Internship Programmes
 
Making Sense of Network Messages

Discipline: Computer Engineering / Computer Science / Electrical Engineering preferred

Project Description:
Background.  Have you ever played online games, and wondered what the underlying traffic looks like? In general, the ability to characterise and automatically understand network messages is important for intrusion detection.

Objectives.  The objective is to research on and develop techniques to automate part of the process of making sense of network messages. The candidate will get to explore and develop new statistical / data mining techniques on network traces towards this objective.

Deserving candidates who successfully demonstrate the concepts/prototype would be funded to attend a relevant overseas/local conference.

Pre-requisite:
Non-technical
- Natural sense of curiosity, like to spend time outside curriculum requirements to explore how things work.
- Self-driven to learn things that are not taught
- Strong independent thinking and initiative - like to think about what needs to be done and propose a plan without waiting for instructions

Technical
- Basic Networking knowledge
- Background in probability / statistics / data mining