Radha Poovendran - UWEE Faculty
Electrical Engineering

UWEE Faculty

Radha Poovendran

Radha Poovendran
Associate Professor
Communications and Networking - Network Security and Cryptography

Network Security Lab (NSL)

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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]   [Honors]   [Research Interests]   [Selected Publications]  [NSL Alumni]

                           

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 is technical program co-chair of the first ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec) to be held 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.

 

Representative Publications

  1. 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 '06), April 2006, pp. 1 - 10.  [PDF]

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

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  2. 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]

     

  3. 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 appears in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 73-100, August 2005. 

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

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  5. 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]

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  6. 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 to appear in ACM Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET). 

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  7. 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]

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  8. R. 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]

     

  9. 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]

     

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

    A journal version to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

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  11. 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]  

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  12. 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. [PDF]

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

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NSL Alumni

Loukas Lazos, PhD 2006, Assistant Professor, ECE department, University of Arizona.

Mingyan Li, PhD 2006, Boeing Phantom Works, WA.

Intae Kang, PhD 2004, Samsung, Korea.

Javier Salido, MS 2006, Microsoft, WA.

Phillip Lee, BS 2006, PhD student at University of California, San Diego.

Shalaka Bhuskute, BS 2004, MS Stanford University, currently at Intel.

Lisa Hansen, BS 2004, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, CA.

Paul Liu, BS 2003, PhD student at University of California, Berkeley.