Wade Trappe

News:

MIT Technology Review recently ran an article on ORBIT, the National Science Foundation Wireless Testbed initiative, for which I am a co-investigator

My colleagues and I recently received the 2005 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for our paper on Anti-collusion Fingerprinting of Multimedia.

My colleagues and I recently received the 2005 Best Paper Award from the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing for our paper on Group-Oriented Fingerprinting of Multimedia.

I am a member of the GENI Wireless Working Group and the Wireless Mobile Planning Group. Recently, I gave a talk on the wireless facilities envisioned for GENI at the CRA GENI meeting on March 10, 2006 in Arlington, VA.

We have recently filed a Rutgers University invention disclosure for our jamming-resistant wireless network prototype.

 

Note to Potential Students:

My policy regarding accepting research students: I tend to not accept MS students unless the MS student is very, very committed to research. Research is a long-term investment in time by the student and the advisor, and consequently Ph.D. students are preferred. If you are interested in joining my group, be prepared to go through a trial examination period. Finally, as I am both an ECE and a CS faculty member, I take students from both departments, and I look for a diverse set of talents. No matter what your background, I look for drive and motivation. Exceptional undergraduate students are welcome to contact me.

The Obligatory Bio:

I am an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rutgers University, and am affiliated with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB).

I am an applied mathematician by training and a Texan by birth... But fate has a way of taking us on interesting journeys, and I now live in a not-so-ivory-tower (the CoRE building is vaguely towerlike... but certainly not ivory!) on the East Coast. I spend most of my time in the strange limbo land between mathematics and engineering--it is a happy place, though the hours are often cruel... But that's what a good soy latte was meant for...

I am fortunate to have a team of strong students, and several outstanding colleagues. My group's recent focus has been to explore non-traditional approaches to security by re-examining the conceptual definitions of security and privacy. In order to devise new solutions, my group applies a mix of mathematical tools and experimental design. We are currently applying our philosophies to enhance the state-of-the-art in wireless security (particularly, in ad hoc and sensor network security), and multimedia security (particularly on issues related to multimedia fingerprinting and non-repudiation of media services).

My Curriculum Vitae is available here.

Contact Information:

WINLAB, Rutgers University

671 Rt. 1 South

North Brunswick, NJ 08902

 

Phone: 732-932-6857 ext 644

Fax: 732-932-6882

E-mail:

trappe {at} winlab.rutgers.edu