Current Projects

Security, Privacy and Trust

Fake News and Disinformation (2019- Now)
Students:
Sirisha Bojjireddy, 2019- Current
Haejin Song, Summer 2019
Trolls and toxic contents in Social Media
Students:
Alen Chih Yuan (2019- )
Sumya (2019), Neten (2018-2019)

Concerns on COVID 19 Pandemic

Measuring Public Concern Levels during COVID-19
COVID 19 Trends (by US State, and by Country)
Public Concerns and Reactions to Social policies and government measures
Students: Mike Renda, Ricky Palaguachi, Alen Chih Yuan, Amir Toliyat

CARTA: Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics

Sponsor: NSF IUCRC, 7/2018-6/2023;

Smart City: Economic Development Policy Analytics
Identifying Privacy Risks in Social Media
(also sponsored by PSC-CUNY, 7/2016-12/2017)
News Classification
Crime Prediction and Analytics
Students:
Roshan Singh (2019-2020), Madhur Bhalkar (2019), Rohit Pathak (2018-2019), Avinash Paturu (2018-2019)

CHMPR: Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research

Sponsor: NSF IUCRC, 8/1/2016- 7/31/2021

Smart City: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Data Analytics
Smart City: Crime Visualization and Analytics
Data-Driven Risk Behavior Modeling
News Topic Modeling and Summarization

i-SECURE: Information Security Research and Education Lab

Sponsor: NSF, 2012-2015
Integrating learning resources for Information Security Research and Education

iSecure Lab
SOB: Security Ontology Browser
SOX: Security Ontology Development Expert Tool
SLOB: Cyber Security Learning through Ontology Browsing
FLOB: Fraud Ontology

Twitter Health Data Monitoring and Visualization

Sponsor: PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, 7/2012-6/2013.

Linked-SHR: Knowledge Graph for Social Health Records

Sponsor: PSC-CUNY Research Foundation, 7/2011-12/2012.

Discovering Alternative Treatments by Reasoning over a Health 2.0 Medical Knowledge Base
Social InfoButtons: Semantic Integration and Analytics Platform of Health 2.0 data

Situation-based Role Recommendation for Medical Emergency

Sponsor: PSC-CUNY, 2010-2011

Role Recommendation based on Social Crentials.
Situation-based Access Control for EHR

A Sensor Network-based Real-Time Flood Warning System

Sponsor: New Jersey Meadowlands Commission, 1/1/2009-6/30/2010.
Collaborators: Gotham Analytics

PEERS: Engaging Citizens to Crowdsource Emergency Response
Community Based Flood Management System Using Web 2.0

E-Participation and Transparent Policy Decision Making

Sponsor: None, 2009-2012
Collaborators: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Developing People Ontology and Semantic Search:

Collaborators: Manhattan University and NJIT
Prototype: OSWS: Ontology-supported Web Search for Famous People

Smart City projects

Collaborators: Rutgers Univeristy, CIMIC

Newark City Government's Twitter project:
SMART-C : Smart Citizen projects monitor emergency tweets, multimedia citizen messages for Emergency Management
UICDS - Unified Incident Command and Decision Support System

Past Projects

E-government

Human-Centered Business Services
- Funded by NSF 2000-2004, in collaboration with the New Jersey State Government PI: Dr. N. Adam, Rutgers University
- Prototype development for Decentralized Workflow Execution (with Pietro Mazzoleni), Nov 2000-May 2003
- Geospatial Workflow Customization for E-government Services (with V. Atluri, F. Artigas, & R. Holowczak), May 2001 - Nov 2001
- Prototype: Customized Visualization of GeoSpatial Government Regulations (with N. Adam, V. Atluri, F. Artigas, D. Guo, T. Bakirtas), Jan 2002 - May 2002
Spatially Integrated Coastal Permitting System (SICOP)
- Funded by NOAA Coastal Services Center (September 2002 - October 2003), PI: Bob Ceberio, NJMC.
- SICOP Prototype: Meadowlands Coastal Permit Assistant
- MERI Research Associate for Proposal preparation
Regional Technology Intiative for Municipal Governments
- funded by NJMC (New Jersey Meadowlands Comission) (PI: Nabil R. Adam), 7/1/2004-6/30/2005, 7/1/2004 - 6/30/2006
- in collaboration with 14 municipal governments
- Municipal Government Technology Survey
  - Participants: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Edwin Portscher
- CIMCOP: Constituent-centric Municipal Government Coalition Portal (2005-2006)
  - Participants: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Jack Dix, Dongho Kim
- NJMC and Meadowlands Municipal Governements Cooperative Equipment Sharing Program (2005-2006)
  - Participants: Mayank Jain, Sukhrita Sinha, Soon Ae Chun
Technology Transfer
- funded by NSF Digitial Government, PI: N. Adam (2004-2005), in collaboration with the New Jersey State Government
- CoPI: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Patrizia Fariselli, Yelena Yesha
- Research Associates: E. Portscher, V. Chopra

