Security and Privacy for Robots and Brains
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Dr. Tamara Bonaci
University of Washington
Tamara will present her recent work on security and privacy of biomedical cyber-physical systems. She will focus on two questions: (1) how do human idiosyncrasies open these systems for exploitations and attacks, and (2) how can we leverage human uniqueness to personalize these systems, but also to make them more security – and privacy-preserving and enhancing. In addressing these questions, two technologies will be presented: brain-computer interfaces and teleoperated robots. She will show how brain-computer interfaces can currently be misused to extract private information about users based on their EEG signals. Information about her novel bio-authentication method will be presented, leveraging haptic information between human operators, and haptic-enabled devices.
Speaker Bio
Tamara Bonaci received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, focusing on security and privacy issues of cutting-edge cyber-physical systems. She is a lecturer at the same university, where she is also involved in an effort to commercialize a component of her dissertation work. Tamara’s research interests include security and privacy of cyber-physical systems, human-computer interaction, robotics, and analysis of a human’s electrophysiological and bio-signals.