Note: I create this pape for my purpose of quickly catching on what those active core people are working at. It is not an entire collection of all the system & network security researchers, but just those who has already graduated and works on the problem I am intersted in. So those who are still PhD students are not listed. I personally like program analysis; that's why I listed many PL & SE -oriented security people. Also, if it happens for me to forget listing someone, please let me know and I will be happy to add him/her. For the crypto researcher list, please refer to the page maintained by Bruno Crispo and David Wagner
| Name | Homepage | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Abadi | http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~abadi/ | Security, specification and verification, programming languages ... |
| Kostas G. Anagnostakis | http://s3g.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~kostas/ | Malware defense, distributed systems, networking and computational markets ... |
| Ross Anderson | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/ | Economics of information security, p2p system, robustness of cryptographic protocols ... |
| William Arbaugh | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~waa/ | Information systems security and privacy, security management ... |
| Giuseppe Ateniese | http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~ateniese/ | Applied cryptography and network security |
| John Aycock | http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/ | Computer security, worms, virus, trjoans, future threats and defenses ... |
| Michael Backes | http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~backes/ | Information security and cryptography ... |
| Michael Bailey | http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~mibailey/ | Security and availability of complex distributed systems ... |
| Paul Barford | http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/ | Network security, intrustion detection, network measurement and evaluation... |
| Adam Barth | http://www.adambarth.com/ | Browser security, and privacy |
| Lujo Bauer | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~lbauer/ | Computer security, proof-carrying authorization, distributed access control ... |
| Steven M. Bellovin | http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/ | Networks, security, and especially why the two don't get along ... |
| Konstantin Beznosov | http://konstantin.beznosov.net/professional/main/main.html | System & network security, security usability, access control ... |
| Dan Boneh | http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/ | Applied cryptography, and network security ... |
| Herbert Bos | http://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/ | System and network security, intrusion detection and signature generation ... |
| David Brumley | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~dbrumley/ | Software security, network security, and applied cryptography |
| Roy Campbell | www.cs.uiuc.edu/~rhc | Security, distributed operating systems and ubiquitous computing |
| Miguel Castro | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/mcastro/ | Software security, network security, and distributed systems |
| Philip Chan | http://www.cs.fit.edu/~pkc/ | Adaptive systems, machine learning methods for computer security, web personalization ... |
| Hao Chen | http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hchen/ | Web security, cellular network security, software security, and malware defense ... |
| Peter M. Chen | http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pmchen/ | Virtual machine systems, speculative execution in OS & DS, fault-tolerant computing |
| Shuo Chen | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/shuochen/ | Systems security, software security, browser security, formal verification, program analysis |
| Yan Chen | http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ychen/ | Computer networking and large-scale distributed systems, network measurement, diagnosis ... |
| Tzi-cker Chiueh | http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~chiueh/ | System & network security, malware defense ... |
| Stephen Chong | http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~schong/ | Expressive and Enforceable Information Security Policies ... |
| Mihai Christodorescu | http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mihai/ | Computer security, malware analysis, program verification, and software engineeringe ... |
| Evan Cooke | http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~emcooke/ | Network security and distributed systems, malware analysis (defense) ... |
| Manuel Costa | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/manuelc/ | Scalable and reliable systems and networks ... |
| Crispin Cowan | http://crispincowan.com/ | System & network security, survivability ... |
| Jedidiah R. Crandall | http://www.cs.unm.edu/~crandall/ | VM systems, software security, and malware defense ... |
| Weidong Cui | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/ | Systema & network security, malware analysis |
| Saumya Debray | http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/debray/ | Software security, binary rewriting and link-time code optimization, code compression |
