Brief Bio: |
I joined
the faculty in the Computer
Science Department at Hunter College (CUNY) as
Professor in August 2020. Prior to joining Hunter College,
I was in the Mathematics
and Computer Science department at CUNY John Jay as
Associate Professor from 2014 to 2020, and in the Computer
Science Department at the Stevens Institute of
Technology as Assistant Professor from 2007 to 2014.
I previously worked at CERT,
located at Carnegie Mellon University, as a Senior Member
of the Technical Staff from 2001 to 2007. I was also
adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon's CyLab (2003-2007)
and briefly in the Mathematics and Computer Science
Department at Duquesne
University in Spring 2007. I was also member of the
CMU CyLab Usable Privacy
& Security Laboratory (2006-2007). Prior to
that, I was a Senior Security Architect at the NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center (1997-2001).
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Education: |
Doctor of Arts, Mathematics (with some significant work in
Computer Science), Adelphi University |
MS, Mathematics, Adelphi University |
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, Adelphi University |
Research Interests: |
My interests are in computer and network security, cryptography, anonymity, and privacy. In network security, my areas are in denial of service and malware (DDoS, botnets), and I have some interests in anti-phishing (I contributed to the technology in the anti-phishing startup Wombat Security Technologies). For cryptography, I look at cryptographic aspects of malware, and have interests in verification of cryptographic protocols. |
Teaching: |
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Fall 2021: CSCI 493/CSCI 795 Introduction to Computer Security (combined BS/MS-level)
(Hunter College) |
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Spring 2021: CSCI 335 Software Design and Analysis 3
(Hunter College) |
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Fall 2020: CSc
81300 Software Security (CUNY
Graduate Center) |
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Spring 2020: CSc
80010 Research Survey (CUNY
Graduate Center) |
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Fall 2018 CSc
87100 Advanced Network Security and Malware
(CUNY
Graduate Center) |
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Fall 2015: CSc 87100 Advanced Network Security and Malware (CUNY Graduate Center) | |||||||||||||||||||
Recent undergraduate courses taught: Cybersecurity
Capstone I/II, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis, Advanced
Data Structures |
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Recent masters courses taught: Network Forensics, Architecture of Secure Operating Systems | |||||||||||||||||||
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- David
Dittrich, Michael Bailey, Sven Dietrich. Towards
Community Standards for Ethical Behavior in Computer
Security Research. Stevens CS Technical Report 2009-1, 20 April 2009. Most recent draft is here. |
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- David Dittrich, Sven Dietrich. Discovery techniques for P2P botnets, Stevens CS Technical Report 2008-4, September 2008. Revised April 2009. |
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- David Dittrich, Sven Dietrich. P2P as botnet command and control: a deeper insight, in Proceedings of the 2008 3rd International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Malware), pp. 46-63, October 2008 ("Best Paper" award winner) |
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- Jelena Mirkovic, Sven Dietrich, David Dittrich, Peter Reiher. Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004. |
Current students: |
- Shoufu (Sean) Luo (PhD
student, 2011-now)
- Jeremy Seideman (PhD student, 2016-now) |
Former Visiting Scholars/Postdocs: |
-
Sebastian Schmerl (Fall 2010) |
Former Students: |
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- Tadas
Vilkeliskis (Technogenesis Undergraduate Summer Scholar,
2009) |
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- Rich Catena (Post-MS,
2008-2009)
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- Ralph Mattiaccio (Summer
Scholar, 2010-2011)
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- Lionel Riviere (Visiting
MS Student, 2011)
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I am always looking for
good undergraduate and graduate students interested in,
among others, the research topics above and wanting to
pursue a degree at CUNY Hunter College (undergraduate,
masters) or at the CUNY
Graduate Center (PhD in CS). If you think you are
the right person, please send me a brief statement to that
effect, your background, and what type of projects you
might work on. Generic e-mails of the type "I'm interested
in your research" without further explanation are unlikely
to be answered. Internships are not generally offered. |
More info: |
- I was an affiliated professor at the Computer Science department at KAIST (2010-2013). |
Last updated: June 21, 2022.