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Prof. Tzi-cker Chiueh

Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh is a Professor in the Computer Science Department of Stony Brook University. He received his B.S. in EE from National Taiwan University, M.S. in CS from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in CS from University of California at Berkeley in 1984, 1988, and 1992, respectively. He received an NSF CAREER award in 1995, an IEEE Hot Interconnect Best Paper award in 1999, a Long Island Software Award in 1997 and 2004, and a Best Paper Award from 2005 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Dr. Chiueh has published over 140 technical papers in refereed conferences and journals. His current research interest lies in cyber security, wireless networking, and storage systems.

Prof. Rob Johnson

Rob Johnson received his PhD in Computer Science from Berkeley in 2005. His areas of interest include Systems security, Cryptography, and Programming Languages.

Prof. C.R. Ramakrishnan

C. R. Ramakrishnan received his PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook in 1995. He holds M.Sc (Tech.) in Computer Science and M.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from BITS, Pilani, India. He has been on the faculty in the CS department at Stony Brook since 1997. His areas of interest include Formal Methods, Logic Programming, Programming Languages, and Security.

Prof. R. Sekar

R. Sekar is a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Center for Cybersecurity at Stony Brook. Sekar received his Bachelor's degree in EE from IIT, Madras and Ph.D. in CS from Stony Brook in 1991. From 1991 to 1996, he was a Research Scientist in Networking Research at Bellcore. He then accepted a faculty position at Iowa State University, and subsequently moved back to Stony Brook in 1999. He is an expert in computer security and specializes in the areas of intrusion detection, prevention and response, and mobile and untrusted code security. His research is supported by grants from NSF, ONR, NYSTAR, and Computer Associates.

Prof. Radu Sion

Radu Sion is an Assistant Professor in Computer Sciences at Stony Brook University. He is heading the Network Security and Applied Cryptography (NSAC) Lab. His research interests are in Information Assurance, Applied Cryptography and Network Security. Ongoing projects address wireless and sensor networks security, digital rights management, secure data outsourcing, queries over encrypted data, reputation systems, integrity proofs in sensor networks, secure storage in peer to peer and ad-hoc environments, data privacy and bounds on illicit inference over multiple data sources, security and policy management in computation/data grids. Radu received his PhD in Computer Sciences in 2004 from Purdue University. He spent 2004 at the IBM Almaden Research Center.

Prof. Scott Stoller

Scott D. Stoller is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University. His primary research interests are analysis, optimization, testing, and verification of software, with emphases on concurrency, security, and incremental computation. He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1990 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1997. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 1999, an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2002, and the 2005 IBM Verification Conference Best Paper Award. He is a member of the team that won the NASA Turning Goals Into Reality Award for Engineering Innovation in 2003. He is the author or co-author of about 60 refereed research publications.

Prof. Erez Zadok

Erez Zadok's research focuses on operating systems, with a specialty in file systems, storage, and security. He studies operating systems and file systems from many aspects: security, efficiency, scalability, reliability, portability, survivability, usability, ease-of-use, versatility, flexibility, and more. Special attention is given to balancing three often-conflicting aspects of computer systems: security, performance, and ease-of-use. Since joining Stony Brook in 2001, Zadok and his group in the Filesystems and Storage Lab (FSL) developed many file systems and operating system extensions; examples include a highly-secure cryptographic file system, a portable versioning file system, a tracing file system useful to detect intrusions, a replaying file system useful for forensics, a snapshotting and sandboxing file system, an anti-virus file system, an integrity-checking file system, a compiler to convert user-level C code to in-kernel efficient yet safe code, stackable file system templates, and more. Zadok's research is supported by several NSF grants including an NSF CAREER award, an NSF Trusted Computing grant, an NSF CSR award, and two joint NSF awards for Information Assurance Education (Capacity Building and Scholarship for Service). Zadok is the winner of the 2004 Computer Science Department bi-annual Graduate Teaching Award. Zadok's lab exposes students to internals of over a dozen different operating systems. Zadok is the author of "Linux NFS and Automounter Administration" (Sybex, 2001). Zadok's published 32 conference and journal articles in the past. Twelve of those are security-related papers in IEEE, ACM, and Usenix venues. Three of those twelve papers won the following awards: Best Short Paper award (ACM Storage Security 2005), Best Paper award (IEEE/ACM Cluster Security Workshop 2005), and Best Student Paper award (Usenix Technical Conference, FREENIX track, 2001).