Information Trust Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rakesh Bobba's research interests are in network and distributed system security and critical infrastructure protection. Topics of interest include authentication, access control, key management, security protocols and their formal analysis, and applied cryptography, among others.

Professor Borisov's research interests lie in the area of computer security and privacy, especially as applied to large-scale distributed systems. His current focus is on anonymity: analysis of existing anonymous systems and the design of new peer-to-peer anonymous networks.

Iwan Duursma's research interests are in the interaction of coding theory, cryptography and number theory, and algebraic geometry and geometric codes.

Prof. Hu's general research interests are in security and systems, with emphasis on the areas of secure systems and mobile communications.

Dr. Khurana's research interests lie in the area of distributed system security, especially as applied to large-scale distributed systems and critical infrastructures. He is currently working on developing security solutions for messaging systems and the power grid infrastructure.

In the area of digital rights management (DRM), Negar Kiyavash focuses on copyright protection, including digital watermarking and digital fingerprinting, steganography, and information-theoretic and algebraic DRM. In the area of biometrics, she is working on biometric authentication and biometric-aided access-based control.

Prof. Prabhakaran maintains broad interests spanning algorithms, complexity theory, coding theory, combinatorics, and cryptography. Of these, cryptography - the attempt to reduce nebulous questions of security to concrete problems in computational complexity theory - is his main focus.

Tim Yardley is interested in analyzing and developing techniques for securing scalable distributed systems and networks.