UCI to lead $10 million NSF-funded center on protecting personal data privacy

Researchers will address technical, social and policy challenges of networked world

Alex Nicolau elected into Academia Europaea

Alex Nicolau, chair and Distinguished Professor of computer science, has been admitted to the Academia Europaea. Founded in 1988, the academy comprises esteemed scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. Nominated by their peers for sustained academic excellence in their fields, members – who have included 73 Nobel laureates and six Turing Award winners – […]

9 UCI researchers named AAAS fellows

Honor is conferred for distinguished contributions to their fields

Typing while Skyping could compromise privacy

Traditional keyboard sounds can be decoded, UCI and Italian researchers find

Gene Tsudik

You’ve been hacked

With computer ‘break-ins’ growing in sophistication and number, UC Irvine researchers work to foil future attacks

Gene Tsudik with the GenoDroid app

Gene genie

UCI smartphone app permits secure storage, testing of DNA data

UCI app safely stores DNA on smartphones

UC Irvine computer scientists have created an app that could allow an individual to securely store and use his or her own DNA on a smartphone. GenoDroid, they said, could potentially be used for paternity and common-ancestry tests, customized cancer-fighting drugs and more.

Michael Goodrich and Gene Tsudik

Thwarting cyber attacks

UCI researchers try to ward off increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.

"Network Generation"

Tweeting, linking, Facebooking and you think you’ve got privacy? UCI panel will discuss the need for developing secure network infrastructure.