Research Interests
My research interests are in the general areas of Computer Networking, Information Security, and Distributed Systems. More specifically, I am working on the following topics:
Leveraging Social Factors for Securing Networked Systems: Game theoretic modeling of social interactions in networked systems; implicit authentication using social factors for mobile computing scenarios; developing unconventional approaches for digital rights management using social factors; social accountable networking on the Internet.
Utility and Grid Computing: Resource management for Grid platforms with dedicated and nondedicated resources; resource discovery substrates for distributed Grid computing systems; trust management and incorporating user-contributed resources into a utility.
Computer Networking Toolkits: Design and implementation of user-level networking toolkits for teaching and learning networks.