Computer System Security Center (SSC)

Today, the exponential increase in algorithm complexity and data size places ever greater demands on the efficiency of computation, storage and communication.  At the same time, the proliferation of computing into all aspects of society and the digitalization of our personal identities requires software to be secure against bugs, attacks and information leakage.  ShanghaiTech’s Systems and Security Center addresses these modern computational challenges through the development of novel parallel algorithms to accelerate complex calculations, new systems for accessing massive datastores, efficient and secure communication protocols, and the protection of our digital safety through verifiably secure and privacy preserving computations.  In addition, through collaborations across a number of domains, we aim to bring our theories and tools to bear on a variety of important scientific problems toadvance the state of the art in computer science and beyond.