View ISTS Administrative Staff ISTS Faculty AffiliatesISTS Fellows and Postdocs
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Ajit Appari Vincent Berk Sergey Bratus Scott Dynes Apu Kapadia |
Michael Locasto Mirco Musolesi Massimiliano Pala Minho Shin Xia Zhao |
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Ajit Appari, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies,
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Ajit is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck. His research, broadly speaking, focuses on risk measurement and risk management of information technology investments. Currently he is working on the center's research projects entitled "Information Risk in Data-Oriented Enterprises" and "Business Rationale for Cyber Security." He recently graduated from Syracuse University with a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Management Information Systems). He also holds a Master of Technology in Quality, Reliability and Operation Research from Indian Statistical Institute, India. Before pursuing his PhD he worked with Honeywell Technology Solutions Laboratory at Bangalore, a subsidiary of Honeywell Inc. USA, as Principal Software Engineer. His industry expertise includes quality management system deployment and assessment, and application of statistical techniques for process and product quality improvement.
Email: Ajit.Appari[at]Tuck.Dartmouth.edu |
Vincent Berk, Ph.D.
Lecturer/Researcher
Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering
Vincent Berk is a researcher and lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has a Ph.D in Computer Science from Leiden University in the Netherlands. At Dartmouth, Vincent teaches Computer Architecture for graduate students (ENGS116 and COSC107) and has delivered dozens of research lectures at universities and conferences around the world. His specialties are Process Query Systems, computer architecture, parallel computing, and computer graphics.
Email: Vincent.Berk[at]Dartmouth.eduWebsite: www.pqsnet.net/~vince
Sergey Bratus, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science
Sergey Bratus is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College where he has taught the “Computer Security and Privacy” course. His current research focuses on applications of machine learning and AI to intrusion analysis. He is interested in all aspects of Unix security, in particular in Linux kernel security, and detection and reverse engineering of Linux malware. His other interests are in the application of Natural Language Processing and P2P networking applications for Semantic Web initiatives.
Sergey received his undergraduate education at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (AKA, Moscow Phystech), and his Ph.D. at Northeastern University (1999). Before coming to Dartmouth, he worked at BBN Technologies on statistical learning for text understanding and similar topics.
Email: Sergey.Bratus[at]Dartmouth.edu |
Scott Dynes, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Scott Dynes has been studying the economic of information security for close to four years. His research is focused on how firms identify and manage the risks they face as a result of using the information infrastructure to enable business strategies and run business operations. He has conducted numerous field studies, and has published and presented many papers about the drivers and incentives for firms to invest in information security, as well as the economic consequences of information security failures at the firm and sector level. He also studies critical infrastructure protection and the impact of government policy in managing the risk resulting from cyber events. Scott holds a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.
E-Mail: sdynes[at]Dartmouth.edu |
Apu Kapadia, Ph.D.
ISTS Fellow
Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science
Apu Kapadia received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in October 2005. For his dissertation research, Apu received a four-year High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship from the Department of Energy.
Following his Ph.D., Apu joined Dartmouth College as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Institute for Security Technology Studies. He is working with Professors David Kotz and Sean Smith and is interested in topics related to systems' security, usable models for privacy, privacy enhancing technologies such as anonymizing networks, and applied cryptography.
Email: Apu.C.Kapadia[at]Dartmouth.edu |
Michael Locasto, Ph.D.
ISTS Fellow
Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science
Michael received a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in May 2002 and a MS and PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University. He joins ISTS as a postdoctoral Research Fellow working with Professors Sean Smith on the SISMAT project and David Kotz on the MAP project.
Michael is interested in exploring methods for applying machine intelligence to a variety of security mechanisms. In particular, he has researched ways to make intrusion defense systems automatic, correct, and adaptive.
Website: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~locasto
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Mirco Musolesi, Ph.D.
ISTS Fellow
Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science
Mirco Musolesi is an ISTS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, where he also is a member of the Sensor Networks Group. Micro received a PhD in Computer Science from University College London in May 2007 and a Laurea in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Bologna in December 2002. Mirco is currently working on the MetroSense Project which is a collaborative project between Dartmouth College's ISTS, Computer Science, and the Thayer School of Engineering, Columbia University's Electrical Engineering, and Intel Corporation and Nokia Research. MetroSense is a new wireless sensor edge network for the future Internet based on the concept of "people-centric sensing" at scale.
Email: Musolesi[at]cs.dartmouth.edu
Website: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~musolesi/
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Massimiliano Pala, Ph.D.
ISTS Fellow
Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science
Massimiliano Pala is currently working as a Research Associate in the Computer Science department at Dartmouth College on the PKI Interoperability and Usability Project under the guidance of Professor Sean Smith. In 2003, he joined the Ph.D. program at the Poilitecnico di Torino in PKI and Security, working with Professor Antonio Lioy. In October 2005, he worked for six months for the PKI/Trust Lab at Dartmouth College collaborating on the research activities of Professor Sean Smith’s team. Prior to that, he worked for several companies as a PKI/Security consultant.
Massimiliano started the OpenCA project in 1998 and continues its development and management. He holds a Laurea (equivalent to a BS and MS) in Computer Engineering from the University of Modena, Italy.
Massimiliano’s research interests are in the field of new security architectures and protocols development, trust management models and e-Government. An important aspect of his research is the improvement of security tools usability, e.g. digital certificates, PMIs, identity tokens.
Email: Massimiliano.Pala[at]Dartmouth.edu |
Minho Shin, Ph.D.
ISTS Fellow
Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science
Minho Shin recently earned his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in November 2007. His graduate research focused on the performance and the security of wireless networks. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Statistics from the Seoul National University in 1998 and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2003. He joins ISTS as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with David Kotz for MetroSense project.
Website: www.cs.umd.edu/~mhshin/
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Xia Zhao, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Xia's research interests span economic and organizational aspects of information systems and electronic commerce. She specializes in information security and risk management within and/or across organizations. Currently she is working on the center's research project entitled "Information Risk in Data-Oriented Enterprises." She acquired her Ph.D. in information systems from the University of Texas at Austin, and her MS in control theory and control engineering and BS in automation from Tsinghua University.
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