The SPIES research group, led by Prof. Nitesh Saxena, in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Texas A&M University (A&M/TAMU) conducts research on multitude of topics related to the security and privacy of “emerging” systems or paradigms. A computing and networking system is considered emerging if it has already started getting deployed in the real-world (albeit not to its fullest capacity), or is deemed promising for a wide-scale deployment in the near future. The security and privacy issues surrounding such emerging systems, however, may prevent end users from utilizing their full potential, or, even worse, may rule out the chances of their deployment in the future. Currently, these emerging systems range from mobile and wireless networks (such as those involving smartphones, wearables, IoT, sensors and RFID devices) to the Internet class of systems (such as web browsing, online social networks, and P2P).
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The SPIES of the spies lab, from left to right: Jimmy Dani, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Mashari Alatawi, Zengrui Liu, Shalini Saini, Md Imanul Huq, Cagri Arisoy.
