SPLICE: Securing the lifecycle of Smart Homes

Our homes are increasingly embedded with “Smart Things,” networked with each other and with the Internet, forming “Smart Homes.”

What happens when an occupant moves out or transfers ownership of her Smart Home? How does an occupant identify and decommission all the Things in a home before she moves out? How does a new occupant discover, identify, validate, and configure all the Things in the home he adopts? What interface can enable lay people to manage these complex challenges, and be assured of their privacy, security, and safety?

We present a list of key research questions to address these important challenges, then give an overview of results from our own collaborative research project, SPLICE: Security and Privacy in the Lifecycle of IoT in Consumer Environments.

Speaker bio

David Kotz is the Pat and John Rosenwald Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College and, for academic year 2025-26, a Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at Imperial College London and a Visiting Professor at University College London. As a tenured member of the Dartmouth faculty, he served more than two decades in administrative roles as Provost, Associate Dean, and center director. His current research involves security and privacy in smart homes and wireless networks. He has published over 270 refereed papers, received 12 patents, obtained $89m in grant funding, given over 200 invited lectures, and mentored over 100 research students and postdocs. He is a AAAS Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an elected member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich (2019-20) and a Fulbright Fellow to India (2008-09). He received his AB in Computer Science and Physics from Dartmouth in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991.

You can learn more about Professor Kotz here.

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