Ronen Vaisenberg
Rescue Project
Donal Bren School of Information & Computer sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine CA 92697-3425
Background
I am currently persuing a Ph.D at the University of California, Irvine in the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences. My advisor is Prof. Sharad Mehrotra.
Currently, I focus on problems related to the management, extraction and fusion of information from multiple media sources. This area relates the the following established fields: databases and data management, time series data management, statistical databases, model building and classification applied in the context of media (text,image,video) processing. Specifically, I'm interested in the issues related to the data management supprt for sentient systems, for various first responding and life preserving applications funded by the Rescue Project.
Before I joined Prof. Sharad Mehrotra's research group, I had worked with Prof. Ehud Gudes and Dr. Yuval Elovici for 2 years, the main research topic is secure data management, specifically: database encryption. My previous research experience includes Private and Secure data management, efficient service oriented processing on untrusted co-processors (see master's Thesis and Patent).
Currently, I'm partly accosiated with the privacy research group and we are working on problems that relate to privacy/security concerns that arise when sentient systems start "observing people". Specifically, we work on an information theoretic framework under which both the detection of policy violators and unexpected events is possible while the privacy of users being tracked in the phisycal world is preserved (a polite big brother).