Spotlight: Adam Lee, Assistant Professor
Dr. Adam J. Lee joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant
Professor in the Fall of 2008. He received the MS and PhD degrees in
Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 2005 and 2008, respectively. In 2003, he received his BS in
Computer Science with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Cornell
University. While at the University of Illinois, Dr. Lee was a member
of the Database and Information Systems (DAIS) laboratory. He was
also affiliated with the University of Illinois Information Trust
Institute (ITI), an academic/industry partnership targeting
application areas such as electric power, financial systems, defense,
and homeland security, among others.
Dr. Lee's research interests lie at the intersection of the computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields. His doctoral work focused on the design and optimization of efficient and provably-secure authorization approaches that enable secure interactions across organizational boundaries, such as trust negotiation and distributed proof construction. This work led to several research honors including a Motorola Center for Communications Graduate Fellowship, a Cisco Systems Information Assurance Scholarship, and invitations to submit three papers to fully-refereed issues of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security containing extended versions of the top papers from the ACM CCS and SACMAT conferences.
Dr. Lee is currently pursuing a number of research topics within the security and privacy space, including authorization protocol design and optimization, privacy-preserving policy evaluation, and a variety of techniques to make formal proof construction approaches more flexible and responsive to uncertainty. He is also interested developing usable techniques for quantitatively analyzing the often complicated security policies that control access rights within large organizations.
For more information about Dr. Lee's research interests, please see his personal web page.