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Clarkson professor accepted into Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program

Posted 3/25/16

Clarkson University Assistant Professor Chen Liu was recently accepted into the 2016 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program for the second year in a row. As a fellow, Liu will study …

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Clarkson professor accepted into Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program

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Clarkson University Assistant Professor Chen Liu was recently accepted into the 2016 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program for the second year in a row.

As a fellow, Liu will study cybersecurity and malware detection in a cloud computing environment.

The program is “highly competitive,” with faculty from across the nation applying to the research sites and the Air Force selecting only a few projects that are interesting to the organization, according to a Clarkson press release.

Liu will attend the program this summer at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome.

Liu is researching the development of hardware-aided defense mechanisms that will spot anomalous executions caused by malware. The idea is to use information from the hardware level to detect anomalies in the software level.

Through this research, Liu said he aims to quantitatively study the robustness of the intrusion detection mechanism that monitors and detects anomalies caused by malicious exploits.

The overall goal is to elevate the capability of computer systems that automatically and adaptively detect and recover from exploitation-based attacks, as well as improve the trust and resilience of computing systems, according to the release.

Fellows conduct research in collaboration with Air Force researchers for a period of eight to 12 weeks in the summer at the Technical Directorates of the research lab, the U.S. Air Force Academy, or the Air Force Institute of Technology.