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Kevin R.B. Butler

  • Graduate Student
344 IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-6245

Education:

  1. M.S., Columbia University
  2. B.Sc., Queen's University

Biography:

Kevin Butler is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, and is the Lead Graduate Student of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Lab. He received his M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2003 and his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, in 1999. He is a past recipient of a University Graduate Fellowship as well as the C. Norwood Wherry Graduate Fellowship in Engineering at Penn State. Kevin has previously worked as a network operator at UUNET Canada in Toronto, Ontario, and as a research scientist in the Applied Research group at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown, NJ. He completed an extended internship in the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, NJ, working on efficient cryptographic constructions to secure Internet routing with Dr. Patrick McDaniel, now his advisor at Penn State. Kevin's research primarily focusses on systems and storage security. He has also closely examined security and policy considerations for interdomain routing, and has investigated issues in secure hardware, privacy, and worm propagation across the Internet and in wireless networks. Kevin has served on numerous program and organizing committees for conferences and workshops, and is the Submissions Chair for the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.