2014 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives Award presented to team led by Professor Jun Li
An interdisciplinary team led by CIS Prof. Jun Li has been awarded the 2014 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) award, sponsored by the Office of Research, Innovation & Graduate Education (RIGE) of the University of Oregon. The team includes Colin Koopman (Philosophy), Xintao Wu (UNC Charlotte), Eric Priest (Law), Zhibin Yang (Business), Kevin Butler (CIS), and Dejing Dou (CIS).
Internet privacy has reached an unprecedentedly high level of risk. Protecting Internet privacy, however, is a daunting task as there are many open problems in almost every domain. Technically, the Internet is yet to become robust against traffic eavesdropping, hijacking, and various forms of tempering, as well as sophisticated techniques such as traffic analysis and de-anonymization that can be applied to violate user privacy. Legally, the rapid advance of techniques is causing a sea change in nearly every information privacy law. Economically, it is often elusive to evaluate the cost that privacy enforcement or violation may bring to consumers and businesses. And lastly, from the social perspective, every netizen must find ways to take control over their personal information.
The Internet privacy team recognizes the great opportunity and challenges to study Internet privacy, an unquestionably critical problem. The goals include conducting interdisciplinary research on Internet privacy; build a critical mass of faculty and graduate students at UO dedicated to Internet privacy study; and develop a set of promising privacy-related techniques.