Triet Vo-Huu
PhD Student
- Security and user privacy
- Systems and networking
- Wireless networks and communications
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Northeastern University
- MS in Computer Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
About Triet
Biography
Triet Vo-Huu is a assistant research professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. While his research focuses on the security of wireless communications and networks, Vo-Huu is also interested in researching user privacy in mobile and cloud applications.
Vo-Huu and his team won the Cooperative Tournament in DARPA Spectrum Challenge 2013. His work on countering jamming attacks was awarded the Runner-up Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks 2013. Vo-Huu also received the 2013 Research Award from Khoury and 2015 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing Student Travel Award.
About Triet
Where did you grow up?
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
What are your research interests?
My research interests are the security of wireless communications and networks, with a focus on countermeasures against jamming threats ranging from high power attacks to rate adaptation and multi-carrier jamming attacks. I am also interested in user privacy in mobile and cloud applications.
What’s one problem you’d like to solve with your research?
As WiFi networks have become popular and ubiquitous today, privacy concerns are raised. My current work aims to understand the user privacy leakage due to the current design of WiFi networks and find efficient countermeasures to protect the user privacy.
What aspect of what you do is most interesting?
What is most interesting to me is that while today's wireless networks are deploying various mechanisms to protect user privacy, the side channel information — the physical characteristics of wireless signals — can still be exploited to learn personal user information. Both the attack and defense mechanisms are interesting and challenging.
What are your research or career goals?
My goals are to make wireless systems and applications safer and more efficient to improve the user experience.
