| 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. In December 2008, he received the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
for his contributions to cybersecurity, notably spam filtering. His
honors include the Technology Review 35 "Top Young Innovators Under 35"
award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, the IBM
Faculty Fellowship, and award papers at SIGCOMM 2006 (network-level
behavior of spammers), the NSDI 2005 conference (fault detection in
router configuration), Usenix Security 2002 (circumventing web
censorship using Infranet), and Usenix Security 2001 (web cookie
analysis). back |