Bo Chen, computer science, was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure. Chen is director of the Secure and Privacy (SnP) Lab, and a member of the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems. He started at Michigan Tech in fall 2017.
Tenure and promotion are awarded in recognition of academic and professional merit. The tenure and promotion system is intended to attract capable and highly qualified faculty, enhance institutional loyalty, and encourage academic excellence.
Chen is the principal investigator of a new National Science Foundation grant award of $598,416, which aims to develop the first hardware-assisted self-repairing decentralized cloud storage system to defend against malicious attacks. Chen explains that a major and novel point of the research is to leverage the trusted hardware components to establish trustiness among the untrusted storage peers in the decentralized cloud.
“This is completely different from the existing approaches, which rely on blockchain and smart contracts, and require a large performance overhead,” he says.
The research will support two graduate students and several undergraduate students