Dear all,

Greetings…!!!

IEEE Signal Processing Society Kerala Section Chapter invites you for the Distinguished Lecture Program (DLP) which is scheduled as part of International Conference on Control Communication and Computing (IC4 2018).

Date: 5th July 2018 (Thursday)

Venue: Hotel Central Residency, Aristo Junction, Trivandrum.

Timing:11.15 am to 12.30 pm

Speaker: Prof. Rick S. Blum

(Robert W. Wieseman Professor of Electrical Engineering,

Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA)

Topic: Cyber Attacks on Internet of Things Systems.

Abstract:

The Internet of Things (IoT) improves pervasive sensing and control capabilities via the aid of modern digital communication, signal processing and massive deployment of sensors. The employment of low-cost and spatially distributed IoT sensor nodes with limited hardware and battery power, along with the low required latency to avoid unstable control loops, presents severe security challenges.  Attackers can modify the data entering or communicated from the IoT sensors which can have serious impact on any algorithm using this data for inference. In this talk we describe how to provide tight bounds (with sufficient data) on the performance of the best algorithms trying to estimate a parameter from the attacked data and communications under any assumed statistical model describing how the sensor data depends on the parameter before attack.  The results hold regardless of the estimation algorithm adopted which could employ deep learning, machine learning, statistical signal processing or any other approach. Example algorithms that achieve performance close to these bounds are illustrated. Attacks that make the attacked data useless for reducing these bounds are also described. These attacks provide a guaranteed attack performance in terms of the bounds regardless of the algorithms the estimation system employs.  References are supplied which provide various extensions to all the specific results presented and a brief discussion of applications to IEEE 1588 for clock synchronization is provided.

Speaker Profile:

Prof. Rick Blum holds the Robert W. Wieseman Research Professorship in Electrical Engineering and is director of Lehigh's Signal Processing and Communication Research Lab. His research interests include signal processing for smart grid, sensor networking, communications, radar and sensor processing.

Prof. Rick S. Blum received B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (1984) and M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (1987 and 1991). Prior to joining the Lehigh faculty, he was a member of technical staff at General Electric Aerospace and graduated from GE`s Advanced Course in Engineering. He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Advances in Information Fusion of the International Society of Information Fusion. He was an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and for IEEE Communications Letters. He has edited special issues for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He is a member of the SAM Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Signal Processing for Communications TC of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the Communications Theory TC of the IEEE Communication Society.

Dr. Blum is a Fellow of the IEEE, an IEEE Third Millennium Medal winner, a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, and holds several patents. He was awarded an ONR Young Investigator Award in 1997 and an NSF Research Initiation Award in 1992.

For queries, please contact:

Dr. Suresh Kumarasamy,

Chair, IEEE SPS Kerala Section Chapter

Professor, ECE,

College of Engineering Trivandrum.

+91 – 944 633 3485

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