Welcome to the University of Pittsburgh
Leader and Researchers
School of Computing and Information
School of Computing and Information
The Laboratory for Education and Research on Security Assured
Information Systems
(LERSAIS) provides a framework for long-term goals:
(1) establishing a premier research
program that focuses on the diverse problems related to security and survivable
information
systems, networks, and infrastructures.
(2) developing and supporting high quality
education in security and information assurance.
The University of Pittsburgh has been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education since 2004 jointly by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
LERSAIS is Pitt's representative Center of Academic Excellence (CAE), and it has also been designated as CAE-Research. Current CAE/CAE-Research designation is valid till 2021, after which we apply for re-designation.
LERSAIS as part of the School of Computing and Information (SCI) serves as a multidisciplinary forum for the synergistic interaction among researchers within SCI as well as other experts in Information/Cyber Security and Privacy or IA-related areas outside the school.
We invite industry and academic collaborations in all areas of security research.
LERSAIS affiliated faculty are engaged in cutting edge security and privacy research, and are also involved in managing the Security Assured Information Systems (SAIS) track of study at the MS level and a Network and Security concentration at the Undergraduate level – both of these currently offered within the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems (DINS).
Further, DINS also offers a Certificate of Advanced Studies in SAIS.
IEEE CIC has been conceived as the key multidisciplinary venue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in Internet technologies, applications and services, collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications.
IEEE TPS-ISA is an international multidisciplinary forum for presentation of state-of-the art innovations, and discussion among academic, industrial researchers, and practitioners on issues related to trust, privacy and security in emerging smart and intelligent systems and applications.
Professor James Joshi and LERSAIS faculty hosted a GenCyber Camp for high school teachers, providing essential cybersecurity education resources and training. The camp focused on integrating cybersecurity concepts into various high school curricula and equipping teachers with tools to inspire the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
The cognitive machine intelligence (CogMI) is creating unprecedented opportunities for impactful scientific innovations and societal transformations by significantly augmenting the human ability for problem solving and rapid decision making in terms of speed, precision and variety, while fostering innovations in all our human endeavors.
Conducting secure privacy-preserving federated learning (PPFL) experiments that leverage large-scale, high-performance computational resources across distributed sites often demands technical capabilities beyond the reach of many organizations. To lower the barrier to entry for PPFL and empower domain experts in large institutions to utilize federated learning (FL), we developed Advanced Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning as a Service (APPFLx). APPFLx simplifies cross-silo PPFL through an intuitive web interface for managing, deploying, analyzing, and visualizing FL experiments.
Cellular network security is more critical than ever, given the increased complexity of these networks and the numbers of applications that depend on them, including telehealth, remote education, ubiquitous robotics and autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and Industry 4.0.