Research Project
As a part of the assigned work for this course, we are requiring you to complete a group research project of your own choosing that is based on the material of this course. The premise of the project must be closely related to some aspect of the material but may explore an avenue that was left unaddressed in class.
In the group project, each group (three to four students) will focus on a topic and comes with a research/technical paper by the end of the semester. The topic should be on any specific security and privacy topic, but the expectation is to define a specific problem for in-depth investigation, coming up with a new solution (conceptual or practical application) and compare with similar other approaches extensively.
Your research project paper must include at least 15 articles from IEEE or ACM digital library and should follow IEEE format.
A good resource to search for journal and conference papers: https://scholar.google.com/
Note: this is a group assignment (a group of 3-4 students) and each group should write and submit their own individual and unique work. Plagiarism (the similarity score for your paper needs to be less than 25%) is a serious offense and could result in (at minimum) a zero for the assignment. Violators may also receive an F in the course and academic probation or suspension.
There are various types of projects you can consider:
- The project may be very practical in terms of applying techniques you have learned in the course to a real problem.
- The project may involve designing or adapting existing algorithms to a novel class of problems.
- The project may consist of a theoretical analysis of a method we have discussed.
Project Proposal
In order to help guide your choice of a project, we are requiring you to submit a brief proposal (at most one-page, 12-point font, single spacing, 1 inch margins) that describes the idea for a project, the work you intend to perform, and all the people involved in the project. In particular, it should identify the project type, the problem you plan to address, the motivation for why you find the problem important or interesting, any previous work you already know about, and a rough tentative approach to solving the problem (if applicable)
Final Report
In the final report, you shouldn’t just say what you did but also why it was a reasonable thing to do given the course material. The final report should include about four (4) pages of text (not including figures) in the IEEE conference template (Conference-template-A4.doc).
Short video about how to write a survey paper:
