I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining UNC, I was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. And before that, I was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.

Program Committees (I’ve been involved with recently):

    USENIX Security Symposium (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005)

    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2008, 2007)

    Network & Distributed System Security (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

    International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (2009, 2005)

    Information Security Conference (2008, 2007)

    USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (2008)

    IEEE Biometrics Symposium (2008)

Research Interests and Selected Papers

    Traffic classification (albeit encrypted or anonymized)

    Network security (malware classification and modeling)

    Biometric key generators

    User authentication

    Applied crypto and privacy

Teaching

    Advanced Network Security (JHU)

    Network Security

    Compute and Network Forensics (JHU)

    Special Topics in Computer Security

Students that I’ve been fortunate enough to work with:

     Lucas Ballard (Google)

     Scott Coull  (JHU)

     Seny Kamara (Microsoft Research)

     Josh Mason (JHU)

     Sophie Yu Qiu (Cisco)

     Moheeb Rajab (Google)

     Sam Small (JHU)

     Charles Wright (MIT Lincoln Labs)

     Jay Zarfoss (L3 Communications)

Now on to the important stuff  :-) My twins girls are the joy of my life. In my free time I try to get in as much scuba diving as I can, which sadly only happens about once a year. My wife and I are from St. Lucia, and most of our family lives there (yeah, I know, what are we doing here?). If you are looking for a great get-away spot, drop me an email and I'll be happy to give you suggestions on what to do once you get to St. Lucia.