| Sven Dietrich | http://home.adelphi.edu/~spock/ | Computer security, applied cryptography, anonymity, privacy ... |
| George Dinolt | http://faculty.nps.edu/gwdinolt/ | Security policies, secure systems architectures and design ... |
| Wenliang (Kevin) Du | http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/ | Security in wireless Ad hoc and sensor networks, distributed computing and grid Computing ... |
| Dawson Engler | http://www.stanford.edu/~engler/ | Software security, program analysis, bug finding... |
| Ulfar Erlingsson | http://www.ru.is/faculty/ulfar/ | Dependable, distributed software systems ... |
| David Evans | http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/ | System security, software engineering, programming languages, cryptography, networking ... |
| Nick Feamster | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~feamster/ | Networked computer systems: network operations, architecture, protocol design ... |
| Edward W. Felten | http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten/ | Computer security and privacy, and technology policy ... |
| Jeff Foster | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jfoster/ | Programming languages, software engineering, program analysis ... |
| Cedric Fournet | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/fournet/ | Concurrent programming, distributed systems, and security ... |
| Michael J. Freedman | http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mfreed/ | Distributed systems, security, networking, and applied cryptography ... |
| Kevin Fu | http://www.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/ | Security and privacy for pervasive computation ... |
| Vinod Ganapathy | http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~vinodg/ | Computer security and reliability,software engineering, program analysis, OS ... |
| Tal Garfinkel | http://www.stanford.edu/~talg/ | VM systems, computer security, networks ... |
| Virgil D. Gligor | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~virgil/ | Network and distributed systems security, applied cryptography ... |
| Jonathon Giffin | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~giffin | System and software security, intrusion detection, program analysis, virtualization ... |
| Patrice Godefroid | https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/pg/ | Program specification, analysis, testing and verification, model checking |
| Steven D. Gribble | http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gribble/ | OS, DS, scalable Internet services, systems security, malware defense |
| Debin Gao | http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/faculty/infosys/debingao.asp | System & Network security, intrusion detection ... |
| Carrie Gates | http://flame.cs.dal.ca/~gates/ | Network security and traffic analysis, network situational awareness ... |
| Ian Goldberg | http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~iang/ | Security and privacy, creating security and privacy technologies for Internet transactions... |
| Philippe Golle | http://crypto.stanford.edu/~pgolle/ | Network security, privacy ... |
| Guofei Gu | http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/guofei/ | System & Network security, malware detection, defense, and analysis, Web security ... |
| Yong Guan | http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~guan/ | Computer and network forensics, wireless and sensor network security, privacy-enhancing ... |
| Fanglu Guo | http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~fanglu/ | System & network security, wireless network, network performance and dependability ... |
| Peter Gutmann | http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/ | Design and analysis of security techniques and systems ... |
| J. Alex Halderman | http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/ | Software security, data privacy, electronic voting, digital rights management, cybercrime ... |
| Michael Hicks | http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/ | Software reliability and security ... |
| Thorsten Holz | http://honeyblog.org/ | Malware collection (honeypot), analysis, detection, prevention ... |
| Yih-Chun Hu | http://users.crhc.illinois.edu/yihchun/ | Security and systems -- secure systems and mobile communications ... |
| Angelos Keromytis | http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/ | Computer security, cryptography, and networking |
| Emre Kiciman | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/emrek/ | Large-scale systems (mostly Internet services) reliability and operations ... |
| Yongdae Kim | http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kyd/ | Practical security mechanisms in file systems, p2p systems, sensor and ad-hoc network ... |
| Engin Kirda | http://www.iseclab.org/people/ek/ | Software and network security, web vulnerability detection and prevention, binary analysis... |
| Christian Kreibich | http://www.icir.org/christian/ | Network architecture, distributed systems, and network security ... |
| Christopher Kruegel | http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~chris/ | Computer & network security, malware analysis, web security, and vulnerability analysis... |
