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  • (Aug 06) Liu was awarded a STTR research grant from ARO.
  • (Jul 06) Liu was awarded a research grant from the PaCSCI program.
  • (June 06) Congratulations to Hai Wang and Peng Liu for their paper accepted by ESORICS 2006.  This work extends the traditional MTTF-MTTR reliability evaluation model to an innovative MTTA-MTTD-MTTM-MTTR survivability evaluation model. 
  • (Apr 06) Congratulations to Xinran Wang, Chi-Chun Pan, Peng Liu, and Sencun Zhu for their SigFree paper accepted by USENIX Security 2006.
  • (Apr 06) Following a rigorous review by the National Security Agency (NSA), the efforts of the Center for IA at the Penn State University have recently resulted in a renewal of the University's status as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.
  • (Apr 06) Liu moderated the Info Security & Assurance panel on the IST Future Forum. 
  • (Jan 06) Penn State filed a provisional patent for our SigFree invention.  
  • (Jan 06) Penn State will open a new Security and Information Analysis BS major hosted in IST in Fall 06  
  • (Jan 06) Liu will co-chair the IFIP DBSEC 2006 conference. 
  • (Jan 06) A new paper will appear on ACM AsiaCCS 2006.
  • (Jan 06) Meng and Wanyu are having a new baby. Congratulations! 
  • (July 05) The research of our lab was highlighted by the DoD IA Newsletter.
  • (July 05) Liu, as a SME, was highlighted by the DoD IA Newsletter.
  • (June 05) Qijun accepted an assistant professor position at Texas State University. Congratulations!
  • (June 05) The Penn State Information Assurance Education Workshop was successfully held in June 22-23 at University Park.
  • (March 05) Liu attended the NSF-Dept of Treasury Workshop on Resilient Financial Information Systems by invitation.
  • (Feb 05) Liu visited Pittsburgh University and gave an invited talk on worm defense.
  • (Jan 05) Liu visited Purdue University CERICS and gave an invited talk on self-healing databases against cyber attacks.
  • (Nov 04) Liu visited University of Delaware and gave an invited talk on worm defense.
  • (October 04) The ESVT toolkit, Version 1.0, is released in Oct. 25 to the DETER test-bed users. 
  •  (August 04) Meng accepts an assistant professor position at Monmouth University. Congratulations!
  • (August 04) Wanyu declined two faculty offers to stay with her husband Meng Yu. Best wishes!
  • (August 04) Chu and Liu are awarded a Dept of Defense IASP grant. 
  • (June 04) Liu and Chu are awarded a NSF IA capacity building grant.
  • (Jan 04) Our lab has moved into the nearly 200,000 sq. ft. IST building.
  • (Dec 03) Chu, Liu and LaPorta are awarded a Cisco CIAG grant.    
  • (Sept 03) Kesidis, Liu, and Miller are awarded a $2,300,000 NSF/DHS grant to investigate the evaluation methodologies for Internet security technologies. This grant is part of the DETER & EMIST project.
  • (July 02) Liu is awarded a NSF grant to develop QoIA aware attack-resilient database systems.
  • (July 02) Liu received the DOE Early Career Principle Investigator award.
  • (July 00) Liu is awarded a DARPA OASIS grant to develop intrusion tolerant database systems.

IA Education at Penn State

  • (May 07) Chu and Liu won a Dept. of Defense Info Assurance Scholarship Grant. The total budget of this grant is about $240,000. 
  • (Sept 06) Liu and Chu were awarded a Dept of Defense Info Assurance Scholarship Grant.
  • (Sept 06) Liu and Chu were awarded a Dept of Defense Info Assurance Capacity Building Grant.
  •  (Apr 06) The IST Theme Track now has about 100 students enrolled.