The Center for Cyber Security (CCS) at New York Univerity Abu Dhabi continues to develop high quality research that addresses challenges relevant to the UAE and region. Â The UAE has one of the most advanced Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructures in the region, as well as a high number of high-tech organizations and enterprises. However, advanced ICT infrastructures are the most vulnerable to threats and to the continuously changing advances in cyber-crime and cyber-warfare. The need for UAE based research in information and cyber-security is therefore increasingly important.
UAE Cyber Security Day's goal is to organize a visionary research session that highlights and outlines the key research issues and challenges for ICT.Â
Prof. Bart Preneel is a full professor at the KU Leuven; he heads the COSIC research group, that is a member of the iMinds research center. The COSIC research group currently has 70 members, including 5 professors, 20 postdoctoral researchers, and more than 40 PhD students. Bart Preneel was visiting professor at five universities in Europe and scientific advisor at Philips Research. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications and is inventor of 5 patents. He has graduated more than 50 PhD students. His main research interests are cryptography, information security and privacy. Bart Preneel has participated to about 40 EU projects, for seven of these as coordinator. He has coordinated the Network of Excellence ECRYPT 2004-2012, 250 researchers) and is coordinating ECRYPT-CSA and the Marie-Curie ITN ECRYPT.NET. He has served as panel member, vice-chair and chair for the European Research Council and has been vice-president and president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research). He is a member of the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency), of the Academia Europaea, and of the Belgian Privacy Commission (subcommittee national register). He has been invited speaker at more than 120 conferences in 50 countries. In 2013 he testified in the European Parliament for the LIBE Committee Inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens. He received the 2014 RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics and in 2015 he was nominated fellow of the IACR. In 2016 he received the Kristian Beckman award from IFIP TC11 and he was invited to deliver the IACR Distinguished lecture.
 Impactful Cyber Security Research
 Redefining: Security from innovation to laws
Successes, Opportunities and Challenges
Moderator: Dr. Hoda A Khezaimy
Panelists:
Major Salem Al Ameri, Head of Cyber E-crime Branch AD police
Lt. 1st Sultan Al shareef, Cyber Security Investigator, AD police
Nasir Ahmed Al Rashedi, Director space policy and regulation in UAE Space agency
Thabet Bakheet, Head of information security and cyber security initiative in UAE central bankÂ
Lunch/Poster Session on Cyber Security research in UAE Universities
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Adaptive Generation of Unique IDs for Digital Chips Through Analog Excitation
Chandra K H Suresh, Sule Ozev, Dr. Ozgur Sinanoglu
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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AI Classification Algorithms for Phishing Email Detection
Suhail Palliate, Lu’ay Abu Rayyan, Mohammad Abu Qbeitah
Zayed University
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On Improving the Security of Logic Encryption
Muhammad Yasin, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Dr. Ozgur Sinanoglu, Prof. Ramesh Karri
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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Cyber Attacks and Cascading Congestion in Urban Traffic
Abdullah Heyari, Dr. Saif Jabari, Deepthi Mary Dilip
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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Lightweight Encryption for Smart Home
Sanaah Al Salami, Joonsang Baek, Khaled Salah
Khalifa University
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Secure Processor Design and Fabrication
Mohammed Ashraf, Mohammed Nabeel, Nektarios Tsoutsos, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Michail Maniatakos
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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Identifying Source Camera of Video
Samet Taspinar, Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty, and Prof. Nasir Memon
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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The "Silent" Approach to Detect Caller-ID Spoofing
Dr. Payas Gupta, Mounir Khaled Moustafa Elgharabawy and Prof. Mustaque Ahamad
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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Privacy Preserving Functional IP Verification with FHE
Raghad Baiad, Charalambos Konstantinou, Anastasis Keliris, Dr. Michail Maniatakos
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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Smart City Experimentation and Security Evaluation Testbed
Marios Sazos
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
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Big Data Analytics for UAE Cyber Security Intelligence
Dr. Claude Fachkha, Joe Jean
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
Computer Aided Design Strategies to Secure Additive Manufacturing
Fei Chen, Dr. Nikhil Gupta
Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
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A Novel Method for Carving Orphaned JPEG File Fragments
 E Uzun and H. T. Sencar
Center for Cyber Security, NYUADÂ
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Timing Attack Vulnerabilities of NEMS Relay Based Design
Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Samah Saeed, Sk. Subidh Ali, Ozgur Sinanoglu
Center for Cyber Security, NYUAD
Security Implications of Cyber-physical Digital Microfluidic Biochips
 Sk. Subidh Ali, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Ramesh Karri
Center for Cyber Security, NYUADÂ
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Enhanced Image-Based CAPTCHA
Naeema AlMansoori , Maryam AlYammahi, Muna AlKetbi and Monther Aldwairi
Zayed University
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Cyber Security research presentations from UAE Universities:
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Efficient Hardware Cryptographic cores for IOT and Big Data
Dr. Hoda A. Khezaimy, Director of Research and Development in Cyber Security and CrypotologyÂ
EAIG, Emirates Advanced Investment Group
Reducing the Hash function complexity, SHA-1 as an example.
Dr. Yousef Al Hammadi, Assistant Professor in the College of Information Technology
United Arab Emirates University
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Quantum technology and cybersecurity
Dr. Faisal Shah Khan, Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics and Sciences
Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Campus
Digital Forgetting - Timed Revocation of Online Data
Dr. Christina Popper, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
New York University Abu Dhabi
Securing Crypto Keys in the Cloud
Dr. Khaled Salah, Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Khalifa University, Sharjah Campus
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L Pattern Matching for Signature-Based IDS Using Myers Algorithm, MapReduce and GPUsÂ
Dr. Monther Alduwairi, Associate Professor in the College of Technological Innovation
Zayed University
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Cyber Security for Enterprises and BIG DATA
Dr. B. Vijayakumar, Professor and Head, Computer Science Department
Dr. S. Vadivel, Professor, Computer Science DepartmentÂ
Dr. Sujala D Shetty, Assistant Professor, Computer Science DepartmentÂ
 BITS Pilani, Dubai CampusÂ
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Creating a second line of defense: Computer Aided Design features to secure 3D printing
Dr. Nikhil Gupta, Mechanical Engineering
Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
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Our Vision is to establish a world class cyber security center by partnering with key local universities, industry and government agencies in order to facilitate cyber security research, education and practice in the UAE and more generally in the GCC region. The center will act as a catalyst to improve cyber security in the UAE and enhance its regional and global competitiveness in this field.
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