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

Information

I am a fourth year Ph. D. student at University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science. My research is done in the DSL lab.
Advisor: Jonathan Smith
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News

• I have a new upcoming publication
  • 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.
• Two recent publications:
  • 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.
• I have been named a Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence in the 2010-2011 school year: A university wide fellowship program.
• I interned at at&t last summer with Trevor Jim

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: May 2012
Advisor: Jonathan Smith

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

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

Interests

My Interests include:

• Botnets
• Smarphone Security
• Network Security
• (Quantitative) Trust Management
• Distributed Systems
• Remote Secure Storage
• E-Voting