Congratulations to Jiamin and Peter!
30 November 2011Jiamin Chen and Peter Chapman have been recognized by the Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award. This is the premier national award for undergraduate researchers in computer science.
Peter was selected as the Runner-Up, and Jiamin Chen was selected as an Honorable Mention.
Congratulations to Jiamin and Peter!
[Added 9 Dec] Here’s the CRA Announcement:
Peter Chapman – Male Runner-Up
Senior at University of Virginia
Peter Chapman is a Senior at the University of Virginia majoring in Computer Science and Cognitive Science.
Computer security and privacy is a critical concern, especially when medical issues are involved. Peter developed a method for automatically searching web applications to find side-channel vulnerabilities in web applications. He applied new statistical tools to better describe these vulnerabilities. In the end, he determined that 88% of queries to Google Health could be recovered by an eavesdropping adversary.
Peter has also worked on secure computation, where parties collaborate on computing a function of two inputs without exposing the inputs to each other. He has proposed novel applications of secure computation in smartphones, and is working on an improved approach to mobile secure computation, relying on the network carrier to provide suitable streams of randomness.