Patrick McDaniel is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University and co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory. Patrick's research efforts centrally focus on network, telecommunications, and systems security, language-based security, and technical and public policy issues in digital media. Patrick was awarded the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and has chaired several top conferences in security including, among others, the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and the 2005 USENIX Security Symposium. Patrick is the editor-in-chief of the ACM Journal Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), and serves as associate editor of the journals ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Computers. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. in 1996 at the University of Michigan, Patrick was a software architect and program manager in the telecommunications industry.

Trent Jaeger is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University and director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1997 where he studied mechanisms and policies for controlling the execution of mobile code. Prior to joining Penn State, Trent was a research staff member in the Security and Networking Department at IBM Research in the T. J. Watson Research Center.

Trent has interests in the security mechanisms and policies of operating systems, as well as an interest in source code analysis for improving security. Trent has been an active member of the Linux community, including the contribution of code to the Linux Security Modules (LSM) framework for mandatory access control, tools for testing the correctness of the LSM framework prior to its inclusion in Linux 2.6, and techniques for policy and source code analysis for the SELinux community. Trent's current goals are to build tools that enable practical retrofitting of a variety of security functions in programs and the development of a distributed, trusted reference monitor that enables coherent security controls across distributed systems. Trent has participated in the program committees of several major security conferences, and has been the Program and General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and Program Chair of the ACM Conference on Communications Security (Industry Track) in 2003.

Adam Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He completed his B.Sc. at McGill University and his S.M. and Ph.D. at M.I.T. under the supervision of Madhu Sudan. His research focuses on cryptography and its connections with information theory, statistics, and coding theory. Most recently he has been working on protocols for handling noisy keys in cryptography, such as those based on biometrics, and on privacy-preserving methods for publishing aggregate statistical data.

William Enck is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his B.S. with highest distinction and honors in Computer Engineering from Penn State in 2004 under the supervision of Dr. Chita R. Das and his M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State in 2006 under the supervision of Dr. Patrick McDaniel.

William has worked in various aspects of computer systems. His undergraduate research focused on NoC architectures and in 2003 he interned at IBM Corp. in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he aided in the development of mainframe processors. He also spent many summers working for a small ISP in Lebanon, PA where he administered servers and installed terrestrial wireless broadband equipment. William's graduate studies have focused on the security of networks and computer systems, and his investigation of vulnerabilities in SMS-capable cellular networks, of which formed the basis of his M.S. thesis, received international recognition in both academic venues and the press.

William's research primarily focuses on the security of mobile phone operating system architectures, with a current focus on the Android platform. However, his interests continue to span the vast area of systems security.

Kevin Butler is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his M.S. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2003 and his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, in 1999. He is a past recipient of a University Graduate Fellowship as well as the C. Norwood Wherry Graduate Fellowship in Engineering at Penn State.

Kevin has previously worked as a network operator at UUNET Canada in Toronto, Ontario, and as a research scientist in the Applied Research group at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) in Morristown, NJ. He completed an extended internship in the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Labs-Research in Florham Park, NJ, working on efficient cryptographic constructions to secure Internet routing with Dr. Patrick McDaniel, now his advisor at Penn State.

Kevin's research primarily focusses on systems and storage security. He has also closely examined security and policy considerations for interdomain routing, and has investigated issues in secure hardware, privacy, and worm propagation across the Internet and in wireless networks. Kevin has served on numerous program and organizing committees for conferences and workshops, and is the Submissions Chair for the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

Stephen McLaughlin joined the SIIS lab in Fall 2007 and the PhD program at The Pennsylvania State University in Spring 2008. He received his BS in computer science and a minor in mathematics from The Pennsylvania State University in 2007. He is interested the security applications of novel storage technologies.

Thomas Moyer is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Enginering at Penn State. He is completing his MS thesis and will continue with his PhD. Thomas received his BS in Computer Engineering from Penn State in Spring 2006. During the summer of 2007, he interned at AT&T Research at Shannon Labs in Florham Park, NJ, where he aided in the design and development of an automated tool for router configuration. His current work is in virtual machine security.

Divya Muthukumaran is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a member of the SIIS Laboratory. She graduated with distinction from Anna University in India with a BE in Computer Science and Engineering. She was employed with Tata Consultancy services as an Assistant Systems Engineer prior to pursuing graduate studies at PSU. She is currently working on Mobile phone system security.

Machigar Ongtang is a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She graduated from Mahidol University, Thailand with B.Eng. in Computer Engineering with first class honors. In September 2004, she received her M.Sc. with Distinction from the University of Warwick, UK. Machigar entered the PhD program at Penn State in Spring 2006. Her initial research focused on mobile database, transaction management, and mobile agents paradigm.

Machigar joined the SIIS laboratory in Spring 2008. She is now exploring the area of pervasive storage, context-aware security, and the security of telecommunication networks.

Devin J. Pohly is a Ph.D. student in the SIIS lab. He received his baccalaureate in computer science summa cum laude from Messiah College in 2008 and is starting his graduate work at Penn State in the fall of 2009. Previously he has worked on projects analyzing the security of applications and embedded systems networks, and he plans to continue his studies in the field of vulnerability analysis.

Sandra is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She has BS and MS degrees from Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia). Her undergraduate research was on projects that studied the client/server and multi-agent models. After graduating, Sandra worked in the area of networks and IT management. A couple of years ago she went back to Los Andes as an Instructor, and became interested in computer and network security and decided to pursue a Ph.D. Sandra then came to Penn State sponsored by the Fulbright.

Josh Schiffman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also a member of the SIIS Laboratory. He graduated with honors from The Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Computer Science and minors in Mathematics and Japanese Language. His undergraduate research was in spatial database queries, but now focuses on system security and trusted computing.

Hayawardh Vijayakumar is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering starting Fall 2007 and a member of the SIIS laboratory from Fall 2008. He graduated with distinction from Anna University in Chennai, India with a BE in Computer Science and Engineering in Spring 2007. His general interest is in systems security and he has previous work in network security during his undergraduate studies. He is currently working on security in virtual machines.

Youngtae Youn is a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is a member of the SIIS Laboratory and Theory Group. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea and MS in communication engineering from POSTECH, Korea. He is interested in theoretical analysis of cryptography, but also focuses on practical cryptographic systems after joining the SIIS laboratory.

Guruprasad Jakka is a Masters student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He graduated with distinction from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal (India) in 2005 with a B.E in Information Technology. After graduation, he worked for a brief period in Huawei Technologies, India, in the Telecom domain. Later, he moved to Network Appliance, Bangalore, where he worked on its proprietary WAFL File system used on all its storage appliances.

Guruprasad joined the SIIS lab in Spring 2008. His current research interests are storage and systems security.

Damien Octeau joined the Master of Science program in the department of Computer Science and Engineering in Fall 2008 and the SIIS Laboratory in Spring 2009. He received his BS from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (Lyon, France). He is now taking advantage of an agreement between Ecole Centrale de Lyon and the Pennsylvania State University: when he graduates from Penn State he will also receive his Master's degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon.