Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence in Research Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (05/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students, with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Mikhail Gofman of Croton-On-Hudson, NY, who is pursuing studies in computer science, has received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Gofman was recognized for his strengths in security and experimental systems research, which has resulted in 10 co-authored published papers in top venues on security and verification that have garnered more than 60 citations. His focus is on access control policy analysis, information flow security, virtualization security and wireless sensor network activity. Together with three colleagues, Gofman has one patent pending. He is also the main developer of two tools – one for analyzing administrative role based access control policies and another for achieving privacy-aware virtual machine checkpointing – and he has invested tremendous effort to improve their performance.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.