Prof. Prem Devanbu received his B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Light Current) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1977, and his M.S and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rutgers University, in Piscataway, N.J. in 1979 and 1994. After 18 years at Bell Laboratories, and its descendants, he joined the Computer Science Department at the Unversity of California, Davis, where he is now an Associate Professor. His research interests include software tools, software reuse, legacy systems, hardware support for software engineering tasks, and approaches to building trust in software systems, tools and processes. He has served on several occasions on the program committees of ACM SIGSOFT and the ICSE conferences, and was past co-program chair of the Fifth International Conference of Software Reuse. He has co-edited special issues of the IEEE Transactions on Software, and the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
Dr. Vern Paxson is a senior scientist with the AT&T Center for Internet Research at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, and a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focusses on Internet measurement and network intrusion detection. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and has been active in the IETF, chairing working groups on performance metrics, TCP implementation, and endpoint congestion management, as well as serving on the IESG as an area director for Transport. He co-chairs the SIGCOMM 2002 conference, and has served on the program committees for SIGCOMM, the USENIX Technical Conference, the USENIX Security Symposium, and the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) Symposium. His paper on the Bro intrusion detection system was awarded Best Paper at the 1998 USENIX Security Symposium, and his coauthor Yin Zhang received the Best Student Paper award at the 2000 USENIX Security Symposium for their work on detecting backdoors.
Dr. Stuart Staniford has spent the last eight years doing research in network intrusion detection, in detecting distributed attacks such as worms and scans, in locating attackers over the Internet, and in intrusion detection interoperability. He co-chairs the IETF's intrusion detection exchange format working group (IDWG), is a member of the editorial board for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project, and serves on several conference and workshop program committees in the area of intrusion detection. Stuart was educated at the University of Oxford, the University of Sussex, and the University of California at Davis. He obtained a PhD in theoretical particle physics from UC Davis in 1993, and a MS in Computer Science there in 1995. He was a computer security researcher at UC Davis until starting his own company, Silicon Defense, in 1998. Stuart is President of the company, which does research in computer security and provides commercial services in the area of computer intrusion detection.
Dr. Stuart Stubblebine is an independent consultant with Stubblebine Consulting, LLC. Previously, he was a cryptographer and Vice President at CertCo, a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs, research professor at University of Southern California, and computer scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute. He earned his Ph.D.degree from University of Maryland in 1992 where his dissertation was on cryptographic protocols. He earned a MS degree from University of Arizona in 1988 specializing in computer networking. His BS was a double major in computer science and mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 1983.
Dr. Stubblebine has been active with numerous conferences and journals in security and software engineering. He currently serves as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. He recently co-edited a special issue for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology on Software Engineering and Security. His research interests are rooted in the design, analysis, and formal verification of cryptographic protocols. He has contributed extensively to the areas of electronic commerce, privacy, anonymity, authentication and authorization, trusted third party services, recent-secure revocation in distributed systems, public key infrastructure, and secure software engineering techniques.
Dr. Stubblebine is a member of IEEE and ACM.