Research Experience for Undergraduates* 1855 Broadway New York, NY 10023-7692 Email: nyitreu@gmail.com June 2 – August 9, 2013 Summer Research Internship at NYIT Manhattan Campus Application Deadline March 31, 2013 The NYIT REU Site at NYIT will provide opportunities for 10 motivated and talented undergraduate students (women and minority students are strongly encouraged to apply), to collaborate with NYIT faculty and graduate students in research on methods of securing smartphones and their networks using both hardware and software approaches. Undergraduates will gain hands-on research experiences in simulating the spread of malware on smartphones, implementing cryptographic algorithms and authentication schemes for smartphones, studying topology control of wireless networks, geolocating smartphones, detecting physical attack on a network of smartphones, and developing privacy-protected medical sensing methods using smartphones. Projects ------------ Wireless Network Topology Control Medical Data Collection Privacy Cryptography User Authentication Physical Capture Attack Smartphone Geolocation Smartphone Botnet Benefits ------------ $5,000 Stipend $600 Travel Allowance $2,800 Housing Allowance Graduate School Preparation Visits to state-of-the art labs, security centers, attend securityconferences, meet and network with security professionals, weekend outings in NYC Qualifications -------------- US Citizen or Permanent Resident Junior or above in ECE, CS or related field GPA of 3.2 or above Knowledgeable in C++, Java, or Matlab http://iris.nyit.edu/reu/ * Anticipated funding 2013