CSE and EE Depts
W367 Westgate Building, CSE
Dept
The Pennsylvania State
University
University Park, PA, 16802,
USA
Email: gik2 at psu dot edu
Phone: 814-865-9190
Degrees:
Ph.D. (1992 – Networking and
Performance Evaluation) in EECS, University of California at Berkeley –
advisor: Jean Walrand
M.S. (1990 – Machine Learning
and Stochastic Optimization) in EECS, U.C. Berkeley - advisor: Eugene Wong
B.A.Sc. (1988) in Electrical
Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
Book on secure and robust
neural networks:
Active Research Projects:
Adversarial AI –
recent papers
NSF CPS: Clustering, Auto-Encoding, and
Generative Modelling of 3D Object Representations for Manufacturing.
G. Kesidis (PSU PI), D.J. Miller (co-PI)
NSF CNS: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: Rethinking Multi-User VR - Jointly Optimized Representation, Caching and Transport
G. Kesidis
(PSU PI), S. Fahmy (Purdue PI) and V. Popescu (Purdue co-PI), G. de Veciana (UT Austin PI)
Cisco
Systems Ltd Gift: Adversarial
Learning Towards a Comprehensive Framework to Secure Deep Learning.
G. Kesidis (PI), D.J. Miller (co-PI)
NSF
CNS: Principled Methodologies and Systems Support for Automated Cost-Effective
Service Blending in the Emerging Public Cloud
B. Urgaonkar (PI), G. Kesidis and M. Kandemir
(co-PIs)
Completed Research
Projects:
Facebook Research Award: Virtual Reality Support at the Edge Cloud
S. Fahmy & V. Popescu (Purdue), G. Kesidis
NSF
CCF: Cross-layer Design for Cost-Effective HPC in the Cloud
M. Kandemir (PI), G. Kesidis and B. Urgaonkar
(co-PIs)
Navy ROTC Projects on Cyber
Security: Adversarial AI/ML
G.
Kesidis and D.J. Miller (PIs)
Cisco Systems Ltd Gift: Online Active Learning for Classification and Zero-Day Exploit Discovery in Large-Scale Datasets.
G. Kesidis (PI), D.J. Miller (co-PI)
AFOSR DDDAS: Adversarial
Learning & Active Learning.
D.J. Miller (PI), G. Kesidis (co-PI)
NSF CSR: Using Burstable
Instances For Cost-Effective Tenant Orchestration in
the Public Cloud.
B. Urgaonkar (PI), G. Kesidis (co-PI)
DARPA XD3: Democratizing DDoS
Defense using Secure Indirection Networks.
G. Kesidis (PSU co-PI), A. Stavrou (PI) and D. Fleck
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 Gift: 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)
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:
NSF Workshop on
Cloud Economics, Stanford – invited speaker (May 2018).
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 †
Athichart (Ink) Tangpong
Pushkar Patankar
Jisheng Wang
Ihab (Ethan) Hamadeh (Palo
Alto Networks)
Yanxin Zhang
* Azin
Neishaboori
Glenn Carl (Lincoln Labs,
MIT)
Paul B. Jeon (Samsung, Korea)
Rajesh N. Rao
* Xidong
Deng (Center for Disease Control, Atlanta)
SungwonYi (ETRI, Korea)
* Youngmi Jin (Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea)
Soranun (TJ) Jiwasurat
Yaman Aksu
* Chu-Fang Lin
Aditya Kurve
(Amazon)
Fatih Kocak (Meta)
Jayaram Raghuram
Zhicong (Jason) Qiu †
Arnab Das (APL)
* Neda Nasiriani
(JP Morgan)
Yuquan Shan (Meta)
* Xinyi Hu
Ata Fatahi
Baarzi (LinkedIn)
Zhen Xiang (UGA)
Hang Wang (Meta)
Current Ph.D. students:
Nader Alfares
* Xi Li (UAB)
Aakash Sharma
* Guangmingme
Yang
* woman Ph.D. graduate or Ph.D. student in CE, CS or EE