Web Service Composition and Semanic Web:

Policy-based Web Service Composition (with V. Atluri and N. Adam, 2003-date)
Ontology and pragmatic Knowlege for Semantic Web (with Y. Lee and J. Geller, 2003-date)
Context Model for Pervasive Semantic Web Services (with Y. Lee and J. Geller, 2003-date)

Geospatial Data Security and Privacy

Partially funded by NSF, PI: V. Atluri (2000-2006)
Geospatial Data Authorization Model (GSAM) (with V. Atluri)
GeoSpatial Authorization System (GSAS): GSAM Prototype
Students: Mukesh Sethi, 2003-2004

Environmental and Scientific Data Management

funded by NJMC (New Jersey Meadowlands Comission) (PI: Nabil R. Adam), 7/1/2004-6/30/2006
Participants: Vijay Atluri, Soon Ae Chun, Edwin Portscher, Pedro Pazevedo, Justin Dix, Vandana Chopra
Meadowlands Environmental Guide (7/1/2005-6/30/2006)
MERI Scientific Data Management and Integration (7/1/2004 - 6/30/2006)

Watershed and Water Quality Monitoring Education

Partially funded by EPA, PI: J. Erenfeld (Aug 2004-date)
Volunteer water quality monitoring system: data Database construction and Web construction
Participants: N. Adam, V. Atluri, S. Chun, J. Meiller, J. Der Bedrosian
Research Assoicates: S. Iyer, V. Chopra

Interagency Resource Sharing

NJMC and Meadowlands Municipal Government Cooperative Equipment Sharing Program
- Paula Speers, Bernie Nangle, Vince Rothenburger at NJMC
Eastern States Transportation Network
- Stephen Suder; Bruce Waltuck; Glenn Carney; Lynn Jordan
NJ Interagency Coordinating Committee (NJICC) Intranet
- with Stephen Suder, NJICC & Delaware River Port Authority and Dan and Tony Lopez, NJMC (July 2003 - date)
- Intranet for Interagency coordination on purchasing and information sharing
- Students: Pedro Azevedo, Shantharam Iyer

NASA Regional Application Center (RAC) Projects

With Dr. Francisco Artigas , September 1997 - 2003.

Satellite image database management , 1997-2000

Content-based Cloud Classification for Satellite Images using NEC image search system CDS (Compressed Domain Search) and NASA RAT (Rapid Application Tool), (with Harold Stone, F. Artigas, R. Holowczak, J. Cho), 1999-2000.

HMDC/ MERI Scientific Data and Metadata Management Project:

With V. Atluri, September 1998-2001.

SS-Tree Indexing and Web Query interface Implementation, Feb 2001-May 2001 (with Chiara Ghirardini)

Indexing experiment for Image database, Spring 2000-Spring 2001 (with Chiara Ghirardini and Dr. Ibrahim Kamel)

Privacy Issues on Geospatial High Resolution Images: 1999-2000

Digital Meadowland Project

With F. Artigas, R. Holowczak, and K. Barrett, May 1999 -2000.

Digital Meadowlands: Meadowlands environmental information system based on geographic locations. The repository contains environmental monitoring data (water, weather data), satellite images, maps, reports (documents) data in NJ Meadowlands area.

Geospatial Metadata Project

with Binto George and Francisco Artigas, March 1999 - July 1999.

Web-based Geospatial Metadata System: creation of geospatial data, and metadata-based retrieval system

Environmental Education Program Scheduling System

With Richard Holowczak , 1997-1998

NJMC Educational program scheduling and report generation system: deployed to HMDC (now NJMC) in January 1998,

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