| Peng Liu | http://ist.psu.edu/s2/pliu/ | Survivable systems, systems & network Security, privacy ... |
| Trent Jaeger | http://www.cse.psu.edu/~tjaeger/ | VM systems, Linux security, source code analysis ... |
| Farnam Jahanian | http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~farnam/ | Distributed computing, network security, and network protocols & architecture... |
| Sushil Jajodia | http://csis.gmu.edu/faculty/jajodia.html | Information systems security, survivability and information warfare, watermarking ... |
| Somesh Jha | http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jha/ | Computer security, software engineering, program analysis ... |
| Xuxian Jiang | http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/ | Virtual machines (VMs) and OS security, malware analysis |
| Markus Jakobsson | http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/markus/ | Netwrok security, phishing and counter-measures, click-fraud, cryptography ... |
| Rob Johnson | http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/ | Software security, system and network security, cryptography s... |
| Anthony D. Joseph | http://bnrg.cs.berkeley.edu/~adj/ | Internet security, mobile/distributed computing, and wireless communications ... |
| Jaeyeon Jung | http://www2.seattle.intel-research.net/~jjung/ | Intrusion detecion, network forensic analysis ... |
| Sam King | http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/kingst/Home.html | VMs, OS & user level application code security ... |
| Tadayoshi Kohno | http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoshi/ | Computer security, privacy, and applied cryptography ... |
| Arun Lakhotia | http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/ | Program analysis, program visualization and understanding, software evolution/protection ... |
| Adam J. Lee | http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~adamlee/ | Protocol design and optimization, privacy-preserving policy evaluation ... |
| Wenke Lee | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~wenke/ | Systems and network security, applied cryptography, network management, and data mining |
| Brian Neil Levine | http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/brian/ | Mobile networks, security, and the Internet ... |
| Ninghui Li | http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ninghui/ | Cmputer security, access control, privacy, applied cryptography ... |
| Zhuowei Li | http://zhuowei.net/default.aspx | Malware/spyware analysis, defense and containment, Intrusion detection ... |
| Zhenkai Liang | http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liangzk/ | Software security, program analysis |
| David Lie | http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~lie/ | OS, computer architecture, formal verification and networking ... |
| Ulf Lindqvist | http://www.csl.sri.com/people/lindqvist/ | Computer misuse analysis, modeling, categorization, and automatic real-time detection ... |
| Alex X. Liu | http://www.cse.msu.edu/~alexliu/ | Networking and security, distributed computing, dependable and high-assurance systems ... |
| Benjamin Livshits | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/livshits/ | Software security, bug finding, vulnerability analysis .... |
| Michael E. Locasto | http://cs.gmu.edu/~mlocasto/ | System Security, with a focus on automatic, correct, and efficient defense mechanism ... |
| Javier Lopez | http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/ | Network security, security Services and cryptographic protocols for network applications ... |
| Roy A. Maxion | http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/maxion/www/ | Fault/intrusion detection, attacker/defender testbed, reliable hardware/software ... |
| Z. Morley Mao | http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~zmao/ | Network security/forensics, network systems/applications, and network management |
| David Mazieres | http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/ | Computer system and security |
| Patrick McDaniel | http://www.patrickmcdaniel.org/ | Systems & network security, language-based security ... |
| John C. Mitchelll | http://theory.stanford.edu/people/jcm/ | Access control, network protocols, privacy, software systems, and web security ... |
| George Mohay | http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~mohayg/ | Computer security, intrusion detection, computer forensics ... |
| Fabian Monrose | http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/ | Malware classification and modeling, traffic analysis, applied crypto and privacy ... |
| Greg Morrisett | http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/ | Applications of programming language technology for building secure and reliable systems. ... |
| Andrew Myers | http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/ | Computer security, programming languages, and distributed and persistent objects ... |
| George Necula | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~necula/ | Security in distributed systems, programming language theory, design and implementation ... |
| Peng Ning | http://discovery.csc.ncsu.edu/ | Software and systems security, and security in Ad-hoc & WSN ... |
