Georgia Tech Information Security Center

Professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing

Biography

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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Administrative Professional III

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KACB Office 3224

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

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Assistant Professor

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Chris Peikert received his PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2006, following undergraduate studies in CS and Mathematics (also at MIT).  His research interests include cryptography, computational complexity, and algorithms, especially in relation to lattices, error-correcting codes, geometry and number theory. Chris was most recently employed by the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International.

Computer Science Ph.D. Committee Member

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Associate Professor

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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

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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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Associate Professor

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Dr Prvulovic's research focuses on architectural (hardware) support for program monitoring, debugging, and security, particularly in multi-threaded and multi-core systems. In general, the goal of his research is to make both hardware and software more reliable and secure. He is the area coordinator for the Computer Architecture area in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Dr. Prvulovic received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003.

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Professor

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The overall goal of Dr. Harrold's research is to develop efficient techniques and tools that will automate, or partially automate, development, testing, and maintenance tasks. Her research to date has involved program analysis based software engineering, with an emphasis on regression testing, analysis and testing of imperative and object-oriented software, development of software tools, and investigation of the scalability issues of these techniques, through algorithm development and empirical evaluation.

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Professor

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Jun (Jim) Xu is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research interests include data streaming algorithms for the measurement and monitoring of computer networks, and algorithms and data structures for high-speed routers. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2003, ACM Sigmetrics Best Student Paper Award in 2004, and IBM faculty awards in 2006 and 2008. He was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2010.

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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, Director of GTISC

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Dr. Wenke Lee is a Professor of Computer Science in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He also serves as the Director of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1999. Dr. Lee works in systems and network security. His current research projects are in the areas of botnet detection and attribution, malware analysis, virtual machine monitoring, mobile phone security, and detection and mitigation of information manipulation on the Internet, with funding from NSF, DHS, DoD, and the industry. Dr.

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