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Ahren Studer
ECE - Carnegie Mellon University

4720 Forbes Ave
Cylab, cube 2128A
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
(412) 268-9120

astuder at ece dot cmu dot edu

I'm a fifth year grad student at Carnegie Mellon University. I am working with Adrian Perrig in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

My current research is focused on securing communication in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and usable group key establishment/exchange protocols.

My CV is probably out of date, but available here.

Publications

The Coremelt Attack.
Ahren Studer and Adrian Perrig. The 14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 09). (PDF BibTex)

TACKing Together Efficient Authentication, Revocation, and Privacy in VANETs.
Ahren Studer, Elaine Shi, Fan Bai, and Adrian Perrig. The 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 09). (PDF BibTex)

SPATE: Small-group PKI-less Authenticated Trust Establishment.
Yue-Hsun Lin, Ahren Studer, Hsu-Chun Hsiao, Jonathan M. McCune, King-Hang Wang, Maxwell Krohn, Phen-Lan Lin, Adrian Perrig, Hung-Min Sun, Bo-Yin Yang. The 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 09). (PDF BibTex Slides) Winner of the Best Paper Award.

A Survey to Guide Group Key Protocol Development.
Ahren Studer, Christina Johns, Jaanus Kase, Kyle O'Meara, and Lorrie Cranor. 2008 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 08). (PDF BibTex)

Flexible, Extensible, and Efficient VANET Authentication.
Ahren Studer, Fan Bai, Bhargav Bellur, and Adrian Perrig. The 6th Embedded Security in Cars Conference (ESCAR 08). (PDF BibTex)

GAnGS: Gather Authenticate 'n Group Securely.
Chia-Hsin Owen Chen, Chung-Wei Chen, Cynthia Kuo, Yan-Hao Lai, Jonathan M. McCune, Ahren Studer, Adrian Perrig, Bo-Yin Yang, and Tzong-Chen Wu. The 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 08). (PDF BibTex)

Mind Your Manners: Socially Appropriate Wireless Key Establishment for Groups.
Cynthia Kuo, Ahren Studer, and Adrian Perrig. The First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec 08). (PDF BibTex)

VANET-based Approach for Parking Space Availability.
Ramu Panayappan, Jayini Trivedi, Ahren Studer, and Adrian Perrig. The 4th ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2007).

Tuning Intrusion Detection to Work With a Two-Encryption Key Version of IPsec.
Ahren Studer, Richard Lippman, Cynthia McLain. 2007 Military Communication Conference (MILCOM 2007). (PDF BibTex)

Efficient Mechanisms to Provide Convoy Member and Vehicle Sequence Authentication in VANETs.
Ahren Studer, Mark Luk, and Adrian Perrig. The 3rd International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2007). (PDF BibTex)

Intrusion Detection for Encrypted Web Accesses.
Akira Yamada, Yutaka Miyake, Keisuke Takemori, Ahren Studer, and Adrian Perrig. The 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2007). (PDF BibTex)

Miss Rate Prediction Across Program Inputs and Cache Configurations.
Yutao Zhong, Steven G. Dropsho, Xipeng Shen, Ahren Studer, and Chen Ding. IEEE Transactions on Computers 56 (3), 2007. BibTex

Adaptive Detection of Local Scanners.
Ahren Studer and Chenxi Wang. The 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 06). (PDF BibTex) Winner of the Best Student Paper Award.

Emperical Analysis of Rate Limiting Mechanisms.
Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Ahren Studer and Chenxi Wang. The 8th International Symposium on Recent Advance in Intrusion Detection (RAID), 2005. (PDF BibTex)

Graduate Courses

Usable Privacy and Security taught by Lorrie Cranor (S08)
Probability and Statistics I taught by Ann Lee (F06)
Applied Cryptography taught by Mike Reiter (S06)
Machine Learning taught by Roni Rosenfeld (F05)
Secure Software Systems taught by Dawn Song (S05)
Network Security taught by Adrian Perrig (S05)
Intro. to Computer Security taught by Mike Reiter (F04)
Computer Networks taught by Srinivasan Seshan (F04)

Teaching Experience

TA for graduate course Network Security (S07)
TA for undergraduate course Introduction to Computer & Network Security & Applied Cryptography (S06)
TA for graduate course Introduction to Security and Police (F05,F07)

My Life Outside of Grad School

I am married. We are both graduate students at CMU. Sorry, she still hasn't made a webpage.
We have two dogs. Caleb we adopted as a puppy and named as such to be clever (celeb is Hebrew for dog). I got the idea from my neighbors. When I was growing up, they had a 100 lb German Shepherd named "puppy". Sam is an epileptic dog we adopted when he was between 2 and 7. We decided he didn't need a clever new name. You can teach an old dog new tricks, but a new name is probably a stretch.
Stop asking me. I bought the shirts here, here, here, or here.

Last updated: July 23 2009