Wichita State professors win cybersecurity research grant

The National Science Foundation awarded a $380,000 grant to two Wichita State University professors to investigate cybersecurity and privacy issues for wearable devices.

Jibo He, assistant psychology professor, and Murtuza Jadliwala, assistant electrical engineering and computer science professor, will start their three-year project this fall.

With the recent boom in smartphone and wearable devices – such as smartwatches, fitness trackers and smart glasses – information security threats and privacy concerns are becoming critical issues for consumers, information technology companies and application developers, said Jadiwala, director of WSU’s Security, Privacy, Trust and Ethics in Computing Research Lab.

The grant will be primarily used to support graduate students, especially doctoral candidates, working alongside them. Some of the money will pay for travel to conferences to present research results, buy wearable device equipment for research and for costs related to experiments involving volunteer participants.

This story was originally published September 1, 2015 at 11:15 AM with the headline "Wichita State professors win cybersecurity research grant."