Towards Trustworthy Big Data Technologies and Smart-Infrastructures
Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 8:45am - 10:00am
KEC 1007
Attila Yavuz
Research Scientist
Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center North America
Abstract:
Security and privacy are critical for the success of many emerging technology
trends. Among these trends, big data technologies and smart infrastructures are
especially important due to their significant impact on the society in general
and science at large. In this talk, I will first highlight some of the security
and privacy challenges of these technology trends. I will then describe my
contributions towards trustworthy big data technologies and
smart-infrastructures.
A fundamental challenge in big data technologies is how to achieve the
search/analysis and privacy of sensitive data simultaneously. Addressing this
challenge will be a key enabler for important domains such as
privacy-preserving healthcare informatics, computing clouds and finance
systems. To this end, we initiated the research program Privacy Enhancing
Technologies for Big Data Analytics at Bosch Research. This research includes
development of new Searchable Encryption schemes that permit practical searches
on the encrypted data. The second part of my talk will concentrate on the
security of smart-infrastructures. The challenge here is to provide scalable
and reliable security in distributed and heterogeneous scenarios (e.g.
smart-grid and intra/inter car network). To this end, I have developed a series
of authentication and integrity mechanisms, which can address these security
requirements in an efficient and scalable manner. Finally, I will discuss my
future research ag!
enda that focuses on important security and privacy needs of big data
technologies and smart-infrastructures.
Biography:
Dr. Attila Altay Yavuz has been a member of the security and privacy research group at the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center North America since December 2011. He is also an adjunct faculty at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Sciences. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in August 2011. He received a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Yildiz Technical University (2004) and a MS degree in Computer Science from Bogazici University (2006), both in Istanbul, Turkey.
His expertise is in the areas of applied cryptography, network security and privacy. He leads a
corporate-funded research program, "Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Big Data
Analytics", which aims at developing practical searchable encryption schemes. In addition, he
conducts research on the topic of "Efficient Security Mechanisms for Smart
Infrastructures". His work has appeared in respected conferences and journals. He also has
many patents to his name, that have shaped real-world products in the market.
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