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      Patrick G Traynor

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Biography Education Awards and Honors Service Work Experience Students

Biography

I earned my Ph.D and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2008 and 2004, respectively. My advisors were Patrick McDaniel and Tom La Porta. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Richmond in 2002, where I also minored in Biology and Business. My first academic position was at Georgia Tech. After receiving tenure and promotion, I moved to the Univesity of Florida as part of the UFRising Preeminence Hiring Program and co-founded the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.

In my spare time, I am an avid runner. My other interests include scuba diving, playing golf, hiking, cycling and hanging out with Sheila and our two children whenever I can. It’s also safe to say that I’m a huge college sports fan and love to watch Penn State and Florida Gator football.

I have also been extremely fortunate and have traveled to many parts of the world. From Europe and Asia to Antarctica, I love seeing new places. You can count on me having my camera (and my running shoes) with me at almost all times.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2008. Thesis Title: “Characterizing the Impact of Rigidity on the Security of Cellular Telecommunications Networks”

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, May 2004. Thesis Title: “Probabilistic Unbalanced Key Distribution and Its Effects on Group Mobility in Sensor Networks”

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Richmond, May

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, 2016.

  • John and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminence Chair in Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, 2016.

  • Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2014.

  • Best Paper, ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec); Budapest, Hungary, 2013.

  • Best Student Paper, The Information Security Conference; Passau, Germany, 2012

  • Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award, 2012

  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2010

  • United States Army “Helmet Award”, 2010

  • Georgia Institute of Technology “Thanks For Being A Great Teacher Award”, 2009, 2012, 2013

  • Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association Dissertation Award, 2007

  • Pennsylvania State University CSE Graduate Research Assistant Award, 2007

  • IBM PhD Fellowship Finalist, 2007

  • Pinch-Hitting Award, ACM/USENIX MobiSys, 2006

  • Most Entertaining WIP Presentation , ACM/USENIX MobiSys, 2006

  • AT&T Wireless Fellowship, 2005

  • Pennsylvania State University CSE Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2005

Service

Editorial Positions, Panels, and Boards

  • Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, Editorial Board Member, Spring 2009-Present

Program Chair

  • ISOC Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium: 2017, 2018

  • USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT): 2016

  • ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec): 2014

  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2012, 2013

  • USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec): 2012

Program Committees

  • USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016

  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

  • ACM Conference On Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015

  • ISOC Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

  • International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC): 2010, 2013

  • ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec): 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015

  • USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec): 2011

  • European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS): 2009, 2011

  • ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm): 2009, 2010

  • Information Security Conference (ISC): 2010

  • IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS): 2009

  • IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT): 2009

  • Computer Security Architecture Workshop (CSAW): 2008

  • IWCMC Computer and Network Security Symposium: 2009

  • IARIA International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP): 2009

  • IEEE Workshop on Network Security and Privacy (NSP): 2008

  • IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS): 2008, 2009

  • IEEE Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC): 2008

  • ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Industry and Government Track (CCS I&G): 2006, 2007

  • The Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec): 2006

  • Second International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS): 2006, 2010

  • IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security (WNS): 2006, 2007, 2008.

Panelist

  • University Telephony Research Panel, Conference on Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTCOMM): 2009

  • Embedded Systems and their Increasing Impact on Infrastructure Security, Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS): 2008

  • Cellular Network Security Panel, USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY): 2007

Conference Organization

  • Invited Talks Committee Chair - USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY): 2014

  • Works in Progress (WIP) Session Chair - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (OAKLAND): 2009

  • Works/Opinions In Progress (WOIP) Session Chair - ISOC Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2009

  • Web and Proceedings Chair - Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec): 2006

  • Web Chair - International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MOBIQUITOUS): 2006

Work Experience

Associate Professor University of Florida, 2014 - Present.
Conducted research and taught courses in the areas of security and networks, and served as co-director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.

Associate Professor Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014.
Conducted research and taught courses in the areas of security and networks.

Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008 - 2014.
Conducted research and taught courses in the areas of security and networks. Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in March 2014.

Graduate Research Intern Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ Summer 2006
Designed, developed and implemented a protocol for securely and accurately determining user location in a wireless network.

Research Assistant Penn State University, State College, PA 2005 - 2006.
Led projects in cellular network security, applied cryptography, and secure network protocols.

Research Assistant Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State, State College, PA 2004.
Worked on the integration of mobility protocols into a sensor testbed.

Teaching Assistant Penn State University, State College, PA 2004
Instructed 150 undergraduates on the basics of computing. Awarded the CSE Graduate Student Teaching Award.

Assistant/Intern Network Administrator: Ceridian Corporation, Exton, PA 2000 - 2001.
Assisted with the daily maintenance of a corporate network and migrated the system from NT4 to Win2000.

Teaching Assistant University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 1999-2000.
Assisted 50 students in the introductory and data structures classes in a lab setting.

Students

Ph.D. Students

  • Hadi Abdullah - Mobile Security
  • Logan Blue - Big Data Security
  • Jasmine Bowers - Mobile Security
  • Christian Peeters - Signal Processing and Security
  • Nolen Scaife - Retail Security
  • Luis Vargas - Data Science Security

M.S. Students

Ph.D. Alumni

  • Chaitrali Amrutkar - Software Engineer, Google
  • Henry ‘Hank’ Carter - Assistant Professor, Villanova University
  • Italo Dacosta - Research Scientist, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
  • David Dewey - Director of Research, Pindrop Security
  • Bradley Reaves - Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University

M.S. Alumni

  • Logan Blue, University of Florida, Spring 2015: UF Ph.D Program.
  • Nolen Scaife, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2014: UF Ph.D. Program.
  • Saurabh Chakradeo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2013: Facebook.
  • Chris Grayson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2013: Bishop Fox.
  • Young Seuk Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2013: Accenture.
  • Nigel Lawrence, Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2012: Solute.
  • Philip Marquardt, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2010: MIT Lincoln Labs.
  • Rishikesh Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2010: Cisco Systems.
  • Nilesh Nipane, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2010: VMWare.
  • Arunabh Verma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2011: Microsoft.