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Nirupama Bulusu, assistant professor of Computer Science in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, has received a five-year $450,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. “I was really excited to receive this award.” said Bulusu, “It provides a significant boost to my research activities.”

Bulusu’s proposal, “Towards Trustworthy Participatory Sensing”, focuses on providing trust to a grassroots approach to sensor data collection and sharing through a pre-existing communication infrastructure, such as the Internet. Such a data-collection approach can benefit many urban sensing applications, including intelligent transportation. Undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students will have the opportunity to assist Bulusu with her research. The proposal also includes outreach through educational demonstrations at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

Bulusu and her research team will investigate the design and implementation of a trustworthy participatory sensing system, including solutions for certifying the integrity of published sensory content, so users can trust it; sensory content protection, so more users contribute data, and anonymous content sharing between users. These solutions will be based on the use of a novel trusted-hardware platform.

Nirupama Bulusu joined the Computer Science department in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University in September of 2004.

The Faculty Early Career Development award is one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career development of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education.