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.
