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I will be joining the CICS faculty as a lecturer in Fall 2016.

I’ve joined the PETS 2017 TPC. The Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium is the premier venue for novel research on the theoretical and practical aspects of privacy technologies. Please submit your work!

UMass has been awarded an NSF CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service grant (DGE-1565521). In short, undergraduate or graduate students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and studying cybersecurity are eligible for tuition and fee waivers and generous stipends.

I have been nominated for a 2015-2016 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), a campus-wide student-driven recognition of teaching, for my teaching of CMPSCI 187 last semester. (DTA selection evaluations are only conducted when nominees teach during a Fall semester.

Next semester (Spring 2016) I am tentatively scheduled to be the instructor for COMPSCI 290NW: A Networked World. Last offered in Fall 2014, COMPSCI 290NW is not intended for CS majors, but it is an excellent introduction to networking, the Internet, and related technologies for non-majors.

Discovering Specification Violations in Networked Software Systems, written in collaboration with Robert Walls, Yuriy Brun, and Brian Levine, has been accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015).

Next semester (Spring 2015) I am the instructor (with John Ridgway) for CMPSCI 187: Programming with Data Structures. Computer Science handles course wait lists centrally. If SPIRE indicates the course is full and you want to get on the wait list, please request an override.

I’ve joined the PETS 2015 TPC. The Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium is the premier venue for novel research on the theoretical and practical aspects of privacy technologies. Please submit your work!

My paper Sybil-Resistant Mixing for Bitcoin, written in collaboration with George Bissias, Pinar Ozisik, and Brian Levine, has been accepted to the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society workshop, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

I’ve joined the DFRWS 2015 TPC. DFRWS is the leading digital forensics research conference. If you’re doing work in the field on one of the many topics of interest, please submit a writeup!