Mobile Pervasive and Sensor Systems Laboratory

Some new papers published by our group in the last few months. They related to home energy management, education, CPS security, and neuroscience.

1 Venkat Reddy, Brian Bushee, Marcus Chong, Matthew Law, Mayank Thirani, Mark Yan, Sami Rollins, Nilanjan Banerjee, Alark Joshi, Influencing Participant Behavior Through a Notification-Based Recommendation System, Persuasive Technology 2018, Waterloo Canada.

2. Matthew Law, Mayank Thirani, Sami Rollins, Alark Joshi, Nilanjan Banerjee, Understanding Home Energy Saving Recommendations, Persuasive Technolgy 2018, Waterloo Canada.

3. Tracie Severson, Erick J. Rodríguez-Seda, Brien Croteau, Deepak Krishnankutty, Kiriakos Kiriakidis, Chintan Patel, Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci, Trust-Based Framework for Resilience to Sensor-Targeted Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems, The 2018 American Control Conference, Milwaukee, USA (ACC 2018).

4. Carla Viviana Coleman and Nilanjan Banerjee,
Interdisciplinary Teaching Strategies for Designing and Building Effective Smartphone applications, GetMobile, 2018.

5. Zheng Li, Ryan Robucci, Justin Brooks, Scott Kerick, Javier Garcia, Nilanjan Banerjee, Implementation of structural synchrony and linear measures of brain network
connectivity for real-time state estimation, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Florence,
Italy, 2018.

6. Autumn Reed, Nilanjan Banerjee, Elsa Garcin, Wayne Lutters, Susan McDonough, Christopher Murphy, Kevin Omland
Recruiting a Critically Diverse and Inclusively Excellent Faculty through STRIDE Peer Education, 2018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity Conference.

7. Brien Croteau, Deepak Krishnankutty, Kiriakos Kiriakidis, Tracie Severson, Chintan Patel, Ryan Robucci, Erick Rodriguez-Seda, Nilanjan Banerjee, Cross-Level Detection Framework for Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems,
Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, Vol 1, Issue 4, pp 356-369.

8. Autumn Reed, Nilanjan Banerjee, Elsa Garcin, Wayne Lutters, Susan McDonough, Christopher Murphy, Kevin Omland,
Planning for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence in Your Search: A Focused Conversation with UMBC STRIDE, Workshop
at Understanding Interventions Conference, Baltimore, 2018

Anoop Bhatti graduated with a M.S. this morning. He is the 20th MS thesis student I have graduated in 8 years as a faculty. His work was on applying deep neural networks for classifying fragmented sleep from leg movements. Congrats. He joins a defense contractor as a full time student.

https://www.csee.umbc.edu/2017/09/umbc-csee-faculty-talks-umbc-grit-x-sat-oct-14/

CSEE faculty Banerjee and Slaughter to give short talks at UMBC Grit-X, Sat. 10/14, UMBC UMBC CSEE Profs Gymama Slaughter and Nilanjan Banerjee to talk at UMBC Grit-X, 10-12 Sat Oct 14 at UMBC

Some new research papers published from our group.
Congrats to the students.
(most of the papers can be downloaded from
www.csee.umbc.edu/~nilanb/publications.html)

Longitudinal Energy Waste Detection With Visualization, David Lachut, Nilavra Pathak, Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci, Nirmalya Roy, 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (ACM BuildSys 2017)

Evaluating Touchless Capacitive Gesture Recognition as an Assistive Device for Upper Extremity Mobility Impairment, Alexander Nelson, Sandy Mccombe-Waller, Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci, Chintan Patel, Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering.

Mini-MAC: Raising the Bar for Vehicular Security with a Lightweight Message Authentication Protocol, Jackson Schmandt, Alan Sherman, Nilanjan Banerjee, Vehicular Communications, 2017

Integrating End-User Feedback in the Early Development of a Novel Sensor Access System for Environmental Control, Susan Koch Fager, Tabatha Sorenson, Susanne Butte, Alexander Nelson, Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2017

Cross-level Detection of Sensor-based Deception Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems, Brien Croteau, Deepak Krishnankutty, Kiriakos Kiriakidis, Ryan Robucci, Chintan Patel, Nilanjan Banerjee, Tracie Severson and Erick Rodriguez-Seda, IEEE Cyber, 2017

PreSight: Enabling Real-time Detection of Accessibility Problems on Sidewalks Zheng Li, Mahbubur Rahman, Ryan Robucci, Nilanjan Banerjee
IEEE SECON, 2017

Nilanjan Banerjee | Publications

Our own Deepak and his side channel power analysis project featured at ABC2: http://www.abc2news.com/news/region/baltimore-county/cracking-the-code

UMBC is on a mission to crack the code Students at UMBC are learning how to hack into systems and prevent attacks. They study hardwarre, software and the tools in between.

Ting's student Zhichuan graduated with a Ph.D. It was very informative being part of his Ph.D. committee. Congrats to Ting and Zhichuan.

Our paper: FISCAL : Firmware Identification Using Side-Channel Power Analysis, Deepak KRISHNANKUTTY, Ryan ROBUCCI, Nilanjan BANERJEE, Chintan PATEL was accepted to IEEE VLSI Test Symposium in Vegas. Congrats to Deepak!

Our group is now officially part of the Army Research Lab, Center of Adaptive Soldier Technologies (CAST). Read about our Human Variability Project: https://www.arl.army.mil/cast/?q=THVP
CAST page: https://www.arl.army.mil/cast/

THVP News | Center for Adaptive Soldier Technology To enable these experimental efforts, we will leverage a broad range of state-of-the-art technologies and tools for real-time sensing, computation and database needs, user modelling, and human performance prediction. Part of our effort will also seek to advance tools specific to long-term, continuou...

My student, Jack Schmandt graduated with a MS today. Ask him about his work on CAN authentication. He is headed to do great things at the Navy Research Lab in DC. Congrats!

Our group has received close to $170K for a year in seed funding from Defense Collaboration Services to study human adaptations in a War fighting scenarios. The project combines Virtual reality with EEG monitoring to understand human state in an immersive training scenario. Stay tuned for some cool results on this extremely challenging problem.

Our paper: Micro-radar Wearable Respiration Monitor, Ruthvik Kukkapali, Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci, Yordan Kostov, was accepted for publication at IEEE Sensors 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Congrats to Ruthvik!