Brian Neil Levine

Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science UMass Amherst

Privacy, Internetworking, Security, and Mobile Systems (PRISMS) Laboratory

Research

To a greater extent each day, the presence of computers has diversified from sitting on our desktops to filling our pockets and inhabiting our buildings and open spaces. The ubiquity of computers has tremendous potential for new networking opportunities, but it also raises formidable security threats. I believe a grand challenge we face is the protection of our privacy while simultaneously increasing ubiquitous interactions using a network of peers. This tension is complicated by the needs of law enforcement to investigate crimes involving digital evidence. Accordingly, my main research topics are:

• Forensics and Privacy
• Mobility
• Peer-to-peer networking

You can see a list of all of my publications online.

 

Check out my posts to the CS Events Blog, which includes news and info on diversifying computer science.

Latest News & Milestones

• ViFi: Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Moving Vehicles (A. Balasubramanian, R. Mahajan, V. Arun, B.N. Levine, and J. Zahorjan.) In Proc. ACM Sigcomm. August 2008. To appear.
• Quantifying Resistance to the Sybil Attack. (N. Boris Margolin and B.N. Levine). In Proc. Financial Cryptography (FC), February 2008
• Passive-Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems. (M. Wright, M. Adler, B.N. Levine, and C. Shields.) ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2008. To appear
• Web Search From a Bus (A. Balasubramanian, Y. Zhou, W.B. Croft, B.N. Levine, and A. Venkataramani). ACM CHANTS Sept. 2007
• Study of a Bus-Based Disruption Tolerant Network: Mobility Modeling and Impact on Routing ( Xiaolan Zhang, Jim Kurose, Levine, Don Towsley, and Honggang Zhang). In Proc. ACM MobiCom. Sept. 2007
• MORA Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption-Tolerant Networks (B. Burns, O. Brock, and B.N. Levine). Elsevier Ad hoc Networks Journal, June 2008.
• Surviving Attacks on Disruption-Tolerant Networks without Authentication (J. Burgess, G. Bissias, M. Corner, and B.N. Levine). In Proc. MobiHoc, September 2007.
• DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem (Aruna Balasubramanian, B.N. Levine, and Arun Venkataramani). In Proc. ACM Sigcomm. August 2007.
• Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems, (Patrick Stahlberg, Gerome Miklau, and B.N. Levine). In Proc. ACM SIGMOD, June 2007.

 

• My undergrad, The Univ. at Albany, has awarded me the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. Go Danes!
• Marc Liberatore graduates with a PhD!
• I've been awarded a 2007 UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Outstanding Teacher Award.
• I've been invited to give the Keynote Talk at the 2006 Workshop on Networking in Public Transport in Waterloo, Ontario.
  
• I have joined the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
• Mark Claypool (WPI) and I are co-chairs of ACM NOSSDAV 2006.
• My first PhD student, Matt Wright, has started as a tenure-track assistant professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at Univ. of Texas at Arlington. Go Matt!
• I've been selected as a University of Massachusetts Lilly Teaching Fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. The program "enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence".
• "An Analysis of the Degradation of Anonymous Protocols" (Wright, Adler, Levine and Shields) received the Outstanding Paper award at NDSS 2002.
• 2002 NSF Career Grant recipient