Research Interests

My Current Research Interests

(and some past ones)

General Intrusion Detection
Improvements
none right now ~~~~~
Creating Online Versions of
Two Courses
Zach Ziemba
Steve Dotson
- Developing some possibly novel approaches to teaching online
courses using some level of interactivity
- Incorporating audio, video, Javascript, and files for testing
Reversible Computing
Vulnerabilities
none yet - Shhhh... it's a secret
Static Analysis of Code for Security
Vulnerabilities
Mike Ware (grad) - TR-CS-0601, Mike Ware
- Analyze vulnerability data to determine if static analysis would
have caught the vulnerability
Analysis of Current Rootkit
Technology
Zach Ziemba
Steve Dotson
- Analyze current rootkits and and the performance of rootkit
detectors
- Create a Rootkit that will install simply by plugging in a thumb
drive with U3 Technology
Steganography: Techiniques and
Detection/Extraction
Rob Ball (grad)
John Richards (grad)
Chad Holbrook
Jeremy Snodgress
Mike Ware (grad)
Andrew Baer (grad)
David Knight
Brent Cianfrocca (RIP)
- tons of stuff done, but debatable if under NDA
Social Implications of Computing none yet - Create a series of presentations to give to elementary, middle,
and high school students, as well as adult audiences.
- Analysis of chat room conversations
- Conceptual development and outline of a book on negative aspects
Educating the General Population on
Computer Security Issues
Mike Ware (grad)
Dave Knight (grad)
Travis Woods (grad)
Johnny Dean (grad)
Brent Cianfrocca (RIP)
- AWARE Project
- Online Fundamentals of Computer Security course
Creating a Graphical Analysis of Social
Network Interactions
none yet - Developing some form of artistic conceptual mappings or other
representation of friend networks on social networking sites.