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Michael Payne has been promoted to Lead Data Engineer on the Tickets Data Engineering team at Cirium. Michael will continue to be a contributor on the team but will take on additional responsibilities in people management and team organization. Michael holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, an M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina A&T University.  He was recruited into the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Clemson in 2013, where he worked under the direction of Dr. Amy Apon.

A comprehensive privacy policy analysis of voice applications on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant platforms by Clemson researchers has received recognitions from both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant teams. The results show that a substantial number of problematic privacy policies exist in these two mainstream voice assistant platforms. Google awarded the team a bug bounty for reporting the discovery.

The faculty team of Drs. Hongxin Hu, Feng Luo, Long Cheng, Hai Xiao, and Rong Ge are tackling the problem of detecting malware in the Internet of Things through non-intrusive and Deep Learning-based methods on power side channels. The vulnerability of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to malware attacks poses huge challenges to current Internet […]

Computer Science PhD student Robert Underwood is tackling the critical problem of moving and storing the ever growing volume of data produced in things like physics and climate simulations, intelligent transportation systems, and medicine, by using compression to reducing the volume of data as it is moved and stored. His work makes a type of […]