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Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, Us

• Designed and prototyped various analytics for botnet detection from DNS traffic.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Network Security:• Designed and developed analytics for detection of malicious URLs using graph-based approaches and supervised learning classification techniques• Designed and developed analytics for detection of malicious domain names by identifying anomalies in users behavior• Designed and developed analytics to identify anomalies in HTTP headers, used by botnets for command and control communication• Developed analytics for generating threat profiles based on their network traffic. The key applications of these profiles are behavioral-based malware activity detection and protocol reverse engineeringNetwork Traffic Classification:• Developed technique to automatically generate signatures for network binary protocols (e.g. DNS, RTP and popular peer-to-peer applications)• Developed and prototyped system for classification of mobile apps network traffic • Developed and prototyped techniques to alert on the leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) in mobile apps network traffic

West Lafayette, In, Us

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks:• Analyzed terabytes of P2P traffic traces from large Internet service providers.• Developed techniques to identify anomalies in P2P systems.• Designed and implemented security protocol to make P2P systems robust to denial-of-service attacks. Recommendations were integrated into the popular eMule system.• Developed modeling techniques to evaluate the impact of P2P traffic on ISP networks.• Designed and implemented security protocol to enable data confidentiality in a P2P video broadcasting system.Video Distribution Networks:• Analyzed terabytes of YouTube traffic traces from large ISPs.• Characterized the server selection strategies used by YouTube to deliver video to clients.

Panama, Panama, Pa

• Lecturer and laboratory instructor for undergraduate course "Digital Electronics".• Lecturer for undergraduate course "Power Electronics Laboratory".• Lead project on breaking DES with commodity hardware and parallel computation. Deployed computer cluster with commodity workstations and developed C code to break DES using parallel computation.

Clayton, Panama, Panama, Pa

• Team member for information systems security revision for the Panama Electoral Court. Work included the design and development of security policies in networking infrastructure.• Team member for the design and implementation of a security system for an automatic teller machine (ATM) TCP/IP based network in the Republic of Panama. Work included the implementation of TCSEC C2-based security controls.• Team member in the design and development of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute visitors registration system. Worked included the development of web interfaces and data migration from the previous system.• Installed and configured public key infrastructure (PKI) at the Office of the Law Prosecutor of the Administration of the Republic of Panama.• Instructor for annual information security workshop ran by Centauri from 2002 to 2004.

Ph.D., Computer Engineering

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Electronics And Communications Engineering