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E won for their paper,\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~hhu86\/papers\/typedive.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E Where Does It Go? Refining Indirect-Call Targets with Multi-Layer Type Analysis\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~pearce\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was also given the runner-up of the 2019 ACS SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCS faculty and students received several honors at this year\u0027s CCS conference."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-11-21 21:32:17","changed_gmt":"2019-11-22 14:29:04","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"447071":{"id":"447071","type":"image","title":"Dr. Wenke Lee, IISP","body":null,"created":"1449256246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:46","changed":"1475895187","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:07","alt":"Dr. Wenke Lee, IISP","file":{"fid":"203234","name":"lee_iisp_sm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lee_iisp_sm_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lee_iisp_sm_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1130772,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lee_iisp_sm_0.jpg?itok=_p3MZ7Pb"}}},"media_ids":["447071"],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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, Comminications 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":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}