My main research topics involve these challenges:

• Center for Forensics (including privacy work)
• Mobility: DOME Projects
• Peer-to-peer networking

You can see a list of all of my publications online.

 

Latest News and Pubs

• Our paper Measurement and Analysis of Child Pornography Trafficking on P2P Networks, has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at WWW 2013!
• I've been invited to give a Keynote Talk at the SYSTOR 2013 Conference in Haifa, Israel, held in cooperation with USENIX and the Technion Center of Excellence (TCE) this June. The talk will be on "Fighting Internet-based Sexual Exploitation Crimes Against Children".
• I've been invited to give a talk at the Center for Research on Computation and Society as part of its Seminar Series on Monday, April 8, 2013 at noon.
• Another talk! At Georgetown University's Department of Computer Science. Friday, April 5, 2013.
• My group was honored to have our work referenced in a very important January 2013 New York Times Magazine article on victim restitution.
• I was honored to give invited testimony to the US Sentencing Commission hearing on "Federal Child Pornography Offenses" in Washinton, DC on February 15, 2012.

  
  

• Selected Recent Publications:
  • Disabling GPS is Not Enough: Cellular location leaks over the Internet (Soroush, Keen, Learned-Miller, Levine, Liberatore). In Proc. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 2013.
  • Measurement and Analysis of Child Pornography Trafficking on P2P Networks (Hurley, Prusty, Soroush, Walls, Albrecht, Cecchet, Levine, Liberatore, Lynn, Wolak). In Proc. World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, May 2013.
  • Functional Privacy (or Why Cookies are Better with Milk) (Walls, Clark, and Levine). In Proc. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, August 2012.
  • Forensic Investigation of the OneSwarm Anonymous Filesharing System (Prusty, Levine, Liberatore). In Proc. ACM CCS, October 2011.
  • Forensic Triage for Mobile Phones with DEC0DE (Walls, Learned-Miller, Levine). In Proc. USENIX Security, August 2011
  • Strengthening Forensic Investigations of Child Pornography on P2P Networks (Liberatore, Levine, Shields). In Proc. ACM CoNext, November 2010

   

• I'm currently on a sabbatical through Summer 2013.

Milestones

• Hamed Soroush graduates with a PhD! Now a lecturer at the Univ. of Virginia in the Dept. of Computer Science.
• I was awarded a UMass College of Natural Sciences 2011 Outstanding Research Award. Presented each year to two faculty from across 16 departments.
• TPC Co-Chair of the the DFRWS 2012 Annual Forensics Conference with Clay Shields.
• In 2011, I was Co-Chair of ACM Mobicom 2011 with Thyaga Nandagopal, and Co-Chair of DFRWS 2011 with Florian Buchholz..
• Aruna Balasubramanian graduates with a PhD! Now a postdoc at UW. Runner-Up for the ACM Sigcomm Disertation Award!
• George Bissias graduates with a PhD! Now at Hadapt.
• We created a video about UMass DOME:
• RoundUp software now used in all 50 states, by several federal agencies, and in other countries. As of March 2012, it has been the basis of over 4,500 executed search warrants focused on child pornography posession/distribution. The project is featured in a DoJ report to congress. See a collection of news stories based on UMass tools.
• Co-Founder/Steering Committee of the NeFX 2009 Workshop.
• Member of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Privacy Working Group (PWG); Massachusetts Secretary Mary Elizabeth Heffernan, Chair
• My undergrad, The Univ. at Albany, has awarded me the 2008 Alumni Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Go Danes!
• Marc Liberatore graduates with a PhD!
• I've been awarded a 2007 UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award.
• I've been invited to give the Keynote Talk at the 2006 Workshop on Networking in Public Transport in Waterloo, Ontario.
  
• I was an associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 2005--2010.
• Mark Claypool (WPI) and I are co-chairs of ACM NOSSDAV 2006.
• My first PhD student, Matt Wright, has started as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at Univ. of Texas at Arlington. Go Matt!
• I've been selected as a University of Massachusetts Lilly Teaching Fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. The program "enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence".
• "An Analysis of the Degradation of Anonymous Protocols" (Wright, Adler, Levine and Shields) received the Outstanding Paper award at NDSS 2002.
• 2002 NSF Career Grant recipient