Overview
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. I am also the co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory (SIIS), a research laboratory focused on the study of security in diverse network and computer environments.
My professional life is devoted to the pursuit of novel research in a broad array of areas of computer science (see below). As part of that pursuit I am fortunate to advise a number of exceptionally talented and committed graduate students, as well as participate in may rewarding professional service activities. This website documents many of these activities, but is not even close to exhaustive. If there is a something you wish to know or want more detail on information that is here, feel free to contact me directly.
The pages linked from the menu at the left cover broadly my research, teaching, and personal activities. Those wishing to speak to me in a professional capacity should contact me via email. Email is probably the most reliable way of contacting me (warning, responses may take a couple of days due to travel and other factors). My full contact information is:
Research interests: Network, Internet, telecommunications, and systems security, with interests in language-based security, voting systems, provenance, secure storage, cell phone operating systems and privacy.
Recent Teaching
- CSE598i - Web Security (Spring 2010)
- CSE543 - Computer and Network Security (Fall 2009)
- CMPSC443 - Introduction to Computer and Network Security (Spring 2009)
- CSE598 - Cell Phone Operating Systems (Spring 2009)
Students
Past PhD Students- Kevin Butler (2010), now Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
- Machigar Ongtang (2010), now Assistant Professor, Dhurakij Pundit University
- Patrick Traynor (2008), now Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Fr. Boniface Hicks (2007), now Assistant Professor, St. Vincent College
- William Enck (2011), Thomas Moyer (2012), Steve McLaughlin (2013), Devin Pohly (2014), Eunjung Yoon (2014), Damien Octeau (2014)
Recent Professional Activities
Editorial Activities- Editor-in-chief, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, September 2007-present.
- Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, June 2007-present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. January 2007-present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers. August 2008-present.
- Area Editor-Secure Systems, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. January 2009-present.
- Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- Program Committee, 2010 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
- Program Committee, 2010 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
- Program Committee, 2010 IEEE GLOBECOM
- Program Committee, 2010 ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
- Program Committee, 2010 USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET)
- Program Committee, 2010 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec)
- Program Committee, Information Security Research and Applications , 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
- Program Committee, 2010 World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
- Member, 2010 ACM Workshop on Cloud Computing Security
Professional Miscellanea/Highlights
- I am the co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory.
- I am a member of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), that serves as the technical advisory group of the United State Election Assistance Committee.
- I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Pennsylvania State University.
- I am an adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
- I was the co-chair of the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
- I was the principal investigator of the academic Everest team which analyized the voting eqiupment used in Ohio. The report can be retrieved here, and the team's commentary here.
- I was the chair of the 2005 USENIX Security Symposium.
- I am an alumnus of the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Research.
- I received my PhD from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan in December of 2001.
- As a doctoral student, I received the NASA, Kennedy Space Center Fellowship.
- My Erdös number is 3 (Paul Erdös--Fan Chung--William Aiello--Me).
- I started batch number 1341 at the Guinness factory in Dublin, Ireland on 22nd of June, 2007.