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My research focus is on security management, telecommunications security, policy modeling, and public and technology issues in online media. This following links describe some of my ongoing research activities. More detailed information about my historical research can be obtained from the publications, vita and laboratory webpage My research publications My students My recent research related professional activities Note: The Ohio Secretary of State has released the EVEREST election system report from the academic team. The report can be retrieved here. The team prepared the following statement about the report and its findings, and will make no other public statements at this time.

Professional miscellanea/highlights

• I am the co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory.
• I am the editor-in-chief of the Journal ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT).
• I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at Pennsylvania State University.
• I am an adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
• I am the associate editor of the Journal ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC).
• I am the associate editor of the Journal IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
• I am the co-chair of the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
• I was the principal investigator of the academic Everest team which analyized the voting eqiupment used in Ohio. The report can be retrieved here, and the team's commentary here.
• I was the chair of the 2005 USENIX Security Symposium.
• I am an alumnus of the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Research.
• I received my PhD from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan in December of 2001.
• As a doctoral student, I received the NASA, Kennedy Space Center Fellowship.
• I have an Erdos number of 3 (Paul Erdos--Fan Chung--William Aiello--Me).
• I started batch number 1341 at the Guinness Beer factory in Dublin, Ireland on 22nd of June, 2007.

Below is a list of my current and past students. There is a complete list of the many students I have advised in the past on my vita page.

Students Advised

Past PhD Students

• Fr. Boniface Hicks, Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2007, now Assistant Professor, St. Vincent College
• Patrick Traynor, co-advisor, Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2008, now Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Current PhD Students

• Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2009
• William Enck, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2009
• Machigar Ongtang, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2009
• Luke St. Clair, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2010
• Thomas Moyer, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2011
• Steve McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2012

Past Masters Students

• Lisa Johansen, Pennsylvania State University, expected Spring 2008
• Sunam Ryu, M.S., Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2007
• Dhananjay Bapat, M.S., Pennsylvania State University (Electrical Engineering), Fall 2006
• Jennifer Plasterr, M.Eng., Pennsylvania State University, Summer 2006
• Adam Kerr, M.Eng., Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2006
• William Enck, M.S., Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2006
• Wesam Lootah, M.S., Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2006
• Jon Hansford, M.Eng., Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2005
• John van Bremer, M.Eng., Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2005

Past Undergraduate Honors Students

• Tim Misiak, Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2007
• Kiyan Ahmadizadeh, Schreyer Honors College, Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2006

Below is a number of research-related panel, program committee and journal bodies I am currently involved with. For a complete list of my past and present professional service within the scientific community, see my professional vita.

Current journal related activities

• Editor-in-chief, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, September 2007-present.
• Associate editor, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, June 2007-present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. January 2007-present.

Current conference and panel related activities

• Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2008.
• Program Committee, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2008.
• Program Committee, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2009.
• Program Committee, USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), 2008.
• Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2008.
• Program Committee, ACM Conference on ASIA Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS), 2008.
• Program Committee, Financial Cryptography, 2008.
• Program Committee, Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec), 2008.

Given the volume of requests I receive associated with these activities, I am unable to respond to most email queries. Please use the contacts listed on the appropriate home-page (links above).

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