Prof.
George Kesidis
CSE
and EE Depts
338J
IST Building, CSE Dept (office), 115 EE West (lab)
The
Pennsylvania State University
University
Park, PA, 16802, USA
Email:
gik2 at psu dot edu
Phone:
814-865-9190
Degrees:
Ph.D. (1992) and M.S. (1990) in Electrical Engineering &
Computer Science (EECS), U.C. Berkeley
B.A.Sc. (1988) in Electrical Engineering, University of
Waterloo, Canada
Active
Research Projects:
AFOSR DDDAS: Active Learning over a Network
Based Dynamic Data Driven Applications System for Anomaly Detection and Class
Discovery.
D.J. Miller (PI), G. Kesidis (co-PI)
Cisco System Ltd URP: Online Active Learning for Classification and Zero-Day Exploit Discovery in Large-Scale Datasets.
G. Kesidis (PI), D.J. Miller (co-PI)
DARPA XD3: Democratizing DDoS
Defense using Secure Indirection Networks.
G. Kesidis (PSU co-PI), A. Stavrou
(PI) and D. Fleck (GMU), D. Rubenstein and V. Misra
(Columbia co-PIs), BAE Systems
NSF NeTS:
Competition, Neutrality and Service Quality in Cellular Wireless Access.G. Kesidis (PSU PI),
in collaboration with S. Sarkar of U. Penn.
Cisco Systems URP: Low-latency detection of networks with fast-flux both in IP address proxies and in domain names.
G. Kesidis (PI) and D.J. Miller (co-PI)
G. Kesidis (PSU PI) and
D.J. Miller (PSU co-PI); K. Levitt, J. Rowe, D. Raphson, J. Bushnell, A. Scaglioni (UC Davis PI and co-PIs)
Completed
Research Projects:
Cisco System Ltd URP: Unsupervised flow-level clustering in network routers for anomaly detection.
D.J. Miller (PI) and G. Kesidis (co-PI)
NSF NeTS: Collaborative Research: Inter-provider dynamics in neutral and non-neutral networks.
G. Kesidis (PSU PI), in collaboration with S. Sarkar of U. Penn.
NSF EAGER: GENI Experiments to Explore Adoption of New Security Services.
G. Kesidis (PSU PI), K. Levitt, J. Rowe and S.F. Wu (U.C. Davis PI and co-PIs).
NSF NeTS: Collaborative Research: Supporting unstructured peer-to-peer social networking
G. Kesidis (PSU PI), in collaboration with G. de Veciana of U.T. Austin.
NSF NetSE: Unsupervised flow-based clustering
G. Kesidis (PI) and D.J. Miller (co-PI)
Cisco Ltd URP: Per-flow state management in Internet routers: mass purging and heavy-hitter detection
G. Kesidis (PI), C. Das (co-PI)
NSF Cyber Trust and Cyber Infrastructure: Router Models and Downscaling Tools for Scalable Security Experiments
G. Kesidis (PSU PI), in collaboration with S. Fahmy of Purdue and N. Shroff of Ohio State.
DHS/NSF Cyber Trust: Collaborative Research: Testing and benchmarking methodologies for
future network security mechanisms (EMIST)
Joint grant with DHS/NSF DETER project
URLs: http://emist.ist.psu.edu and http://www.isi.edu/deter
PSU and overall PI: G. Kesidis, PSU co-PIs: P. Liu, P. McDaniel, D.J. Miller
Cisco Ltd URP Simulation of Secure Internet Routing Protocols
G. Kesidis (PI), D.J. Miller (co-PI)
Cisco Ltd URP Diagnostics and real-time traceback of DDoS attacks in the Internet
PI: G. Kesidis
Some
Past Service Activity:
IEEE SmartGridComm 2014 – Data Management and
Grid Analytics Symposium TPC co-chair (Nov. 2014)
Intermittent Expert for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Secure
and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program (March 2012
– Jan. 2014)
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
evaluator (2012 – 2013)
SecureComm, London, Sept. 2011 (TPC co-chair)
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (associated editor until 2007-2012)
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (associate editor until 2007-2010)
IEEE INFOCOM, May 6-12, 2007, Anchorage (TPC co-chair)
Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models in Wireless Networks, April 16, 2007, Cyprus (TPC co-chair)
Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), Boston, Nov. 6, 2005
Workshop on Economics of Communication Networks, Montreal, July 2004
Graduated
Ph.D. students:
Anthony Hung
* Dalia Fayek (Univ.
Guelph, Canada) †
Athichart
(Ink) Tangpong
Pushkar Patankar (Palo Alto
Networks)
Jisheng
Wang (Niara)
Ihab
(Ethan) Hamadeh (Cisco Systems)
Yanxin
Zhang (Palo Alto Networks)
* Azin Neishaboori
Glenn
Carl (Lincoln Labs MIT)
Paul
B. Jeon (Samsung, Korea)
Rajesh N. Rao (Airvana, Bangalore, India)
* Xidong Deng (Center for Disease Control, Atlanta)
SungwonYi
(ETRI, Korea)
* Youngmi Jin (KDDI, Tokyo)
Soranun
(TJ) Jiwasurat (National Research Lab, Thailand)
Yaman Aksu
*
Chu-Fang Lin
Aditya
Kurve (Pindrop Security)
Fatih Kocak (Google)
Jayaram Raghuram (Pindrop Security)
Current
Ph.D. students:
Jianping
He (Snapchat)
Zhicong
(Jason) Qiu
* Neda Nasiriani
Yuquan
Shan
* Xinyi Hu
Yujia
Wang
* woman Ph.D. graduate or
Ph.D. student in CE, CS or EE