I'm currently advising one Ph.D. student,
Julien Piet,
and in the past I served as a Ph.D. advisor or co-advisor for students
at a number of institutes:
- Shehar Bano
(Characterization of Internet censorship from multiple perspectives, Cambridge; now at Facebook)
- Weidong Cui
(Automating Malware Detection by Inferring Intent, UC Berkeley; now at Microsoft Research)
- Holger Dreger
(Operational Network Intrusion Detection: Resource-Analysis Tradeoffs, Technical University of Munich, now at Siemens)
- Jose Maria ("Chema") Gonzalez
(Efficient Filtering Support for High-Speed Network Intrusion Detection, UC Berkeley; now at Facebook)
- Grant Ho
(Thwarting Sophisticated Enterprise Attacks: Data-Driven Insights and Methods, UC Berkeley; now at University of Chicago)
- Mobin Javed
(Detecting Credential Compromise in Enterprise Networks, UC Berkeley; now on the faculty at LUMS)
- Jaeyeon Jung
(Real-Time Detection of Malicious Network Activity Using Stochastic Models, MIT; now at Samsung)
- Frank Li
(Remedying Security Concerns at an Internet Scale, UC Berkeley; now at Georgia Tech)
- Gregor Maier
(Residential Broadband Internet Traffic: Characterization and Security Analysis, Technical University of Berlin; now at NetDebug)
- Bill Marczak
(Defending Dissidents from Targeted Digital Surveillance, UC Berkeley; now at CitizenLab)
- Austin Murdock
(Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanning, UC Berkeley; now at SixMap)
- Ruoming Pang
(Towards Understanding Application Semantics of Network Traffic, Princeton; now at Apple)
- Paul Pearce
(Methods and Systems for Understanding Large-Scale Internet Threats, UC Berkeley; now at Georgia Tech)
- Philipp Richter
(Empirical Analysis of the Effects and the Mitigation of IPv4 Address Exhaustion, Technical University of Berlin; now at Akamai)
- Justin Samuel
(UC Berkeley; now at his startup Less Bits)
- Robin Sommer
(Viable Network Intrusion Detection in High-Performance Environments, Technical University of Munich, now at our startup Corelight)
- Kurt Thomas
(The Role of the Underground Economy in Social Network Spam and Abuse, UC Berkeley; now at Google)
- Matthias Vallentin
(Scalable Network Forensics, UC Berkeley; now at his startup Tenzir)
- Yin Zhang
(Characterizing end to end Internet Performance, Cornell; now at UT Austin)
Biography
I received my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California,
Berkeley, and have been (and continue to be)
a staff scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory's
Network Research Group
for many years.
I began at the
networking group
of the
International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
in 1999.
Some of my main active research projects are
CESR
and
Bro.
The former reflects a continuation of my extensive collaboration with
Stefan Savage,
Geoff Voelker,
and their research group at UC San Diego.
My professional activities include:
Some former activities:
Last modified: February 2017
