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Radha Poovendran

	Radha Poovendran Professor Communications and Networking - Network Security and Cryptography Network Security Lab (NSL) Contact Information
	University of Maryland, College Park, 1999, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1992, M.S.E.E. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, 1988, B.Tech.

Biosketch

Professor Radha Poovendran has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle since 2000. At the UW EE, Professor Poovendran is the Founding Director of the Network Security Lab (NSL). He is also a founding member and the Associate Director for Research at the UW Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity. This academic center is a collaborative effort at the UW and includes multiple disciplines and departments, including EE, across the UW campuses. The center is also certified as a "National Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education" by National Security Agency (NSA).

His doctoral dissertation work was on cryptographic key management for secure multicast communications. His contributions to the wireless security includes, energy-efficient group keying, introducing cross-layer approach in security, secure location estimation in sensor networks, modeling and characterization of wormholes, privacy in medical as well as vehicular ad hoc networks. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award (2001), ARO YIP Award (2002), and ONR YIP Award (2004), and PECASE Award (2005) for his research contributions in the areas of wired and wireless security. He has served as a guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (Special issue on Wireless Security 2006), technical program co-chair of the ACM Wireless Security Workshop (WiSe) for two consecutive years 2005-2006, and local chair for IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2006. He was a technical program co-chair of the first ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec) and the National Workshop on High Confidence Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems in 2008.

His work is funded by NSF, DoD and Industry.
 

Selected Honors

2007: Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Sciences

2006: Mentor Recognition Award from University of California at San Diego

2005: PECASE

2004: ONR Young Investigator Award

2002: ARO Young Investigator Award

2001: NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award

Research Interests

Applied cryptography for network security, Information theory and game theory, Resource allocation problems, Discrete algorithms and optimization in networks, Cyber-physical systems.

Representative Publications [Click here for a complete list of publications]

1. D. Slater, P. Tague, R. Poovendran, and B. Matt, "A Coding-Theoretic Approach for Efficient Message Verification Over Insecure Channels," 2nd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), March 2009, pp. 151-160. [PDF]

   A journal version in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, p. 14-25, January 2009.[PDF]

 

2. K. Sampigethaya, R. Poovendran and L. Bushnell, "Secure Operation, Control and Maintenance of Future e-Enabled Airplane, Proceedings of the IEEE special issue on Aviation Information Systems, Vol. 96, No. 12, pp. 1992-2007, December 2008. [PDF]
  

3. P. Tague, D. Slater, J. Rogers, and R. Poovendran, "Vulnerability of Network Traffic under Node Capture Attacks using Circuit Theoretic Analysis," 27th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'08), April 2008, pp. 161-165. [PDF]

   A journal version in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 111-123, April-June 2009.[PDF]

 

4. P. Tague, M. Li and R. Poovendran, "Probabilistic Mitigation of Control Channel Jamming via Random Key Distribution," 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2007, pp. 1-5. Best student paper.  [PDF]

   A journal version in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 8, No. 9, September 2009.[PDF]

 

5. L. Lazos, R. Poovendran, and J. Ritcey, Probabilistic Detection of Mobile Targets in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, 6th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 2007, pp. 519-528. [PDF]

   A journal version in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 5, no. 2, Mar. 2009, pp. 1-38.[PDF]

 

6. P. Tague and R. Poovendran, "Modeling Adaptive Node Capture Attacks in Multihop Wireless Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 801-814, August 2007. [PDF]
  
7. P. Tague and R. Poovendran, "A General Probabilistic Model for Improving Key Assignment in Wireless Networks," 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), April 2006, pp. 1-9.  [PDF]

   A journal version in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 19.1-19.39, October 2007.[PDF]

 

8. L. Lazos and R. Poovendran, "Coverage in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks," 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), April 2006, pp. 1 - 10.  [PDF]

   A journal version in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp. 325 - 358, August 2006. 

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9. M. Li, K. Sampigethaya, L. Huang, and R. Poovendran, "Swing & Swap: User-Centric Approaches Towards Maximizing Location Privacy," ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), pp. 19-28, October 2006. [PDF]

    

10. K. Sampigethaya, L. Huang, M. Li, R. Poovendran, K. Matsuura, and K. Sezaki, "CARAVAN: Providing Location Privacy for VANET," Embedded Security in Cars (ESCAR), November 2005.  [PDF]

    A journal version in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Vehicular Networks, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 1569-1589, October 2007.[PDF]

 

11. L. Lazos and R. Poovendran, "SeRLoc: Secure Range-Independent Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks," 2004 ACM workshop on Wireless security (ACM WiSe 2004), Philadelphia, PA.  [PDF]

    A journal version in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 73-100, August 2005.[PDF]

 

12. R. Poovendran and L. Lazos, "A Graph Theoretic Framework for Preventing the Wormhole Attack in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,"ACM Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET). [PDF] 

 

13. L. Lazos, S. Capkun, and R. Poovendran, "ROPE: Robust Position Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks," Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '05), April 2005. [PDF]

 

14. L. Lazos and R. Poovendran, "Cross-Layer Design for Energy-Efficient Secure Multicast Communications in Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 20-24, 2004, Paris, France. [PDF]

    A journal version in ACM Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET). [PDF]

 

15. I. Kang and R. Poovendran, "Maximizing Network Lifetime of Broadcasting over Wireless Stationary Ad Hoc Networks," ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET): Special Issue on Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 879 - 896, December 2005. [PDF]

 

16. K. Sampigethaya and R. Poovendran, "A Framework and Taxonomy for Comparison of Electronic Voting Schemes," Elsevier Computers & Security, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 137-153, March 2006. [PDF]

     

17. L. Lazos and R. Poovendran, "Energy-Aware Secure Multicast Communication in Ad-hoc Networks Using Geographic Location Information," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, April 2003, pp. 201-203. [PDF]
 

18. R. Poovendran and B. Matt, "Security Analysis and Extensions of PCB Algorithm for Distributed Key Generation," in "Harmonic Analysis, Signal Processing, and Complexity," I. Sabadini, D.C.Struppa and David Walnut Editors. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis series, pp. 135-150. Vol. 238 in the series Progress in Mathematics, Birkhauser, Boston, 2005. [PDF]

     

19. M. Li and R. Poovendran, "Broadcast Enforced Threshold Schemes with Disenrollment," Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2003), August 14-15, 2003. [PDF]

    A journal version in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. [PDF]

 

20. M. Li, R. Poovendran, and C. Berenstein, "Design of Secure Multicast Key Management Schemes with Communication Budget Constraint," IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 108-110, March  2002. [PDF]  

 

21. R. Poovendran, J. S. Baras, "An Information Theoretic Analysis of Rooted-Tree Based Secure Multicast Key Distribution Schemes," Advances in Cryptology, CRYPTO 99, pp. 624-638. August 1999.

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    A journal version in IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 2824-2834, November 2001. 

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