Julio Ramirez
Project: Security & Functionality in IoT Devices Through SmartWall
Mentors: Blase Ur & Nick Feamster, SUPERGroup & Department of Computer Science/Center for Data & Computing
Research Area Keywords: Machine Learning & AI // Internet of Things // Security & Privacy
Project Description: Julio Ramirez is a senior at Northside College Preparatory High School, and previous intern in the 2019 CDAC Summer Lab program. This summer, he continued worked on two projects: one with Prof. Blase Ur in the SUPERGroup Lab where he helped design an evaluation study for a Jupyter Notebook plugin created to help people who develop machine learning models better understand the data they use to train their model; and a second one with Prof. Nick Feamster where he installed smart devices at home and collected packet captures while implementing firewall rules generated for those devices, examining how the rules impact a device’s functionality and security. In his final video, Julio speaks to the second project on functionality and security in IoT devices.