Sprout makes the news! - July 10, 2018
    Thermanator: Thermal Residue-Based Post Factum Attacks On Keyboard Password Entry has attracted a lot of media attention.
    Refereed Discussion Session - September 13, 2013
    A discussion session proposal titled: "Privacy Considerations of Genome Sequencing" co-authored by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik (with JP Hubeax and Erman Ayday of EPFL) was accepted for presentation at USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2013.
    Sprout makes the news! - January 23, 2013
    GeneDroid Android application gets covered by UCI News, OC Register, KTLA TV, KPCC and PBS SoCal.
    Sprout Makes the News - November 1, 2012
    GeneDroid Android application gets covered by NewScientist.
    HotPETs'12 - August 1, 2011
    Emiliano is appointed to serve as program co-chair at the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs'12), to be held in Vigo (Spain) next July.
    PARC Offer Accepted - May 26, 2011
    Emiliano has accepted an offer as as member of Research Staff from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Congrats!
    2010 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - May 23, 2011
    Bryan Parno (a student of Adrian Perrig) won the 2010 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and Gene Tsudik was on his dissertation committee.
    A New Baby! - September 1, 2010
    Mishari Almishari and his family celebrated the birth of their new daughter, Sara Almishari, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. SPROUT congratulates the two proud parents! May little Sara grow up to be healthy, happy, and wise.
    PARC offer accepted - August 17, 2010
    Dr. Ersin Uzun has accepted a job offer as research staff at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). SPROUT congratulates him and wishes him many years of fruitful research.
    Dean's Dissertation Fellowship - July 19, 2010
    Emiliano De Cristofaro has been awarded the $10,000 UCI Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. Congrats, Emiliano!
    Prestigious Fellowship Award - July 9, 2010
    Claudio Soriente has been awarded the highly prestigious "Juan de la Cierva" Fellowship. This three year postdoc fellowship, similar to a Fulbright or Marie-Curie, is offered by the government of Spain. Congratulations Claudio!
    SCONCE Seminar Talk - May 17, 2010
    Kasper Bonne Rasmussen from the System Security Group at ETH Zurich will be giving a SCONCE Seminar talk on Monday May 24th. Title: Realization of RF Distance Bounding Location: 11am-12pm in DBH 3011
    MIT Technology Review - April 21, 2010
    Emiliano De Cristofaro, in collaboration with Claude Castelluccia and Daniele Perito of INRIA, investigate how intercepting Google's personalized search suggestions can be used to reconstructed user search histories. See MIT Tech Review
    AFRL Position Accepted - February 25, 2010
    John Duselis, the first NSF Scholarship-for-Service (SFS) PhD graduate at UCI, is starting his SFS job at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) located in the Dayton Air Force Base, Dayton OH. Congratulations, John!!!
    Invited Talk - February 24, 2010
    On February 24, Gene Tsudik is giving a keynote talk titled '(RFID) Readers Behaving Badly' at the Symantec Cutting Edge 2010 conference in Culver City, CA.
    Financial Crypto paper to be presented - January 25, 2010
    The paper "Practical Private Set Intersection Protocols with Linear Complexity" by Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gene Tsudik will be presented in the upcoming Fourteen International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, held in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), on next January 25-28. Preliminary version of the paper can be found at http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/491
    PhD Advancement - December 1, 2009
    Yanbin Lu has successfully passed his advancement exam and is now officially a PhD Candidate. Congrats Yanbin!