Guevara Noubir

Professor

College of Computer and Information Science

Northeastern University

Phone: +1 617 373 5205

Email: lastname AT CCS DOT NEU DOT EDU

RESEARCH:

1. My research focus is on wireless communications systems in cooperative and adversarial environments. I am interested in both theoretical and practical aspects of secure and robust wireless communication systems. We are currently working on three main directions:
   

1. ★ Open Infrastructure is a wireless networks research framework that aims at leveraging residential broadband networks and routers to enable ubiquitous wireless access, and data storage in an efficient, reliable, low power, and low cost. It leverages several mechanisms such as social networking authentication, low power ZigBee radios, links bonding. Let us know if you are interested in joining our measurement network.
   

2. ★Robust Wireless Systems against Smart Attacks is a coordinated set of activities developing fundamental mechanisms to thwart attacks on wireless networks. Our paper analyzing the robustness of rate adaptation won the ACM WiSec’11 best paper award.
   

3. ★Interfacing with biological material at the nanoscale. We organized an NSF Workshop on the topic in July 2011.
   

SHORT BIO:

I received my PhD in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne ( EPFL 1996) and my engineering diploma (MS) from École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées at Grenoble (( ENSIMAG 1991). Prior to joining Northeastern University in 2001, I was a senior research scientist at CSEM SA (Switzerland) where I led several research project and contributed to the definition of the third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) standardized as 3GPP WCDMA. I held visiting research positions at Eurecom, MIT, and UNL. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, and a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

TEACHING:

1. I enjoy developing new courses that expose the students to fundamentals concepts both algorithmic and domain specific, with system building. I am currently teaching:
   

1. ★Spring'12 - CS4700 & CS5700 (Fundamentals of Computer Networks): covers the fundamental conceptual, algorithmic, and practical aspects of networked systems.
   

2. ★Spring'12 - CS6710 (Wireless Networks): covers the fundamentals of wireless communication systems, today's systems, and emerging trends. The course has several small projects and a large project.
   

1. Some previous courses:
   

2. ★ Secure Wireless Ad hoc Robots on Mission (SWARM) exposes the students to the concepts underlying the design of robust and secure heterogeneous wireless networking of mobile robots (i.e., Internetworking, Security, Wireless Communication, Embedded Development, Mobile Phones Platforms).Teams design and build rescue-mission oriented heterogeneous wireless systems operating in adversarial environments... [ Check Movie]
   

3. ★ SWARM Extreme a special topics course in networking. Check the movie where students wirelessly control a flying quadcopter with their thoughts using a Brain Computer Interface.
   

RANDOM:

1. ★We organized an NSF Workshop on biology and wireless communications in July 2011.
   

2. ★Our paper analyzing the robustness our rate adaptation won the ACM WiSec’11 best paper award. Congratulations Bishal!
   

3. ★My students made it to the top 20 (our of over 1800 teams) in google’s Android Developers Challenge. Congratulations Tao and Yin!
   

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

1. Our research has been supported by DARPA, Draper Labs, NSF, Microsoft Research.