Office hours
My office is room 3140 of the Klaus Advanced Computing Building. My hours for fall 2008 are TBA.
Research interests
System and software security, intrusion detection, attack analysis, static program analysis, virtualization.
Bio
I am an Assistant Professor who recently joined the Georgia Tech College of Computing in Fall 2006. I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2006, where I was a Wisconsin Distinguished Fellow. Also at Wisconsin, I received my B.S. degree in Mathematics in 2000 and my M.S. degree in Computer Sciences in 2002.
I enjoy research in software security, operating system security, and attack analysis. My research builds upon techniques from program analysis, formal methods, and operating systems to retrofit security to insecure systems and software. I investigate both defensive systems and attacks against those systems. On the defensive side, I design new intrusion detection systems that prevent anomalous program execution by constraining execution to a model of expected execution behavior derived from static program analysis. To evaluate the ability of intrusion detectors to actually detect attacks, I then attack the detectors. Formal analysis of the detectors provides insight into their true attack detection capability and illuminates weaknesses requiring continued research into intrusion detection.
I am a member of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC).
I chair the Georgia Tech Institue-level committee on Student Computer Ownership.
Current Students
- Ikpeme Erete
- Monirul Sharif (co-advised with Wenke Lee)
- Abhinav Srivastava
Previous Students
- Neel Mehta, with IBM/ISS
- Frank Park, joined GT Ph.D. program.
- Alkesh Shah, joined VMware.
Oddities
- I was once a monorail pilot at Walt Disney World.
- I once had to be taken by ambulance to a hospital because I was run over by a parade float.
- I hold a black belt in taekwondo.
- My Erdös number is 4.
- I am a descendant of Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers.