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Research

My main research topics involve these challenges:

• Center for Forensics (including privacy work)
• Mobility: DOME Projects
• Peer-to-peer networking

You can see a list of all of my publications online.

 

Latest News and Pubs

• I've been awarded a UMass College of Natural Sciences 2011 Outstanding Research Award. Presented each year to two faculty from across 16 departments.
• Selected Recent Publications:
  • Concurrent Wi-Fi for Mobile Users: Analysis and Measurements (Soroush, Gilbert, Banerjee, Levine, Corner, Cox) To appear in Proc. ACM CoNext, December 2011.
  • Forensic Investigation of the OneSwarm Anonymous Filesharing System (Prusty, Levine, Liberatore) To appear in Proc. ACM CCS, October 2011.
  • Forensic Triage for Mobile Phones with DEC0DE (Walls, Learned-Miller, Levine) To appear in Proc. USENIX Security, August 2011
  • Effective Digital Forensics Research is Investigator-Centric (Walls, Levine, Liberatore, Shields) To appear in Proc. USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, August 2011
  • Assessing the Vulnerability of Replicated Network Services (Bissias, Levine, Sitaraman). In Proc. ACM CoNext, November 2010
  • Strengthening Forensic Investigations of Child Pornography on P2P Networks (Liberatore, Levine, Shields). In Proc. ACM CoNext, November 2010

   

• TPC Co-Chair of the the DFRWS 2012 Annual Forensics Conference with Clay Shields.
• In 2011, I was Co-Chair of ACM Mobicom 2011 with Thyaga Nandagopal, and Co-Chair of DFRWS 2011 with Florian Buchholz..

Milestones

• Aruna Balasubramanian graduates with a PhD! Now a postdoc at UW.
• George Bissias graduates with a PhD! Now a scientist at Fluent Mobile.
• We created a video about UMass DOME:
• RoundUp software now used in 50 states and several federal agencies. As of June 2011, it has been the basis of over 3,000 executed search warrants focused on child pornography posession/distribution. The project is featured in a DoJ report to congress. See a collection of news stories based on UMass tools.
• Co-Founder/Steering Committee of the NeFX 2009 Workshop.
• Member of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Privacy Working Group (PWG); Massachusetts Secretary Mary Elizabeth Heffernan, Chair
• My undergrad, The Univ. at Albany, has awarded me the 2008 Alumni Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Go Danes!
• Marc Liberatore graduates with a PhD!
• I've been awarded a 2007 UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award.
• I've been invited to give the Keynote Talk at the 2006 Workshop on Networking in Public Transport in Waterloo, Ontario.
  
• I was an associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 2005--2010.
• Mark Claypool (WPI) and I are co-chairs of ACM NOSSDAV 2006.
• My first PhD student, Matt Wright, has started as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at Univ. of Texas at Arlington. Go Matt!
• I've been selected as a University of Massachusetts Lilly Teaching Fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. The program "enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence".
• "An Analysis of the Degradation of Anonymous Protocols" (Wright, Adler, Levine and Shields) received the Outstanding Paper award at NDSS 2002.
• 2002 NSF Career Grant recipient