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Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT)
Director: Michael Silevitch, Director of the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research CenterALERT seeks to conduct transformational research, technology and educational development for effective characterization, detection, mitigation and response to the explosives-related threats facing the country and the world. The ALERT research program is driven by inspiring challenges such as ultra-reliable screening, explosives detection at a distance, or unequivocal pre- and post-blast mitigation. These challenges have defined [...]
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Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS)
Director: Michael B. Silevitch, Robert D. Black Professor of Electrical and Computer EngineeringThe Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems is a multi-university National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (NSF-ERC) founded in 2000. Its mission is to develop new technologies to detect hidden objects – and to use those technologies to meet real world subsurface challenges in areas as diverse as noninvasive breast cancer [...]
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George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security
Director: Steve Flynn, Codirector; Peter Boynton, CodirectorThe mission of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security is to advance resilience in the face of 21st century risks. The institute will foster collaborative, use-inspired research aimed at expanding the capacity of communities, critical systems, and infrastructure to withstand, respond to, and recover from manmade and natural catastrophes.
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Institute for Information Assurance
Director: Engin Kirda, Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor for Information AssuranceThe Institute for Information Assurance (IIA) is an interdisciplinary effort between the College of Computer and Information Science and the College of Engineering. The major goal of the Institute is to develop new cross-disciplinary methodologies to provide robust and reliable transmission of physically distributed information. We are working to provide information security within organizations and advisory [...]
Security
Northeastern faculty approach security issues from a range of perspectives, from preventing cyber-attacks on critical websites, programs, and databases, to developing sensing and imaging technology to identify and foil terrorist threats.These projects draw on faculty in engineering, psychology and criminology, physics, network science and computer science, marine biology, and biochemistry, collaborating with colleagues at universities, government agencies, security-based think tanks, and defense contractors across the globe.