UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics announced that Dr. Mohamed Shehab, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems, has been selected to receive a Google Research Award.  Dr. Shehab received $55,000 for his research proposal, “Third Party Application Policy Management in Social Networks”. The project will investigate policy management mechanisms, to provide recommendations to aid users when deciding on privacy policies related to social network applications. The proposed policy recommendation mechanisms will be developed and integrated in current state of the art authorization architectures.

The Google Research Awards program is aimed at identifying and supporting world-class, full-time faculty, pursuing research in areas of mutual interest with Google.