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.

 

Latest News & Milestones

Some recently published papers:
• Relays, Base Stations, and Meshes: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure (Banerjee, Corner, Towsley, Levine ). In Proc. ACM Mobicom. Sept 2008. To appear.
• Enabling Interactive Applications in Hybrid Networks (Balasubramanian, Levine, Venkataramani). In Proc. ACM Mobicom. Sept 2008. To appear.
• Interactive WiFi Connectivity for Moving Vehicles (Balasubramanian, Mahajan, Venkataramani, Levine, and Zahorjan). In Proc. ACM Sigcomm. August 2008. To appear.
• Quantifying Resistance to the Sybil Attack. (Margolin and Levine). In Proc. Financial Cryptography (FC), February 2008
• Passive-Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems. (Wright, Adler, Levine, and Shields.) ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2008.
• Study of a Bus-Based Disruption Tolerant Network: Mobility Modeling and Impact on Routing (Zhang, Kurose, Levine, Towsley, and Zhang). In Proc. ACM MobiCom. Sept. 2007
• DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem (Balasubramanian, Levine, and 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.

 

• Baby on the way!!
• I'm serving as a member of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Technical Advisory Board created by joint agreement of the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking and MySpace.com.
• My undergrad, The Univ. at Albany, has awarded me the 2008 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