Wu Wins Invention of the Year Award

Min Wu, professor of electrical and computer engineering with appointments in UMIACS and the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2), is the winner of the annual Invention of the Year competition coordinated by the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization.

Wu, who took home the prize in the in competition's information science category, identified a method to extract Electrical Network Frequency (ENF) signals from videos recordings of complex and realistic scenarios to verify the source of video streams, offering possibilities for a variety of security and forensic applications. She worked with research assistants Adi Hajj-Ahmad and Hui Su.

Assistant professors Charalampos "Babis" Papamanthou and Elaine Shi, both of whom hold appointments in UMIACS and MC2, won the competition in the information science category last year for developing a technology that allows users to store secure data in the cloud, and then retrieve it in a way that provides proof it has not been tampered with.