Juan Caballero

Ph.D Candidate
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Carnegie Mellon University

Contact:

Phone: (412) 268-9393
Address:
Collaborative Innovation Center (CIC)
4720 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
USA

I am a fourth year Ph.D candidate at ECE in Carnegie Mellon University advised by Professor Dawn Song.
My interest lies in Computer Security and Networking with an emphasis on Network Security. I have done research
on Protocol Reverse Engineering, Fingerprinting, Network Robustness against failures, Anomaly Detection,
Worm Detection, and Intrusion Detection.
Currently, I am a member of the Bitblaze project, which applies binary analysis techniques to different security problems.

Before coming to CMU, I received a Telecommunication Engineer degree from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) in
Madrid, Spain and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in
Stockholm, Sweden.
During my studies I have been fortunate to work with many outstanding people, including Chenxi Wang at Forrester Research,
Christopher Olston at Yahoo Research, Vern Paxson at ICSI / UC Berkeley,
Jennifer Yates and Jia Wang at AT&T Research Labs, George Liu and Gerald "Chip" Maguire at KTH.

In October 2003 I was awarded the La Caixa Foundation Fellowship, arguably the most prestigious fellowship for
international graduate studies awarded in Spain.

Starting in May 2002 and for two years I held positions as R&D Engineer and Systems Engineer in Orange (formerly Amena),
a spanish cell phone carrier.

Publications

[NDSS 2008] Would Diversity Really Increase the Robustness of the Routing Infrastructure against Software Defects? PDF Bibtex
Juan Caballero, Theocharis Kampouris, Dawn Song, and Jia Wang.
To appear in Proceedings of the 15th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, February 2008.
We also have an extended, though less polished, version containing all the algorithms and more results PDF
[CCS 2007] Polyglot: Automatic Extraction of Protocol Message Format using Dynamic Binary Analysis. PDF Bibtex Slides
Juan Caballero, Heng Yin, Zhenkai Liang, and Dawn Song.
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Alexandria, VA, October 2007.
[USENIX Security 2007] Towards Automatic Discovery of Deviations in Binary Implementations with
Applications to Error Detection and Fingerprint Generation. PDF Bibtex
David Brumley, Juan Caballero, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, and Dawn Song.
In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, August 2007.
* Conference Best Paper Award
[DIMVA 2007] Distributed Evasive Scan Techniques and Countermeasures. PDF Bibtex
Min Gyung Kang, Juan Caballero, and Dawn Song.
In Proceedings of the Fourth GI International Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment,
Lucerne, Switzerland, July 2007.
[NDSS 2007] FiG: Automatic Fingerprint Generation. PDF Bibtex
Juan Caballero, Shobha Venkataraman, Pongsin Poosankam, Min Gyung Kang, Dawn Song and Avrim Blum.
In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, February 2007.
[HOTNETS 2006] Black-box Anomaly Detection: Is it Utopian? PDF Bibtex
Shobha Venkataraman, Juan Caballero, Dawn Song, Avrim Blum and Jennifer Yates.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets-V), Irvine, CA, November 2006.
Experimental Study of a Network Access Server for a Public WLAN Access Network. PDF
Juan Caballero and Daniel Malmkvist.
M.Sc. thesis at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, January 2002.