Dr. Rob D’Ovidio
Criminal Justice Program
 
My current research centers around computer crime and digital forensics  and is funded through a United States Department of Justice Edward Byrne Grant.  This is a multi-university grant, involving Drexel, East Stroudsburg, and Rider Universities.  There are multiple research projects under the grant across the three partner universities. Additionally, we are developing education and training programs in computer crime and digital forensics.  
 
I am the principle investigator for all work being done at Drexel under this grant.  The grant involves Drexel faculty from Criminal Justice, Anthropology, Psychology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Management.
 
I have substantive and administrative responsibility for the following Drexel research projects under this grant:
 
  1. •Deviant Communities Online - An Examination of Adult-Child Sex Advocacy Websites: This project examines how adult-child sex advocacy groups use the Internet to transfer knowledge (including security information) and for command and control purposes in furtherance of crimes involving the computer-facilitated sexual exploitation of children.  
 
  1. •Electronic Crime Education and Training Needs Assessment: The Electronic Crime Education and Training Needs Assessment is designed to gather data on the educational and training needs of law enforcement officers who are involved with the investigation of electronic crimes.  Understanding these needs is essential to the development of curricula that prepare current and future law enforcement personnel to investigate and prevent electronic crime.   This survey contains questions about employment history, educational background, training background, and experience with investigating electronic crimes.
 
I have administrative responsibility for the following Drexel research projects under this grant:
 
  1. •IP Fax Forensics and Eavesdropping: The goal of this project is to develop methodologies and tools to trace fax transmissions and detect the manipulation of fax information sent over an IP network.(Chief Investigator - Dr. Moshe Kam)
 
  1. •Reverse Engineering Software Forensics: To develop processes and tools to facilitate authorship identification for computer source code by creating digital fingerprints based upon authorship characteristics. (Chief Investigator - Dr. Spiros Mancoridis)
Current Research Projects