October 29, 2003RUHSRI1 Homeland Security Research at Rutgers University Fred Roberts Chair, RUHSRI...

October 29, 2003 RUHSRI 1

Homeland Security Research at Rutgers

University

Fred RobertsChair, RUHSRIDirector, DIMACS [email protected]


Rutgers homeland security research arises from concerns about:

•Physical safety•Transportation•Food and water supply•The fundamental technologies underlying our economic system (communications, computing)•The very working of our modern societyThe RU Homeland Security Research Initiative (RUHSRI) is aimed at coordinating homeland security research at Rutgers.


Existing efforts at Rutgers in homeland security research are widespread and impressive.

Many could lead quickly to practical R&D programs and new business development and some already have.

We present a selection of relevant current research.


Outline of Projects at Rutgers

• Protecting the Critical Infrastructure

• Surveillance/Detection

• Responding to an Attack


PROTECTING THE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

•Transportation and Border Security

–Pattern recognition for machine-assisted baggage searches (Center for Advanced Information Processing: CAIP)–Border security: decision support software (Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connectivity: CIMIC)




–Statistical analysis of flight/aircraft inspections (Statistics Dept.)–Port-of-entry inspection algorithms (Center for Discrete Math. & Theoretical Computer Science: DIMACS; and CIMIC)




–Vessel tracking for homeland defense (Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies: IMCS)



•Communication Security–Resource-efficient security protocols for providing data confidentiality and authentication in cellular, ad hoc, and WLAN networks (Wireless Information Network Laboratory: WINLAB)–Exploiting analogies between computer viruses and biological viruses (DIMACS)



•Communication Security–Tunable, programmable, adaptive filters that can adapt to changing environmental conditions and offer a secure communications channel protected from interception by a hostile agent (School of Engineering)



•Communication Security–Information privacy:

•Privacy of healthcare data in syndromic surveillance (DIMACS)•Privacy-preserving data mining (Computer Science)•Legal issues surrounding privacy (Rutgers Center for the Study of Public Security: RCSPS)



•Food and Water Supply Security–Food and water biosecurity initiative (Cook College)–Agroterrorism: Using economic weapons to prevent agroterror attacks (Food Policy Institute, Dept. of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics)



•Food and Water Supply Security–Regional drinking water security consortium (CIMIC)–Remediating contaminated water (Environmental and Occupational Health and Sciences Institute: EOHSI)


SURVEILLANCE/DETECTION

•Biosurveillance/ chemosurveillance

–Adverse event/bioterrorist attack detection (DIMACS)–Pathogen detection (Terahertz (THz) wave imaging; detecting airborne anthrax particles) (School of Engineering)

Anthrax bacillus



•Biosurveillance/chemosurveillance

–Weapons detection and identification (dirty bombs, plastic explosives) (WISE Lab at CAIP)–Analysis of massive, high speed data for anomaly/outlier detection (Massive Data Analysis Lab, Computer Science)



•Biosurveillance/chemosurveillance–Intelligent question answering (interface between the intelligence analyst and data) (School of Information and Library Studies: SCILS)



•Biometrics–Face, gait, voice, iris recognition (CAIP, Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling - CBIM, Statistics Dept., SCILS)–Non-verbal behavior detection (lying or telling the truth?) (applications to interrogation) (SCILS/CBIM)



•Text Surveillance–Monitoring message streams for “new events” (DIMACS, SCILS, Statistics, Rutgers Center for Operations Research - RUTCOR)


SURVEILLANCE/DETECTION•Sensors

–Bioterrorism sensor location(DIMACS, EOHSI, Industrial Engineering, RUTCOR)

–Sensor networks to monitor bio/chem hazards (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

–Design of sensors (high sensitivity ZnO sensors; UV detection devices for bio-detection; nanoscale semiconductor sensors) (School of Engineering, WINLAB)

BASIS bioterrorism sensor


SURVEILLANCE/DETECTION•Using the Existing Infrastructure

–Using a comprehensive network of environmental monitoring stations providing real-time observation from over 100 stations distributed throughout NJ to provide homeland security monitoring (Office of NJ State Climatologist in Geography and Cook College)–Using an existing high frequency radar network on the water for port security (IMCS)

BASIS bioterrorism sensor


RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK

•Exposure/Toxicology–Modeling dose received–Rapid risk and exposure characterization–Toxicology of WMD’s(All at EOHSI)


RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK•Evacuation

–Simulating evacuation of complex transportation facilities (Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation)–Plume modeling to determine areas of risk (EOHSI)–Handling patients before ER admission (EOHSI)


RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK•Cleanup

–Monitoring and control for chem/bio attack emergency response (EOHSI)–Air and water purification systems (School of Engineering)–Decontamination of areas affected by chem/bio weapons (School of Engineering, EOHSI)–Emergency scene management (EOHSI)


RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK •Emergency Communications

–Infostations for rapid wireless communication for first responders (WINLAB)–Rapid networking at emergency locations (DIMACS)–Rapid “telecollaboration” (CAIP)


RESPONDING TO AN ATTACK •Emergency Communications

–Risk communication methods

(DIMACS, Sociology, Human Ecology and the Center for Environmental Communication at Cook, DIMACS, the Rutgers Center for the Study of Public Security (RCSPS), and the Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Preparedness.


STRENGTHS AT RUTGERS

•Many of the projects described are already receiving external funding.

•Many are highly interdisciplinary.

•There is already substantial partnership with other NJ universities, NJ industry (small and large) and NJ government agencies of all kinds.


Toward the Future• A large number of

Rutgers faculty is involved.

• The faculty looks forward to playing an important role in protecting the security of our State, Nation, and World.

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