Assane Gueye
Associate Teaching Professor, CMU-Africa
Co-director, CyLab-Africa
Co-director, the Upanzi Network
Assane Gueye joined Carnegie Mellon University Africa on August 1, 2020. Prior to joining CMU-Africa, he was a faculty member at the ICT Department at the University Alioune Diop of Bambey, Senegal, where he also leads the research group “Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication pour le Développement” (TIC4Dev). Gueye also holds a guest researcher position with the National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
Assane completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley in March 2011. He received a master’s degree in 2004 in communication systems engineering from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
His research focuses in two main areas: performance evaluation and security of large-scale communication systems, and information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D). Assane is a Fellow of the Next Einstein Forum (Class of 2016). In 2019 he was nominated as a member of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) inaugural Fellow Class.
Education
2011 Ph.D, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
2004 M.S., Communications Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- Applications of security and privacy
- blockchain
- blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- communication systems
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- energy and critical infrastructure security
- ICT for development
- intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
- IoT security and privacy
- machine learning
- network security
- privacy
- protocol security
- security
- security education, awareness, and training
- systems security
Media mentions
CMU Engineering
CMU-Africa expands digital public infrastructure initiative
The Upanzi Network will fund research projects in Morocco, Botswana, and South Africa, with plans for additional partnerships.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
A honeynet infrastructure to battle SMS scammers
Bernard Odartei Lamptey from CMU-Africa's Upanzi Network hopes to combat mobile money scam transactions by collecting more data about smishing in order to develop ways that users can protect themselves.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
The Upanzi Network and MicroSave Consulting (MSC) announce Digital ID Hackathon Africa
The Upanzi Network and MicroSave Consulting (MSC) have launched a series of regional hackathons for African university students to identify new and innovative use cases of digital ID across the continent.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Navigating digital financial inclusion in Africa
As the presence of mobile phones becomes increasingly widespread in Africa, digital services have allowed for more financial inclusion among low- and middle-income countries within the continent. A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by Karen Sowon, a postdoctoral researcher at CMU’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, investigated these issues and recently published a paper on "The Role of User-Agent Interactions on Mobile Money Practices in Kenya and Tanzania."
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
picoCTF-Africa inspires participants to learn cybersecurity
picoCTF-Africa, now in its third year, helps participants improve their skills in vital cybersecurity disciplines.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers present research at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
CyLab faculty members and students presented their research on topics ranging from mobile money practices in Africa to uncovering and identifying side-channel and evasion attacks at the 45th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Business Day Nigeria
Gueye comments on the rise in electronic payment fraud in Business Day Nigeria
CMU-Africa’s Assane Gueye comments on the rise in electronic payment fraud in Business Day Nigeria. “We should be more intentional that these technologies will bring more good and not harm,” he says.
CMU-Africa
Gueye, Fanti selected for UN initiative
CMU-Africa’s Assane Gueye and ECE’s Giulia Fanti were named among a diverse group of experts to work on an initiative from the United Nations to develop a safeguards framework to guide digital public infrastructure (DPI) design and implementation around the world.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
CMU faculty selected for UN-led working group on DPI safeguards
Assane Gueye and Giulia Fanti have been selected by the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General Envoy on Technology to be part of a working group for the DPI Safeguards initiative.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Understanding the security of mobile apps in Africa
Researchers from CyLab-Africa and the Upanzi Network recently partnered with the mobile security provider Approov to explore the security of common financial services apps used across Africa.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Stakeholder collaboration in Rwanda’s digital transformation
CyLab-Africa and the Upanzi Network, AfricaNenda, and Rwanda Information Society Authority jointly hosted a digital public infrastructure and digital public goods stakeholder engagement workshop. This workshop served as a catalyst for collaborative efforts aimed at advancing Rwanda’s digital transformation.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Op-Ed: Building digital infrastructure for Africa, by Africa
Co-director of the Upanzi Open Digital Technologies Network and CyLab-Africa shares how universities on the continent are well positioned to solve several key challenges on the path to a digital future.