Guevara Noubir, Professor

College of Computer and Information Science

Email: lastname AT CCS DOT NEU DOT EDU

NEWS:

  1. ★Our paper on countering high-power jammers was selected as the runner-up best paper of ACM WiSec’13. Congratulations Triet.

  2. ★Our team ranked 3rd (out of 90 teams) in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge qualification phase (2013-2014). Congratulation Triet and Bishal.

  3. ★Our paper analyzing the robustness our rate adaptation won the ACM WiSec’11 best paper award. Congratulations Bishal!

  4. ★My students made it to the top 20 (our of over 1800 teams) in Google’s Android Developers Challenge. Congratulations Tao and Yin!


PROJECTS:

  1. ★Open Infrastructure is a wireless networks research framework that aims at leveraging residential broadband networks and routers to enable ubiquitous wireless access, and data storage in an efficient, reliable, low power, and low cost. It leverages several mechanisms such as social networking authentication, low power ZigBee radios, links bonding. Let us know if you are interested in joining our measurement network.

  2. ★Robust Wireless Systems against Smart Attacks is a coordinated set of activities developing fundamental mechanisms to thwart attacks on wireless networks. Our paper analyzing the robustness of rate adaptation won the ACM WiSec’11 best paper award.

  3. ★Privacy-preserving storage and computation in the cloud.

  4. ★Interfacing with biological material at the nanoscale. We organized two NSF Workshops on the topic on July 2011, and November 2012.


SHORT BIO:

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL 1996) and my engineering diploma (MS) from École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées at Grenoble ((ENSIMAG 1991). Prior to joining Northeastern University in 2001, I was a senior research scientist at CSEM SA (Switzerland) where I led several research project and contributed to the definition of the third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) standardized as 3GPP WCDMA. I held visiting research positions at Eurecom, MIT, and UNL. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. I serve on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and the Elsevier Computer Networks Journal. I regularly serve on the TPC of wireless networking and security conferences such as IEEE Infocom, ACM WiSec, ACM Mobicom, ACM MobiHoc.


TEACHING:

  1. I enjoy developing new courses that expose the students to fundamentals concepts both algorithmic and domain specific, with system building. I am currently teaching:


  1. ★Spring'12 - CS4700 & CS5700 (Fundamentals of Computer Networks): covers the fundamental conceptual, algorithmic, and practical aspects of networked systems.

  2. ★Spring'12 - CS6710 (Wireless Networks): covers the fundamentals of wireless communication systems, today's systems, and emerging trends. The course has several small projects and a large project.


  1. Some previous courses:

  2. ★Secure Wireless Ad hoc Robots on Mission (SWARM) exposes the students to the concepts underlying the design of robust and secure heterogeneous wireless networking of mobile robots (i.e., Internetworking, Security, Wireless Communication, Embedded Development, Mobile Phones Platforms).Teams design and build rescue-mission oriented heterogeneous wireless systems operating in adversarial environments... [Check Movie]

  3. ★SWARM Extreme a special topics course in networking. Check the movie where students wirelessly control a flying quadcopter with their thoughts using a Brain Computer Interface.



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

  1. Our research has been supported by DARPA, Draper Labs, NSF, Microsoft Research.

RESEARCH: Theoretical and practical aspects of secure and robust networked systems.