Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
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Office: 6111 Sennott Square Building 210 S. Bouquet St. Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Email:
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Recent News
- (11/2009) Yann Le Gall has been awarded the Arts & Sciences Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work with our group. Congratulations, Yann!
- (11/2009) I will serve on the POLICY 2010 program committee.
- (8/21/2009) I will serve on the IDtrust 2010 program committee.
- (8/20/2009) I will serve on the SACMAT 2010 program committee.
- (8/2009) I will serve on the program committee for the WWW 2010 Security and Privacy track.
- (7/1/2009) My office has moved to 6111 SENSQ.
- (4/7/2009) I will serve on the IFIPTM 2010 program committee. The call for papers is now available.
- (3/9/2009) Our paper Towards a Dynamic and Composite Model of Trust has been accepted to SACMAT 2009.
- Old news...
Research
My broad research interests lie at the intersection of the security, privacy, and distributed systems fields. Much of my research focuses on authentication and authorization approaches designed to facilitate secure interactions across organizational boundaries, such as trust negotiation and distributed proof construction. Within this space, I am investigating a number of topics, including protocol design and optimization, privacy-preserving policy evaluation, the incorporation of risk metrics and reputation data into formal proof construction approaches, and efficient techniques for quantitatively analyzing security policies.
Teaching
- Spring 2010: CS 1653, Applied Cryptography and Network Security
- Fall 2009: CS 3525, Advanced Topics in Security and Privacy
- Spring 2009: CS 2530, Computer and Network Security
- Fall 2008: CS/COE 0441, Discrete Structures for Computer Science
Students
I am currently working with the following students:
- Andrew K. Adams (PhD)
- Nicholas Farnan (PhD)
- Ricardo Villamarín-Salomón (PhD, co-advise with J. Brustoloni)
- Brian Wongchaowart (MS)
- Yann Le Gall (BS)
Note: Faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh do not individually admit students; admission decisions are made by a central committee. If you are interested in applying to our graduate program, you can find more information here. Unfortunately, I am not always able to respond to e-mail from prospective students, and I apologize in advance.
If you have already been admitted to our CS graduate program and are interested in pursuing a research project with me, please stop by my office or send me e-mail.