| Paul C. Van Oorschot | http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/ | Authentication, network security, software security, applied cryptography ... |
| Vern Paxson | http://www.icir.org/vern/ | System & Network Security, malware defense ... |
| Marco Pistoia | http://www.research.ibm.com/people/p/pistoia/ | Mobile-code security, component software, and static program analysis of OO ... |
| Adrian Perrig | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/ | Networking and systems security, security for mobile computing and sensor networks ... |
| Radha Poovendran | http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/nsl/faculty/radha/ | Security of critical networks and network components ... |
| Phillip Porras | http://www.csl.sri.com/people/porras/ | Intrusion detection, high assurance computing, security evaluation, network management ... |
| Neils Provos | http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ | Web-Based Malware, distributed DoS, intrusion detection & prevention ... |
| Feng Qin | http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~qin/ | Software dependability, operating systems, and security ... |
| Moheeb Rajab | http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~moheeb/ | networking and network security ... |
| Michael Reiter | http://www.cs.unc.edu/~reiter/ | System & network security, distributed system, applied crypto ... |
| Cristina Nita-Rotaru | http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~crisn/ | DS, network protocols and applications, security in wireless ad hoc network ... |
| Avi Rubin | http://www.avirubin.com/ | Systems and networking security, with special attention to computer privacy ... |
| Hassen Saidi | http://www.csl.sri.com/users/saidi/ | Intrusion detection, and static analysis, computer-aided verification, logic ... |
| Pierangela Samarati | http://www.dti.unimi.it/samarati/ | Data security, information system security, access control policies, models and systems ... |
| Ravi Sandhu | http://profsandhu.com/ | Information security, privacy, authorization models, protocols and mechanisms ... |
| Stefan Savage | http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~savage/ | System & networking (esp availability, security, and occasionally performance) ... |
| R. Sekar | http://seclab.cs.sunysb.edu/sekar/ | Intrusion detection, software security, and OS enhancements ... |
| Hovav Shacham | http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~hovav/ | Applied cryptography, systems security, and tech policy ... |
| Umesh Shankar | http://www.umeshshankar.com/ | Browser security and privacy, intrusion detection, program analysis ... |
| Vitaly Shmatikov | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/ | Computer security and privacy, formal methods for analysis of secure systems ... |
| Stelios Sidiroglou | http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ss1759 | OS, network and software security and software survivability ... |
| Radu Sion | http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~sion/ | Information assurance, applied cryptography and network security |
| Sean W. Smith | http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/ | System security, PKI, applied crypto ... |
| Anil Somayaji | http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/ | Computer security, OS, artificial life, and complex adaptive systems ... |
| Robin Sommer | http://www.icir.org/robin/ | Network security, high-performance network intrusion detection in operational settings ... |
| Dawn Song | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/ | Software security, network security, and applied cryptography ... |
| Eugene Spafford | http://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/ | Information security, computer crime investigation and information ethics ... |
| Angelos Stavrou | http://cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/ | Large systems security & survivability, secure P2p and overlay networking, privacy ... |
| Salvatore J. Stolfo | http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~sal/ | Intrusion detection system ... |
| Zhengdong Su | http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~su/ | Programming languages, software engineering, and computer security ... |
| Paul Syverson | http://www.syverson.org/ | Onion routing; Protocols, security, anonymity, and privacy in Ad-hoc & WSN ... |
| Peter Szor | http://www.peterszor.com/ | Computer virus detection, and intrusion prevention... |
| Patrick Traynor | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~traynor/ | Security in cellular networks |
| Gene Tsudik | http://www.ics.uci.edu/~gts/ | Privacy, computer and network security, applied cryptography ... |
| Doug Tygar | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/ | Privacy, computer security and electronic commerce |
| Shambhu J. Upadhyaya | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shambhu | Information assurance, computer security, fault diagnosis, fault tolerant computing ... |
| Alfonso Valdes | http://www.csl.sri.com/users/valdes/ | Probabilistic alert correlation, dependable intrusion tolerance ... |
| V.N. Venkatakrishnan | http://www.cs.uic.edu/~venkat/ | Web & browser security, privacy and information flow policies ... |
