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 and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 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.

Sencun Zhu is an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering and School of Information Sciences and Technology. He received the B.S. degree in Precision Instruments from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and the M.S. degree in Signal Processing from University of Science and Technology of China, Graduate School at Beijing, in 1999. He received the PhD degree in Information Technology from George Mason University in 2004.

Sencun Zhu's research interests include network and systems security, ad- hoc and sensor networks, performance evaluation, peer-to-peer computing. Currently he is working on issues related to key management, ad hoc and sensor network security, DDoS attack prevention, and Worm detection.

Boniface Hicks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Science at St. Vincent College. He completed his Ph.D. at Penn State as a member of the SIIS Lab. His research focuses on building secure systems using security-typed languages. He continues to collaborate with Professors McDaniel and Jaeger on the FlowwolF project, developing an end-to-end (Server to Browser window) solution for strong information flow guarantees in a web system. Boniface has led work on the Jifclipse, JPmail, and Jif/SELinux projects.

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.

William Enck is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. In May of 2004 he received his BS with highest distinction and honors in Computer Engineering from Penn State. During his undergraduate studies, he investigated NoC architectures and interned at IBM Corp. in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he aided in the development of mainframe processors. In fall of 2004, William was re-enrolled at Penn State for graduate studies. Switching from hardware design to systems security research, he quickly received international recognition for his investigation of vulnerabilities in SMS-capable cellular networks. This work became the foundation of his thesis, for which he received a Masters of Science degree in May of 2006.

William remains at Penn State in pursuit of a doctoral degree. He spent the summer of 2006 on internship with AT&T Research at Shannon Labs in Florham Park, NJ aiding in the research and development of a network management tool for automatic router configuration. He is currently continuing telecommunications security research as well as investigating other areas of systems and network security.

Hung-Yuan Hsu is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, in 1999 and his B.S. in Computer and Information Science from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1997. He also received a Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taipei Institute of Technology in 1993.

Hung-Yuan's research interests mainly lie in the realm of network security. His master's thesis is developing a group oriented multi-digital signature scheme. During obligatory military service, he was responsible for managing a firewall to protect a sensitive website. His current research focuses on resisting DoS attacks in mobile ad hoc networks. He completed a summer internship at Treasure Network Inc., Palo Alto, in 2004 and exclusively received a recommendation letter from the project manager. He has been a member of the SIIS Lab since September 2005.

Dave King has been a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering since Fall 2003, and a PhD candidate since Fall 2004. He graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Spring 2003 with dual degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is a past recipient of a Lockheed Martin Graduate Fellowship.

Dave's work focuses on security at the language level; specifically, adding security guarantees to legacy code. His research has connections with programming languages, software engineering, and operating system security.

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.

Sandra has her BS and MS degrees from Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia). During her studies she worked on projects that studied the client/server and multi-agent models in detail. After graduating, Sandra worked in the areas 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 Commission.

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.

Luke St.Clair is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He graduated in December 2004 with Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a BS from the School of Engineering in Computer Science and a Mathematics minor. He is currently a member of the SIIS Lab, and holds the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship

Currently, he is investigating interesting new uses for OS Virtualization technologies like Xen. He is primarily interested in the security issues of these new uses. Additionally, much of his work revolves around policy enforcement systems (such as SELinux) and how those systems apply to OS and virtualization technologies.

Patrick Traynor, currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Richmond in May of 2002 and his MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State in May of 2004. He is currently a member of the SIIS lab and the Networking and Security Research Center.

Patrick's research is primarily focused on the security of telecommunications networks, especially concerning interconnections between such systems and the larger Internet. He has also examined issues in systems security, applied cryptography and mobile/wireless networks. In addition to publishing in the top security and mobile systems conferences, Patrick's work has also been covered by the New York Times. Patrick has also served as a program committee member for a number of conferences and workshops.

Xinran is a doctoral student in Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his M.E. and B.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001 and 1998, respectively. Prior to joining Penn State, Xinran worked as a software engineer for IBM's China Software Development Lab from 2003 to 2004 and Asiainfo from 2001 to 2003.

Xinran's research interests include software security, wireless network security and system security.

Liang Xie received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Soochow University, China in 1993. Before joining PSU in 2004, he had been working in telecommunication companies as a software engineer and team manager for more than 10 years. Liang Xie's previous employers were China Telecom, Nokia Networks and Huawei Technologies.

Liang's work was focused on communication protocols and system architectures in both wired and wireless networks. Currently he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at PSU and also a member in both the SIIS lab and the NSRC center. His current research focuses on security issues in various types of computer networks, including P2P and Overlay Network Security, Ad-hoc and Sensor Network Security, Operating System Security, DDoS Attack Prevention, Worm Detection, and Secure Routing Algorithms.

Yi Yang is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Central China Normal University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. She is interested in networking and network security. Her current research focuses on sensor network security.