• About Me
• Research
• Publications
• Coursework
• Personal

About Me

For the first ten years of my life I grew up in Ashland, Illinois which was a town of 1500 people. From age ten till college I lived in Springfield, Illinois. For my undergraduate education, I attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and obtained a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics. In the Fall of 2009, I entered the PhD program of the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University with Cristina Nita-Rotaru as my advisor.

Research

My research interests include distributed systems and security. In the past, I investigated distributed algorithms for improved coverage performance in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) and UnderWater Sensor Networks (UWSNs). Currently, I am involved in various projects on secure network coding and also a project on open smartphone markets.

Publications

Journal Articles

• A. Newell and K. Akkaya, "Distributed Collaborative Camera Actuation for Redundant Data Elimination in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", in Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 9, no. 4, 2011, pp. 514-527.

• K. Akkaya and A. Newell, "Self-Deployment of Sensors for Maximized Coverage in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks", in Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, vol. 32, no. 7, 2009, pp. 1233-1244.

Conference Papers

• A. Newell, R. Curtmola, and C. Nita-Rotaru, "Entropy Attacks and Countermeasures in Wireless Network Coding", to appear in the Proceedings of the Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), April 2012.

• R. Pothara, A. Newell, C. Nita-Rotaru, and X. Zhang, "Plagiarizing Smartphone Applications: Attack Strategies and Defense Techniques", to appear in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS), February 2012.

• A. Newell and K. Akkaya, "Self-Actuation of Camera Sensors for Redundant Data Elimination in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", in the Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2009. Slides

• A. Newell and K. Akkaya, "Providing Multi-Perspective Event Coverage in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks", in the Proceedings of Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2010.

Coursework

The following are graduate courses I have completed at Purdue.

• CS 502 Compilers
• CS 503 Operating Systems
• CS 505 Distributed Systems
• CS 536 Data Communication and Computer Networks
• CS 541 Databases
• CS 543 Simulation and Modeling
• CS 555 Cryptography
• CS 571 Data Mining
• CS 580 Algorithms
• CS 626 Advanced Information Assurance

Personal

Outside of school, my fiance, Ilse, and my dog, Jade, are a big part of my life. We got Jade, a Great Dane, as a puppy during the Fall of 2010. I am getting married to Ilse on my 24th birthday in March of 2012. In my free time, I like to do running, cycling, and basketball.