ECE Graduate Student Wins Best Student Paper Award
July 6, 2006
ECE graduate student Ahren Studer won a best student paper award at the international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), held June 6-9 in Singapore. His paper, "Adaptive Detection of Local Scanners," was also his Master's thesis, completed under the direction of his faculty advisor, Chenxi Wang. The publication was one of only 33 accepted from 218 submissions.
Ahren's research presents and analyzes new approaches to detecting stealthy network reconnaissance. Compared to previous methods, the new schemes can detect a larger range of attackers while incurring comparable or less false alarms.
Earlier this year, Ahren was one of two recipients of the Frank J. Marshall Graduate Fellowship. Along with his advisor and fellow ECE graduate student Juan Caballero, he was also a member of one of three teams of Carnegie Mellon students and faculty to receive funding from the Pennsylvania Cyber Security Commercialization Initiative (PaCSCI). Their project was "Coral: An Infrastructure to Defend and Contain Large Scale Malware Spread on the Internet."
ECE graduate student Ahren Studer won a best student paper award at the international conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security.