Patrick Gerard Traynor

Vita:

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Vita Highlights:

• I was the founding lead graduate student of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS) Laboratory (2005-2007).
• I am/have been a member of 12 Technical Program Committees, including the 2008 USENIX Security Symposium.
• I have been a reviewer for over 50 conferences, journals and workshops.
• I was awarded the Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association Dissertation Award - the most prestigious honor given to graduate students at Penn State.
• I have received the top awards given to Research Assistants (2007) and Teaching Assistants (2005) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State.
• I have taught lectures in 9 different courses.

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2008. Thesis Title: "Characterizing the Impact of Rigidity on the Security of Cellular Telecommunications Networks"

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2004. Thesis Title: "Probabilistic Unbalanced Key Distribution and Its Effects on Group Mobility in Sensor Networks"

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Richmond, May 2002.

Awards and Honors:

• Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association Dissertation Award, 2007
• Pennsylvania State University CSE Graduate Research Assistant Award, 2007
• IBM PhD Fellowship Finalist, 2007
• Pinch-Hitting Award, ACM/USENIX MobiSys, 2006
• Most Entertaining WIP Presentation , ACM/USENIX MobiSys, 2006
• AT&T Wireless Fellowship, 2005
• Pennsylvania State University CSE Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2005

Service

Program Committee Member:

• USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY): 2008
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2008
• Computer Security Architecture Workshop (CSAW): 2008
• IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS): 2008
• IEEE Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC): 2008
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Industry and Government Track (CCS I&G): 2006, 2007
• The Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec): 2006
• Second International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS): 2006
• IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security (WNS): 2006, 2007, 2008.

Panelist:

• Cellular Network Security Panel, USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY): (2007)

Conference Organization:

• Web and Proceedings Chair - Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec): 2006
• Web Chair - International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MOBIQUITOUS): 2006

Reviewer:

2008: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND), IFIP Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec), Journal of Security and Communication Networks (SCN), Financial Cryptography (FC)

2007: IEEE Communications Letters (CL), International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), IEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES), International Workshop on Security (IWSec), Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Usenix Security Symposium (SECURITY), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Journal of Wireless Networks (WiNet), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND), IEEE Sarnoff Symposium (SARNOFF), International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Financial Cryptography (FC), IEEE Infocom (INFOCOM), Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

2006: Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCM), International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (IWSSS), Journal of Wireless Networks (WiNet), ACM Computing Surveys (ACMCS), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), The Handbook of Computer Networks (HCN), IEEE GLOBECOM (GLOBECOM), Information Processing Letters (IPL), International Workshop on Security (IWSec), International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY), IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSIS), IFIP Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec), Emerging Trends in Information and Communications Security (ETRICS), International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technology (SACMAT), IEEE Conference on Communication Systems Software & Middleware (COMSWARE)

2005: International Conference on Cryptology in India (IndoCrypt), IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access (DySPAN), Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) , Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)

Work Experience

Graduate Research Intern Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ Summer 2006
Designed, developed and implemented a protocol for securely and accurately determining user location in a wireless network.

Research Assistant Penn State University, State College, PA 2005 - 2006
Led projects in cellular network security, applied cryptography, and secure network protocols.

Research Assistant Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State, State College, PA 2004.
Worked on the integration of mobility protocols into a sensor testbed.

Teaching Assistant Penn State University, State College, PA 2004
Instructed 150 undergraduates on the basics of computing. Awarded the CSE Graduate Student Teaching Award.

Assistant/Intern Network Administrator: Ceridian Corporation, Exton, PA 2000 - 2001.
Assisted with the daily maintenance of a corporate network and migrated the system from NT4 to Win2000.

Teaching Assistant University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 1999-2000
Assisted 50 students in the introductory and data structures classes in a lab setting.

Teaching Experience

CSE 598A: Introduction to Cryptography: Penn State University
Lectured on weaknesses in and attacks on WEP.

CSE 545: Advanced Network Security: Penn State University
Lectured on cellular network architecture, classical vulnerabilities and security concerns created by convergence.

CSE 543: Computer Security: Penn State University
Gave lectures on network security and telecommunications security.

CSE 514: Computer Networking: Penn State University
Gave lectures on networking basics, routing, fair queueing(FQ/WFQ) and random early detection (RED/WRED).

CSE 497C: Introduction to Computer and Network Security: Penn State University
Gave lectures on applied cryptography, secure network protocols and web security.

CSE/EE 458: Communication Networks: Penn State University
Gave lectures on MAC layer protocols, Manchester encoding, error correcting codes, broadcast and multicast.

CMPSC 203: Principles of Programming With Business Applications: Penn State University
Instructed 150 undergraduates on the basics of computing. Awarded the CSE Graduate Student Teaching Award.

CMSC 221: Data Structures with Lab: University of Richmond
Assisted undergraduates in an intermediate level programming class in a lab setting.

CMSC 150: Introduction to Computing with Lab: University of Richmond
Assisted undergraduates in the introductory level programming class in a lab setting.

Professional Affiliations

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
USENIX Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX)