Vern Paxson
Information
- Email: vern@icir.org / vern@berkeley.edu / vern@corelight.com
- Papers and slides from various presentations.
- I am a Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, based out of the EECS Department (where I also have a web presence), and was the leader of the Networking and Security Group at ICSI.
- I am also a founder of Corelight, a startup that grew out of the Zeek Project.
- At UCB I taught undergraduate
Computer Security
and
Introduction to Communication Networks,
graduate
Internet/Network Security,
and
an experimental course,
Empirical Analysis.
- I'm currently advising one Ph.D. student,
Julien Piet,
and in the past I served as a Ph.D. advisor or co-advisor for students
at a number of institutes:
- Shehar Bano (Characterization of Internet censorship from multiple perspectives, Cambridge; now at Facebook)
- Weidong Cui (Automating Malware Detection by Inferring Intent, UC Berkeley; now at Microsoft Research)
- Holger Dreger (Operational Network Intrusion Detection: Resource-Analysis Tradeoffs, Technical University of Munich, now at Siemens)
- Jose Maria ("Chema") Gonzalez (Efficient Filtering Support for High-Speed Network Intrusion Detection, UC Berkeley; now at Facebook)
- Grant Ho (Thwarting Sophisticated Enterprise Attacks: Data-Driven Insights and Methods, UC Berkeley; now at University of Chicago)
- Mobin Javed (Detecting Credential Compromise in Enterprise Networks, UC Berkeley; now on the faculty at LUMS)
- Jaeyeon Jung (Real-Time Detection of Malicious Network Activity Using Stochastic Models, MIT; now at Samsung)
- Frank Li (Remedying Security Concerns at an Internet Scale, UC Berkeley; now at Georgia Tech)
- Gregor Maier (Residential Broadband Internet Traffic: Characterization and Security Analysis, Technical University of Berlin; now at NetDebug)
- Bill Marczak (Defending Dissidents from Targeted Digital Surveillance, UC Berkeley; now at CitizenLab)
- Austin Murdock (Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanning, UC Berkeley; now at SixMap)
- Ruoming Pang (Towards Understanding Application Semantics of Network Traffic, Princeton; now at Apple)
- Paul Pearce (Methods and Systems for Understanding Large-Scale Internet Threats, UC Berkeley; now at Georgia Tech)
- Philipp Richter (Empirical Analysis of the Effects and the Mitigation of IPv4 Address Exhaustion, Technical University of Berlin; now at Akamai)
- Justin Samuel (UC Berkeley; now at his startup Less Bits)
- Robin Sommer (Viable Network Intrusion Detection in High-Performance Environments, Technical University of Munich, now at our startup Corelight)
- Kurt Thomas (The Role of the Underground Economy in Social Network Spam and Abuse, UC Berkeley; now at Google)
- Matthias Vallentin (Scalable Network Forensics, UC Berkeley; now at his startup Tenzir)
- Yin Zhang (Characterizing end to end Internet Performance, Cornell; now at UT Austin)
Biography
I received my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and have been (and continue to be) a staff scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Network Research Group for many years. I began at the networking group of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in 1999.
Some of my main active research projects are CESR and Bro. The former reflects a continuation of my extensive collaboration with Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker, and their research group at UC San Diego.
My professional activities include:
- Steering committee member for USENIX ENIGMA and the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet.
- Program committee member for ACM CCS '15, USENIX ENIGMA '16 USENIX FOCI '15 and ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and crowdsharing of Big (Internet) Data (C2B(I)D) 2015.
Some former activities:
- Chair of the IRTF, 2001-2005
- Vice-chair of ACM SIGCOMM, 2003-2007
- Co-founder and steering committee member for the Internet Measurement Conference 2001-2004
- Co-founder and steering committee member of USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats.
- Program co-chair for HotNets 2007
- Program co-chair of the 2005 and 2006 IEEE Symposia on Security and Privacy
- Program chair for the 2nd Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)
- Co-founder and steering committee member of Workshop on Rapid Malcode
- Invited talks co-chair for USENIX Security 2004
- Organizer, 2003 DIMACS Workshop on Large-Scale Internet Attacks (some viewgraphs from the workshop)
- Program chair for USENIX Security 2003
- Program co-chair for SIGCOMM 2002
- Editorial board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2000-2004
- Member of the IESG 1998-2000
- glish, a language, interpreter, and C++ class library for building loosely-coupled distributed systems.
- flex, a lex replacement.
- My winning entry in the 1992 IOCCC contest.
- My most excellent Star Trek: The Next Generation script that Paramount was too stupid to buy.
Last modified: February 2017