February 2, 2004

Ning Receives NSF Career Award for Sensor Network Security Research

Dr. Ning

Dr. Peng Ning, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 1, 2005, through June 30, 2010. The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

The NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years to support Ning’s research project entitled, "Career: Towards Trustworthy and Resilient Sensor Networks." Because sensor networks are ideal for a wide range of security applications, such as the monitoring of critical infrastructures, Ning's project objective is to develop practical techniques for building trustworthy and resilient sensor networks as well as instructional materials that convey these new techniques. His research activities will focus on broadcast authentication, trustworthy and resilient clock synchronization, and light-weight and collaborative intrusion detection in sensor networks.

In 2001 Ning received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University and joined the faculty in the College of Engineering at NC State. His research interests are mainly in computer and network security. He is particularly interested in new techniques for security in sensor and ad hoc networks as well as intrusion detection.

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(Photo: Roger Winstead)

Media contact:
Kathi McBlief, (919) 515-2283, kathi_mcblief@ncsu.edu

Technical contact:
Dr. Peng Ning, (919) 513-4457, pning@ncsu.edu

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