Brian Neil Levine   Privacy, Internetworking, Security, and Mobile Systems (PRISMS) Lab

Associate Professor Undergraduate Program Director Dept. of Computer Science UMass Amherst

Research

The ubiquity of computers has tremendous potential for new networking opportunities, but it also raises formidable security threats. 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. My main research topics involve these challenges:

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

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

 

Upcoming/Recent Talks

December 4: Speaker as part of the Fall 2009 UMass Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series (Amherst, MA)

September 10: Speaker at ARO Workshop on Digital Forensics, "Challenges to Digital Forensics Posed by Mobile Systems and Ubiquitous Computing" (Washington DC)

July 20, 21: Tutorial speaker on "An Overview Network Investigations" at NeFX 2009; Moderator for panel on "Investigations of Mobile Phones" at NeFX 2009 (New York, NY)

April 28: Commonwealth College Pizza & Prof Night: "Investigation of Crimes involving Digital Evidence" (Amherst, MA)

 

Latest News & Milestones

Selected Recent Publications:
• DTN Routing as a Resource Allocation Problem. (Balasubramanian, Levine, and Venkataramani). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, To appear 2010.
• An Energy-Efficient Architecture for DTN Throwboxes. (Banerjee, Corner, and Levine). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, To appear 2010.
• DEX: Digital Evidence Provenance Supporting Reproducibility and Comparison (Levine, Liberatore). In Proc. Annual DFRWS Conference Aug 2009
• Relays, Base Stations, and Meshes: Enhancing Mobile Networks with Infrastructure (Banerjee, Corner, Towsley, Levine). In Proc. ACM Mobicom. Sept 2008.
• Enabling Interactive Applications in Hybrid Networks (Balasubramanian, Levine, Venkataramani). In Proc. ACM Mobicom. Sept 2008.
• Passive-Logging Attacks Against Anonymous Communications Systems. (Wright, Adler, Levine, Shields) ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), 2008.

 

• Co-Founder/Steering Committee of the NeFX Workshop. Co-Chair of 2009 workshop.
• Member of the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security's Privacy Working Group (PWG); Massachusetts State Secretary Kevin Burke, Chairman
• I served 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