Peng Liu

Research Interests
Systems Security and Survivability, Network Security, Database Security, Privacy
 
Biography
Peng Liu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China, and his Ph.D. degree from George Mason University in 1999. Dr. Liu is an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology and director of the Cyber Security Lab at Penn State. His research interests are in all areas of computer and network security. 

He is the founding program co-chair of the ACM Workshop on Survivable and Self-Regenerative Systems. He is the proceedings chair of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2004 and 2003. He is a program committee member of over thirty-five international conferences and workshops, including ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), INFOCOM, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), and the World Wide Web Conference (WWW). He is a referee for over twenty journals, including the ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security and the Journal of Computer Security. He is on the editorial board of Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces Journal. 

Dr. Liu has published a book and about 100 refereed technical papers. His research has been sponsored by DARPA, NSF, DOE, DHS, AFRL, AFOSR, NSA, CISCO, HP, Japan JSPS, and Penn State. Dr. Liu is a recipient of the DOE Early CAREER PI Award. More information about Peng Liu can be found athttp://ist.psu.edu/s2. 
 
Selected Publications

1. X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu. August 2006. SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker. Proceedings of the Fifteenth USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY 2006). 16 pages. Vancouver, Canada.


2. Yu, M., P. Liu, W. Zhang. March 2004. Self Healing Workflow Systems under Attacks. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004). pp. 418-425. Tokyo, Japan.


3. Liu, P., W. Zhang. October 2003. Incentive-Based Modeling and Inference of Attacker Intent, Objectives and Strategies. Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. pp. 179-189. Washington, D.C.


4. Ammann, P., S. Jajodia, P. Liu. September 2002. Recovery From Malicious Transactions. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering 15(5):1167-1185.


5. Liu, P., S. Jajodia, C. D. McCollum. 2000. Intrusion Confinement by Isolation in Information Systems.Journal of Computer Security 8(4):243-279.