Georgia Tech Information Security Center

Professor

Biography

Dr. Jun Xu's current research focuses on developing new techniques to address the security problems in Internet infrastructure and applications (i.e., E-commerce), in particular Denial of Service (DoS). There are several related projects under this theme. One project is the concept development and practical design of a novel cryptographic primitive: a humanizer that can tell a human being from a computer with high confidence.

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Regents' Professor

Director, Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)

Biography

Dr. Schwan is a Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also directs the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS), with co-directors from both GT's College of Computing and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Schwan's M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he began his research in high performance computing, addressing operating and programming systems support for the Cm* multiprocessor.

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Professor

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Dr. Sham Navathe has been a faculty member at Georgia Tech since 1990. His present research interests include database modeling, design and integration in the context of emerging applications - engineering design, biological (particularly human genome) databases, document and text databases, and collaborative applications. He is also interested in knowledge representation, data mining and knowledge discovery, tools and methodologies for information system design and visualization and user interfaces for better information retrieval.

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Program Manager

Office:

KACB

Email:

thompson [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Associate Professor

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Alessandro Orso is an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1995) and his Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999) from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. From March 2000, he has been at Georgia Tech, first as a research faculty and now as an associate professor. His area of research is software engineering, with emphasis on software testing and analysis.

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Professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing

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A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Lipton's professional career has been primarily in academia. He has held faculty appointments at Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University before joining the faculty in the college of Computing at Georgia Tech. In addition to his computer science academic appointments, Dr. Lipton was the founding director of a computer science research laboratory for the Panasonic Corporation and is currently a chief consulting scientist at Telcordia (formerly known as Bellcore).

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Director, Georgia Tech Information Security Center

Biography

Dr. Ahamad's research interest focuses on the operating systems and middleware support that is essential for enabling emerging applications in wide-area distributed computing systems. Currently, he directs projects that focus on two specific problems in such environments: scalability and security. Scalable distributed services will be needed for supporting complex and information rich applications that will allow widely distributed users to interact with each other in real-time.

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Associate Professor

Office:

KACB Office 2136

Email:

venkat [at] cc [dot] gatech [dot] edu (Send Email)

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Associate Professor

Biography

Nick Feamster is an associate professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in Computer science from MIT in 2005, and his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, including the design, measurement, and analysis of network routing protocols, network operations and security, and anonymous communication systems.

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Professor

Biography

Dr. Ramachandran received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1986 under the direction of Marvin Solomon. Since then he has been with Georgia Tech (home of the yellow jackets), where he is currently a Professor in the Core Computing Division in the College of Computing. His research interests are in the area of architectural design, programming, and analysis of parallel and distributed systems.

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