"Three Grove School Faculty Join $12 Million Google Cybersecurity Research Project"
The City College of New York is participating in a $12 million Google initiative aimed at boosting the cybersecurity ecosystem and positioning New York City as the global leader in cybersecurity. Other institutions involved in the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program include CUNY, Columbia University, Cornell, and New York University. Rosario Gennaro, Nelly Fazio, and Samah Saeed are three faculty members from The City College's Grove School of Engineering who are among the $12 million grant beneficiaries for advanced research. Gennaro and Fazio are conducting research together. They will work on developing new and more efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs, which are used to protect the privacy and integrity of computations performed on data distributed over networks. The project scope includes new cryptographic schemes, resistance to quantum computing advances, and more. Saeed's research focuses on identifying new techniques for hiding information/gates in quantum circuits. Findings from this research will inform the development of a lightweight security application to prevent the illegal distribution of quantum circuits at a low cost by using information hiding. This article continues to discuss the cybersecurity research of the Grove School experts participating in Google's $12 million cybersecurity research program.