Research Interests

Computer security and applied cryptography, including security in systems, networking, and databases. Applications of program analysis, model checking, and software engineering techniques to computer security. Theory of cryptology. Algorithms, especially randomized algorithms, algorithms for networking and large datasets.

You may find a list of my technical papers and publications here.

PhD Students

I'm fortunate to work with a group of outstanding students: John Bethencourt, David Brumley, Juan Caballero, Debin Gao, Cody Hartwig, Min Gyung Kang, James Newsome, Pongsin Pookansam, Shobha Venkataraman.

Current Teaching

• 18487 Intro to Computer Security and Cryptography

Professional Activities

I'm serving on the steering committee for:

• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)

I've co-organized the following workshops/conferences:

• NSF Workshop on Next Generation Secure Internet, July 2005.
• DHS/ARO Workshop on Malware Detection, Aug 2005.
• DIMACS Workshop on Cryptography: Theory and Practice, 2004.

I've served on the program committees for the following conferences:

• EuroSys 2007
• ACM Computer and Communication Security Symposium (CCS) 2006
• Symposium on Recent Advance in Intrusion Detection (RAID) 2006
• Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) 2006
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2006
• ACM Computer and Communication Security Symposium (CCS) 2005
• Symposium on Recent Advance in Intrusion Detection (RAID) 2005
• Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) 2005
• Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2005
• IEEE InfoCom 2005
• ACM Sensor Networks & Systems Conference (SenSys) 2004
• ACM Computer & Communication Security Symposium (CCS) 2004
• 7th Information Security Conference, June 2004
• International Applied Cryptography and Networking Security Conference, June 2004
• 13th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2004
• 11th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2003
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2003
• 12th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2003
• 10th Annual Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, February 2003

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Contact Info

Office: CIC 2122
dawnsong@cmu.edu
412-268-4268 (O)
412-268-6779 (Fax)
Assistant: Helen Borek-Conti (412-268-3360)