Education

The Pennsylvania State University, Present

Pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science
Research Area: Systems Security
Advisor: Dr. Patrick McDaniel

The Pennsylvania State University, May 2006

M.S. degree in Computer Science, GPA: 4.00
Thesis: Analysis of Open-Functionality in SMS-Capable Cellular Networks
Advisor: Dr. Patrick McDaniel

The Pennsylvania State University, May 2004

B.S. in Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.97
Honors in Computer Engineering
Thesis: Study of Adaptive Routing Algorithms for NoC Architectures
Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Chita R. Das

Academic Appointments

Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Summer 2007

EE/CSE 458, Communication Networks

Research Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Spring/Fall 2006, Spring 2007

Funded by AT&T Research, Advised by Dr. Patrick McDaniel.
Research and development of the PRESTO automated router configuration utility.

Research Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Summer/Fall 2005

Advised by Dr. Patrick McDaniel
Systems Security research in telecommunications security, network security, and trusted computing.

Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, Spring 2005

Supervised by Dr. Lee Coraor
Teaching Assistant for CSE473, Microcomputer Laboratory. Aided students in hands on embedded systems developement.

Industrial Appointments

Research Intern, AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, Summer 2006

Supervised by Albert Greenberg.
Research and development of the PRESTO automated router configuration utility

Summer Intern, IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY, Summer 2003

Supervised by Paul Minear
Worked with the zSeries SCE design team updating UE injection/verification scripts.

Systems Administrator, Lebanon MobileFone Inc., Lebanon, PA, Summers 2000-2002 and 2004

Supervised by Steve Yingst.
Special Projects Programmer and Computer Technician. Performed Corporate and residential installation of wireless broadband equipment. Implemented user per user SPAM detection at gateway level as Special Projects Programmer. Repaired computers and offered technical support to customers as Computer Technician.

Publications

See the publications page.

Teaching

Graduate Courses

• CSE543 - Computer and Network Security (Guest Lecturer, Fall 2005)
• Trusted Computing - 75 minutes
• OS Security - 75 minutes

Undergraduate Courses

• CSE/EE 458 - Communication Networks (Instructor, Summer 2007)
• Developed course syllabus, designed homework and exams
• CSE473 - Microcomputer Laboratory (Teaching Assistant, Spring 2005)
• Hands on instruction throughout the sememster

Awards, Honors, and Scholarships

• USENIX Association Student Travel Stipend, 2007, 2008
• Honorable Mention for the 2006 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
• 2003 Recipient of the H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Scholarship
• 2002 Recipient of the Chris Mader Scholarship
• 2002 Recipient of the Lockheed Martin Engineering Scholars Award
• 2001 Recipient of the Richard A. McQuade Memorial Scholarship

Professional Activities

Program Committees

Member - Fourth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP'09)
Member - Third International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS'07)

Reviewer

2008: ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), IEEE Communications Letters, Workshop on Virtual Machine Security (VMSec), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), USENIX Security Symposium, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technology (SACMAT), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND), International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)

2007: International Workshop on Security (IWSec), Transactions on Software Engineering, USENIX Security Symposium, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND), Financial Cryptography (FC), IEEE Infocom (INFOCOM), Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

2006: Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), International Workshop on Security (IWSec), USENIX Security Symposium, Emerging Trends in Information and Communications Security (ETRICS), ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technology (SACMAT)

2005: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)

Professional Affiliations

• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• USENIX Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX)