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Institute Affiliations:
Center for Networked Systems
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Contact Information:
Phone:
858-822-4895
Email:
savage@cs.ucsd.edu
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| | Stefan Savage - Assistant Professor
Computer security issues (especially worms, viruses, bonnets, intrusion detection and
denial-of-service attacks), wireless networking, and operating system kernel design.
As director of the Collaborative Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses (CCIED),
Professor Savage is in a unique position to speak about current and emerging Internet security threats. The center,
a collaboration between UCSD and the International Computer Science Institute, is one of four federally funded NSF
CyberTrust Research Centers and focuses on large-scale Internet threats including worms, viruses, botnets and
denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. With additional support from its industrial partners, including Microsoft, Intel,
Hewlett-Packard, and AT&T, CCIED tracks world-wide Internet attack activity and develops fully-automated defense
systems for both network and host environments. In addition, Professor
Savage's research has included operating
system kernel design, disk array design, automated detection of race conditions, network measurement tools and
overlay analysis, high-availability Internet systems and wireless network protocol analysis.
Capsule Bio:
Stefan Savage joined the Jacobs School Computer Science and Engineering faculty in January
2001. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he focused both on network protocol design and
operating system structuring. Savage was a co-founder of Seattle-based startup Asta Networks, which specialized in
denial-of-service defenses, and of San Diego-based NetSift Inc, which developed high-speed network-based worm
defenses (recently acquired by Cisco Systems). He continues to provide regular guidance to the public and private
sectors relating to Internet security. His current research interests include automated network monitoring and
defenses and a variety of problems related to 802.11-based wireless network design.
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