Nasir Memon
Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
- Phone: (718) 260-3970
- Email: memon@poly.edu
- Location: 10.095 (2 MetroTech Center, 10th Floor)
- Website:
http://isis.poly.edu/memon
http://www.facebook.com/evilproffy
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nmemon
http://www.digital-assembly.com
Education
University of Nebraska, Class of 1992
Ph. D., Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Class of 1982
Master of Science, Mathematics
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Class of 1982
Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Experience
Polytechnic Institute of NYU
Professor
From: September 1998 to present
Northern Illinois University
Assistant Professor
From: August 1994 to June 1998
Arkansas State University
Assistant Professor
From: August 1992 to August 1994
Courses Taught
Discrete Mathematics (MA 2312) Computer Security - CS 392 Information Security & Privacy - CS 681 Network Security - CS 393
Research Interests
- Data Compression
- Image and Video Processing
- Digital Forensics
- Computer and Network Security
- Multimedia Computing and Security.
Awards + Distinctions
- Jacobs Excellence in Education Award. Polytechnic University, 2002.
- ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation. International Standards Organization, 2002. For Contributions to the JPEG-LS standard.
Patents
Context-based, Adaptive, Lossless Image Codec. , (US Patent 5,903,676)
Coder matched layer separation for compression of compound docum, (US Patent 7,150,003)
Grants
Video Summarization, (Principle Investigator)
Video Delivery Over Wireless Channels, (Principle Investigator)
Steganalysis Techniques For Images And Audio, (Principle Investigator)
Steganalysis of Digital Watermarking Techniques, (Principle Investigator)
Source Camera Identification, (Principle Investigator)
Image Forensics, (Principle Investigator)
Hardware Based Intrusion Detector, (Principle Investigator)
Graphical passwords: design, analysis and human factors, (Co-Principle Investigator)
ForNet: A Distributed Network Forensics System, (Principle Investigator)
Computing with Untrusted Code, (Co-Principle Investigator)
Capacity Building Project in Info Assurance Education, (Co-Principle Investigator)
Audio Steganalysis Techniques, (Principle Investigator)
An Optimized Proxy-Based Architecture for Wireless Web Access, (Principle Investigator)
An Algorithmic Study of Optimal Multi-resolution, (Co-Principle Investigator)
A Hardware/Compiler Co-Design Approach to Software Protection, (Co-Principle Investigator)
Software Watermarking, (Principle Investigator)
Biography
Nasir Memon is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) laboratory at NYU-Poly. His research interests include digital forensics, data compression, and multimedia computing and security.
Memon earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science in Mathematics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India in 1981. He received a Master of Science in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska in 1989 and 1992, respectively.
He has published over 250 articles in journals and conference proceedings and holds more than a dozen patents in image compression and security. He has won several awards including the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award and the Jacobs Excellence in Education Award from NYU-Poly. He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on research and education grants exceeding $15 million.
He has appeared on NBC Nightly News as an expert on steganography and his research has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Review, Wired.Com, and New Science Magazine.
He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer’s (IEEE) Transactions on Information Security and Forensics ad on the editorial board of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. Memon is the co-founder of Digital Assembly and Vivic Networks, two early-stage start-ups in NYU-Poly's business incubators.
He is n IEEE fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the years 2011-12.