email: aviv at cis dot upenn dot edu
gpg key id 0x07372203

Information

I am a fifth year Ph. D. student at University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science (graduation, August 2012).
My research is done in the DSL lab.
Advisor: Jonathan Smith and Matt Blaze

CV: pdf html
Job Application: supplemental material (pdf)

News

• I just completed a new paper:
  • Experiences in Teaching an Educational User-Level Operating Systems Implementation Project. Adam J. Aviv, Vin Mannino, Thanat Owlarn, Seth Shannin, Kevin Xu, and Boon Thau Loo. University of Pennsylvania Technical Report MS-CIS-12-02. Januaray, 2012. (Currently under submission)
• I just completed an internship at at&t for the summer of 2011 working with Trevor Jim, Shobah Venkataraman and Oliver Spatscheck
• Mengmeng Liu and I are organizing the Systems Seminar. If you are interested in presenting at the seminar, feel free to contact Mengmeng or myself.
• I was a Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence in the 2010-2011 school year: A university wide fellowship program.
• Recent publications:
  • Challenges in Experimenting with Botnet Detection Systems. Adam J. Aviv and Andreas Haeberlen. In the proceedings 4th Workshop on Cyber Security Evaluation and Testing (CSET'11). August 8, 2011.
  • Spam Mitigation using Spatio-Temporal Reputation from Blacklist History. Andrew West, Adam J. Aviv, Jian Chang, and Insup Lee. To appear in the 26th Annual Computer Security Application Conference (ACSAC'10). December 6-10, 2010.
  • Evading Cellular Data Monitoring with Human Movement Networks. Adam J. Aviv, Micah Sherr, Matt Blaze, and Jonathan M. Smith. In proceeding of the 5th Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec'10). August 11, 2010. (Acceptance Rate: 19%)
  • Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens. Adam J. Aviv, Katherine Gibson, Evan Mossop, Matt Blaze, Jonathan M. Smith. In the proceedings of the 4th Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technogies (WOOT'10). August 10, 2010.

Contact

Office: Levine 613
Snail Mail: 3330 Walnut St., Levine 302, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6309

Education

Ph. D. in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Expected Graduation Date: August 2012
Advisor: Jonathan Smith and Matt Blaze

M.S. Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania
Graduation Date: January 2010
Advisor: Jonathan Smith and Matt Blaze

B.S. Columbia University major in Computer Science.
Graduation Date: May 2007
Advisor: Angelos Keromytis

Interests

My Interests include:

• Security
• Privacy
• Smarphone Security
• Networks
• Distributed Systems
• Botnets
• E-Voting