I am a PhD Candidate advised by Dr.
Trent Jaeger in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at Penn State University. I am the lead graduate student of the
Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security
(SIIS) Laboratory, where my duties are to coordinate the activities of the
lab, run weekly meetings for members, and meet with students individually for
mentoring and development of leadership and research skills.
My research interests include Operating System and virtualization security, trustworthy computing, and building verifiably secure cloud computing infrastructures. My current research focuses on distributed system security including application integrity and information flow security. In particular, I have been examining how to ensure applications running on highly scalable virtualized infrastructures can be proven secure with respect to specific security and integrity criteria. In the past I have researched trusted computing topics including ways of using the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to report information flow policies and establish trust between machines on an Internet scale. During my undergraduate program, I explored various research topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Databases.
My research interests include Operating System and virtualization security, trustworthy computing, and building verifiably secure cloud computing infrastructures. My current research focuses on distributed system security including application integrity and information flow security. In particular, I have been examining how to ensure applications running on highly scalable virtualized infrastructures can be proven secure with respect to specific security and integrity criteria. In the past I have researched trusted computing topics including ways of using the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to report information flow policies and establish trust between machines on an Internet scale. During my undergraduate program, I explored various research topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Spatial Databases.