| Giovanni Vigna | http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna/ | Web Security, intrusion detection, vulnerability analysis, malware and badware analysis |
| Jan Vitek | http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/jv/ | Programming languages, VM, program analysis and optimization, information security |
| Geoffrey M. Voelker | http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~voelker/ | Network and systems security ... |
| David Wagner | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/ | Systems & networks, applications of static and dynamic program analysis to computer security |
| Dan Wallach | http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/ | Mobile code security, p2p networking security, wireless security, security in evoting systems |
| Michael Waidner | http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~wmi/ | Computer and network security, privacy ... |
| Haining Wang | http://www.cs.wm.edu/~hnw/ | Network security, network QoS, computer Security, wireless and mobile computing ... |
| Helen J. Wang | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/helenw/ | System security, malware defense, web security, wireless location privacy ... |
| Jia Wang | http://www.research.att.com/~jiawang/ | Internet routing, network measurement and management, and network security ... |
| Lingyu Wang | http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~wang/ | Data privacy, vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection, security metrics ... |
| Ke Wang | http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~kewang/ | Intrusion detection, user behavior modeling, spam blocking ... |
| Xinyuan (Frank) Wang | http://ise.gmu.edu/~xwangc/ | Network-based intrusion source tracing, botnet, VoIP security, information hiding ... |
| XiaoFeng Wang | http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/xw7/ | Automatic program Analysis, DoS containment, incentive engineering |
| Yi-Min Wang | https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ymwang/ | Cybersecurity & systems management ... |
| Brent Waters | http://www.csl.sri.com/users/bwaters/ | Network security and applied cryptography ... |
| Nicholas C Weaver | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/ | Network and systems security ... |
| Westley Weimer | http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/ | Software quality, program analysis, designing languages and language features ... |
| William H. Winsborough | http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~winsboro/ | Computer security and privacy in distributed systems and networks ... |
| Rebecca N. Wright | http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~rebecca.wright/ | Computer and communications security ... |
| S. Felix Wu | http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~wu/ | Vulnerability analysis, IPSec/VPN policy management, routing protocol security ... |
| Yinglian Xie | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/yxie/ | Network security, privacy, distributed systems, and networking ... |
| Dongyan Xu | http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dxu/ | Virtualization in system security, and distributed computing |
| Jun Xu | http://research.google.com/pubs/author857.html | System and network security, software security ... |
| Shouhuai Xu | http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~shxu/ | Provably survivable/trustworthy systems ... |
| Junfeng Yang | http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng/ | OS, software error detection, security, and storage systems ... |
| Danfeng (Daphne) Yao | http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~danfeng/ | Computer and information security and applied cryptography ... |
| Vinod Yegneswaran | http://www.csl.sri.com/people/yegneswaran/ | System & network security, malware defense ... |
| Heng Yin | http://lcs.syr.edu/faculty/yin/ | Binary analysis, malware detection ... |
| Ting Yu | http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tyu/ | Trust management and privacy preservation in open systems, and database management systems... |
| Nickolai Zeldovich | http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/ | System and Network Security, software security, information flow ... |
| Steve Zdancewic | http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~stevez/ | Language-based security, access control and authorization logic ... |
| Xiangyu Zhang | http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/xyzhang/ | Software debugging, program analysis, dynamic slicing ... |
| Xiaolan (Catherine) Zhang | http://www.google.com/search?q=Catherine+Zhang | Secure software technology ... |
| Sheng Zhong | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~szhong/ | Wireless networks, data privacy and applied cryptography, theory and algorithms ... |
| Yuanyuan Zhou | http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/yyzhou/ | Computer architecture, OS, software reliability, software debugging ... |
| Sencun Zhu | http://www.cse.psu.edu/~szhu/ | Network and systems security, and security in Ad-hoc & WSN ... |
| Cliff C. Zou | http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~czou/ | Computer and network security, network modeling and performance evaluation ... |