Guevara Noubir
(he/him)
Professor, Executive Director of Cybersecurity Programs
Research interests
- Theory and practice of privacy and security
- Robustness of networked systems
Education
- PhD in computer science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne — Switzerland
Biography
Guevara Noubir is a professor and the executive director of cybersecurity programs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He is also the principal investigator of Northeastern University’s NSA/DHS-designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity.
Noubir's research covers theoretical and practical aspects of privacy, security, and robustness in networked systems. Before joining Northeastern, he held research and visiting positions at CSEM SA, EPFL, Eurecom, MIT, and UNL.
Noubir received the NSF CAREER Award in 2005, the Google Faculty Research Award on Privacy in 2016, the Northeastern University Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award in 2018, best paper awards at ACM WiSec in 2011 and 2018, and a best paper award at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security in 2016. In 2020, he was awarded a grant by the Office of Naval Research to identify vulnerabilities in 5G cellular systems and to develop solutions that bolster resiliency, security, and privacy, with potential benefits for commercial systems and the Department of Defense.
Noubir led Northeastern's winning teams in the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge in 2017 and 2018. He also led Northeastern’s winning team in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge collaborative scenario in 2013.
Noubir has chaired the technical program committee of several security conferences, including both ACM WiSec and IEEE CNS in 2015. He also served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Computer Networks, and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Noubir's research has been funded by BAE Systems, DARPA, Draper Labs, Microsoft Research, NSA, NSF, and Raytheon.
Recent publications
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Establishing Trust in the Beyond-5G Core Network using Trusted Execution Environments
Citation: Marinos Vomvas, Norbert Ludant, Guevara Noubir. (2024). Establishing Trust in the Beyond-5G Core Network using Trusted Execution Environments CoRR, abs/2405.12177. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.12177 -
On the Implications of Spoofing and Jamming Aviation Datalink Applications
Citation: Harshad Sathaye, Guevara Noubir, Aanjhan Ranganathan. (2022). On the Implications of Spoofing and Jamming Aviation Datalink Applications ACSAC, 548-560. https://doi.org/10.1145/3564625.3564651 -
DEFORM: A Practical, Universal Deep Beamforming System
Citation: Hai N. Nguyen, Guevara Noubir. (2022). DEFORM: A Practical, Universal Deep Beamforming System CoRR, abs/2203.09727. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.09727 -
Towards an AI-Driven Universal Anti-Jamming Solution with Convolutional Interference Cancellation Network
Citation: Hai N. Nguyen, Guevara Noubir. (2022). Towards an AI-Driven Universal Anti-Jamming Solution with Convolutional Interference Cancellation Network CoRR, abs/2203.09717. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.09717 -
A Billion Open Houses for Eve and Mallory: MitM, DoS, and Tracking Attacks on iOS and macOS Through Apple Wireless Direct Link
Citation: M. Stute, S. Narain, A. Mariotto, A. Heinrich, G. Noubir, M. Hollick, "A Billion Open Houses for Eve and Mallory: MitM, DoS, and Tracking Attacks on iOS and macOS Through Apple Wireless Direct Link", in Usenix Security Symposium, 2019, [Full Paper PDF]. -
Wireless Attacks on Aircraft Instrument Landing Systems
Citation: Harshad Sathaye, Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, and Guevara Noubir. (2019). "Wireless attacks on aircraft landing systems: demo". In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 295–297. DOI: 10.1145/3317549.3326298 -
Mitigating Location Privacy Attacks on Mobile Devices using Dynamic App Sandboxing
Citation: S. Narain, G. Noubir, "Mitigating Location Privacy Attacks on Mobile Devices using Dynamic App Sandboxing", in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS), 2019, [Full Paper PDF]. -
Security of GPS/INS based On-road Location Tracking Systems
Citation: S. Narain, A. Ranganathan, G. Noubir, "Security of GPS/INS based On-road Location Tracking Systems", in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2019, [Full Paper PDF]. -
BaPu: Efficient and Practical Bunching of Access Point Uplinks
Citation: T. Jin, T. D. Vo-Huu, E.-O. Blass, and G. Noubir, "BaPu: Efficient and Practical Bunching of Access Point Uplinks", in Proceedings of Networked Systems, NETYS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2015 -
Toward Robust Hidden Volumes using Write-Only Oblivious RAM
Citation: E.-O Blass, 1.E.-O. Blass, T. Mayberry, G. Noubir, K. Onarlioglu (2014). “Toward Robust Hidden Volumes using Write-Only Oblivious RAM”, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’14) -
On the Capacity of Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links under Jamming
Citation: K. Firouzbakht, G. Noubir, M. Salehi (2014). “On the Capacity of Adaptive Packetized Wireless Communication Links under Jamming”, in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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Norbert Ludant
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Hai Nguyen
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Amirali Sanatinia
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Sashank Narain
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Triet Vo-Huu