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Mohammad Zulkernine Awarded Funding for ORF-RE Project

Dr. Mohammad Zulkernine was awarded research funding support as a co-applicant on the Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellent (ORF-RE) project CyPreSS: Software Techniques for the Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems. The project is led by Dr. Kostas Kontogiannis from Western University, and includes collaborators from the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto, and York University.

Dr. Zulkernine’s current research team at the Queen’s Reliable Software Technology Laboratory (QRST) Group focuses on building reliable and secure software systems for cloud, connected vehicles, mobile operating systems, and internet of things.

Click on the link to the QRST group website below to learn more about their research projects:

https://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/qrst/

Queen’s Reliable Software Technology Lab Scores a Big Funding Win

The Queen’s Reliable Software Technology (QRST) Lab has just received a funding boost from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).

The funding will be used on a project titled “A Security Analytics Framework for Attack Detection and Prevention in Smart Aging Care Systems”.

The project provides a much-needed analysis on how smart home systems can be used securely in elder care facilities, such as nursing homes. The function and expenditure of aging care systems can be drastically improved by smart home software and hardware, but these systems can be particularly vulnerable to attacks. As with most computer vulnerabilities, this issue is most easily addressed before it happens, in the form of detection and prevention systems.

The funded research from the QRST Lab seeks to create such a system, using advanced vulnerability assessment, machine learning and monitoring techniques to detect and prevent common and unknown threats.

This project provides the backbone for smart systems to be used in a meaningful way in health care systems.