Center for Networked Systems

Congratulations to Wenyi "Morty" Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin, Nadia Heninger, and Aaron Schulman for their CCS distinguished paper award. Their research is featured in the October 13 WIRED article titled "Satellites are Leaking the World's Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data." https://cns.ucsd.edu/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/

CNS is proud to announce that two undergraduate students have been awarded the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships this year. Kevin Garcia, a UCSD sophomore majoring in political science: public policy and business economics, is among the recipients. https://cns.ucsd.edu/?p=11810

Applications are due April 2nd for the CNS Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships. The scholarships are for enrolled UC San Diego undergraduates who actively support the LGBTQIA+ community and major in computer science, computer or electrical engineering, communications, or political science/public policy majors, and other programs touching on networked systems who can describe in their application how they are connected to the LGBTQIA+ community* and are actively advocating for LGBTQIA+ issues. Preference is given to students with demonstrated academic merit, academic involvement and financial need.

PLEASE APPLY HERE: https://ucsd.academicworks.com/opportunities/4774

All eligible students are encouraged to apply. The Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship does not consider race, color, national origin, religion, s*x, disability, and/or other protected categories as part of the application and selection process.

2025 Forbes 30 Under 30. Liz Izhikevich’s path to this recognition began at UC San Diego, where she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Her connections to the Triton community remain strong... https://cns.ucsd.edu/triton-alumni-shine-on-2025-forbes-30-under-30/

The Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft recently interviewed CNS faculty member Dr. Christian Dameff along with Dr. Jeff Tully of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity at UCSD. The video of the roundtable discussion with threat intelligence and healthcare security experts who examine what makes healthcare uniquely susceptible to ransomware attacks can be found here: https://bit.ly/3AeW4qm

Jonathan Ty, a sophomore majoring in computer science, has been awarded the 2024-2025 Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship and the Alan Turing Memorial Teradata Scholarship from the University of California San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems. https://shorturl.at/7HuHv

The CNS Research Review concluded today, and we look forward to continuing the conversations. Thank you to the students, faculty, and industry researchers who attended.

The deadline has been extended to April 2, 2024. The last day to apply for the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships! https://cns.ucsd.edu/?p=11012

Attention UC San Diego undergraduate students! The last day to apply for the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships is March 2nd. https://cns.ucsd.edu/?p=11012

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick and Stefan Savage will use LLMs to understand digital fraudster behavior by experimenting with chatbots as honeypots. They are inaugural recipients of the Google Trust & Safety Research Awards, working to create a positive societal impact with technology. https://cns.ucsd.edu/inaugural-recipients-of-the-google-trust-safety-research-award/

Updating passwords is disruptive to users and IT. Little research has been done to determine how a password update campaign can be conducted efficiently and with minimal IT costs. Until now. https://cns.ucsd.edu/how-to-run-a-password-update-campaign/

Congratulations to Mounika Padala, a CSE master’s student and graduate student researcher, who was awarded the CNS Grace Hopper Travel Grant, funded by the CSE's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee. https://cns.ucsd.edu/?p=10771