NECST Lab - Novel, Emerging Computing System Technologies
Activities
NECSTLab (Novel, Emerging Computing System Technologies Laboratory) is a laboratory inside DEIB department of Politecnico di Milano (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria). It is a real uncommon place where research meets teaching and teaching meets research, also through academics and industrials events.
In particular, we do have the perception that a close connection between research and education has to be pursued to properly prepare our students. Research and education is perceived as a dichotomy. It has often been hard to couple them in a productive and virtuous cycle but we do believe that Research can obtain great benefits from Teaching and the other way around and this basic principle is at the basis of the NECSTLab. In particular, involving young students in research activities will heavily increase the creative and brainstorming phase of a research group. Students are not yet constrained in a research framework and they are not scared by the idea of trying and failing to see their ideas coming reality through their work.
On the contrary, from an educative point of view, giving the students the chance to be involved in real projects will mean giving them the chance to experience real design and development challenges and by guiding them during the design and development we can, in a maieutic way, teach them how to approach real life projects.
In such a context it is necessary to provide to the students and the researchers an environment where they can work and experiment a motivating experience.
It is exactly at this point that the NECSTLab plays a key-role with its activities and where we are trying to find partners interested in helping us in meeting our vision.
NECSTLab research is focused in two main research areas.
The first one is the System Architecture one, with three research lines: DReAMS where the focus is on the definition of methodologies and software frameworks supporting the development of hardware-software system for reconfigurable systems; ORCA that research on computer architecture and operating systems that are able to observe their own execution and adapt their behavior with respect to external environment and STeeL, devoted to smart ambient design and personal comfort monitoring systems.
The second research area is System Security that comprises 4 major research lines: MaTA that focuses on the analysis of malicious software (malware) to identify their behavior and propose novel defense mechanism; FraudSec that uses machine learning techniques to model the behavior of a user from historical data to detect fraud; MoSec that studies malware and attacks targeting mobile devices and proposes solutions to analyze and detect such threats and, finally CyPhy focusing on studying attacks, as well as developing novel defenses, for cyber-physical systems.
In particular, we do have the perception that a close connection between research and education has to be pursued to properly prepare our students. Research and education is perceived as a dichotomy. It has often been hard to couple them in a productive and virtuous cycle but we do believe that Research can obtain great benefits from Teaching and the other way around and this basic principle is at the basis of the NECSTLab. In particular, involving young students in research activities will heavily increase the creative and brainstorming phase of a research group. Students are not yet constrained in a research framework and they are not scared by the idea of trying and failing to see their ideas coming reality through their work.
On the contrary, from an educative point of view, giving the students the chance to be involved in real projects will mean giving them the chance to experience real design and development challenges and by guiding them during the design and development we can, in a maieutic way, teach them how to approach real life projects.
In such a context it is necessary to provide to the students and the researchers an environment where they can work and experiment a motivating experience.
It is exactly at this point that the NECSTLab plays a key-role with its activities and where we are trying to find partners interested in helping us in meeting our vision.
NECSTLab research is focused in two main research areas.
The first one is the System Architecture one, with three research lines: DReAMS where the focus is on the definition of methodologies and software frameworks supporting the development of hardware-software system for reconfigurable systems; ORCA that research on computer architecture and operating systems that are able to observe their own execution and adapt their behavior with respect to external environment and STeeL, devoted to smart ambient design and personal comfort monitoring systems.
The second research area is System Security that comprises 4 major research lines: MaTA that focuses on the analysis of malicious software (malware) to identify their behavior and propose novel defense mechanism; FraudSec that uses machine learning techniques to model the behavior of a user from historical data to detect fraud; MoSec that studies malware and attacks targeting mobile devices and proposes solutions to analyze and detect such threats and, finally CyPhy focusing on studying attacks, as well as developing novel defenses, for cyber-physical systems.
Service information
The laboratory is located at the DEIB (Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering), building 20, via Ponzio, 34/5. Entrance is allowed during the department’s opening hours.
