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Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Boston University
111 Cummington St
Boston, MA 02215

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, and a member of the BU Security Group. My research focuses on finding practical solutions to problems in network security, by leveraging formal techniques from cryptography and game theory. Prior to joining BU, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England. In July 2009, I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University, advised by Jennifer Rexford and Boaz Barak. My thesis focused on Internet measurement in the presence of adversaries and routing security (or see these slides). During my Ph.D., I spent time with the crypto group at IBM Research and interned at Cisco Research. I also organized various events for women in science and engineering, including this and this.

• Technology Diffusion in Communication Networks, with Zhenming Liu. February 2011.     working paper    
• Let the Market Drive Deployment: A Strategy for Transitioning to BGP Security, with Phillipa Gill and Michael Schapira. SIGCOMM 2011. Also presented at NANOG 52.     project page     extended abstract     full version     interactive results browser     NANOG slides     video from a colloquium at Microsoft Research
• How Secure are Secure Interdomain Routing Protocols? with Michael Schapira, Pete Hummon, and Jennifer Rexford. SIGCOMM 2010. Also presented at NANOG 49.     full version     slides     video from Microsoft Techfest 03/2010     video (wmv) from NANOG 06/2010

• CS558 - Network Security (Spring 2012)
• CS237 - Probability in Computing (Fall 2011)
• CS237 - Probability in Computing (Spring 2011) - Website on Blackboard
• CS591 - Seminar in Network Security (Fall 2010)

• Kyle Brogle (BU undergraduate)
• Phillipa Gill (visited from U of Toronto Oct'10 - Feb'11)
• Jef Guarente (co-advised with Leo Reyzin)
• Robert Lychev (visiting from GATech, Aug'11 - Feb'12)
• I also frequently collaborate with Richard Skowyra.

Applications:     I am always looking for motivated students and postdocs interested in network security. If you are interested in my research or the BU Security Group, and are already at BU, please enroll in my network security course in Spring'12. Otherwise, apply to the graduate program in Computer Science at Boston University.

Program Committee:    SIGCOMM 2011   |    NetEcon 2011   |    CoNEXT Student Workshop 2010   |    HotCloud 2010   |    NetEcon 2010   |    NetEcon 2009  

Attendee:     SIGCOMM 2011  |    NANOG 52  |    Innovations in Algorithmic Game Theory Workshop  |    TCC 2011  |    SIGCOMM 2010  |    EC 2010  |    Workshop on Economics of Info Security 2010  |    NANOG 49  |    SIGCOMM 2009  |    Crypto in the Clouds Workshop 2009  |    FOCS 2008  |    SIGCOMM 2008  |    USENIX Security 2008  |    SIGMETRICS 2008  |    Eurocrypt 2008  |    CoNEXT 2007  |    FOCS 2007  |    Grace Hopper 2007   |    Optical Fiber Communications: OFC 2007   |    IPAM: Securing Cyberspace   |    Fields Institute: Foundations of Cryptology   |    SIGCOMM 2006  

Local Seminars:     BU CS Reading Group  |    systems security @ MIT  |    MIT/MSR crypto seminar

Currently supported by two NSF awards from the Trusted Computing program, and a gift from Cisco.