Erez Zadok

Rank/Position Title:

Associate Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~ezk

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

January 2001

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:

Teaching:

• Cyber Security Partnerships: Cooperation, Collaboration, and Teamwork for Excellence in Information Assurance Education, June 2004
• Cyber Security Workshop, Stony Brook University, August 2004
• Professional (in past 12-18 months):
• Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
• Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
• Filesystems and Storage Technologies (FAST)
• Usenix Annual Technical conference
• Security in Storage Workshop (SISW)
• IEEE/NASA Mass Storage Technologies conference (MSST)

Other related computing experience:

• Program committee Chair, Usenix/FREENIX 2003
• Bulletin Editor, IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments (TCOS)
• Faculty Sponsor, the Stony Brook Linux Users Group (SBLUG)

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:

• Committee for Undergraduate Curriculum Review
• UG committee (esp. for open-houses)
• Other committees: faculty recruiting, operations, quals, staff recruiting, Web, etc.

Principal publications of the last five years.

Books: E. Zadok. Linux NFS and Automounter Administration. Sybex, Inc., May 2001.

Articles:

• N. Joukov, A. Rai, and E. Zadok. Increasing Distributed Storage Survivability with a Stackable RAID-like File System. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Cluster Security, in conjunction with the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005). May, 2005. Won best paper award.
• Y. Miretskiy, A. Das, C. P. Wright, and E. Zadok. Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System. In Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2004), San Diego, CA, August 2004.
• K. Muniswamy-Reddy, C. P. Wright, A. Himmer, and E. Zadok. A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System. In Proceedings of the Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004), pages 115-128, San Francisco, CA, March/April 2004.
• A. Aranya, C. P. Wright, and E. Zadok. Tracefs: A File System to Trace Them All. In Proceedings of the Third USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2004), pages 129-143, San Francisco, CA, March/April 2004.
• E. Zadok, J. Osborn, A. Shater, C. P. Wright, K. Muniswamy-Reddy, and J. Nieh. Reducing Storage Management Costs via Informed User-Based Policies. In Proceedings of the 12th NASA Goddard, 21st IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2004), pages 101-105, April 2004.
• C. P. Wright, J. Dave, and E. Zadok. Cryptographic File Systems Performance: What You Don t Know Can Hurt You. In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Security In Storage Workshop (SISW 2003), October 2003.
• C. P. Wright, M. Martino, and E. Zadok. NCryptfs: A Secure and Convenient Cryptographic File System. In Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference, pages 197-210, June 2003.
• A. Purohit, C. Wright, J. Spadavecchia, and E. Zadok. Develop in User-Land, Run in Kernel Mode. In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX), May 2003.
• R. Grosu, E. Zadok, S. A. Smolka, R. Cleaveland, and Y. A. Liu. High-Confidence Operating Systems. In Proceedings of the Tenth SIGOPS European Workshop: Can we really depend on an OS? , September 2002.
• J. Spadavecchia and E. Zadok. Enhancing NFS Cross-Administrative Domain Access. In Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference, FREENIX Track, pages 181-194, June 2002.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

Grants:

• NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS), $2,459,061, 2004-2008, Co-PI.
• NSF CAP, $199,883, 2003-2005, Co-PI, Collaborative Research: Capacity Expansion in Information Assurance.
• NSF CAREER (NGS), $400,000, 2002-2007, Sole PI, CAREER: An In-Kernel Runtime Execution Environment for User-Level Programs.
• NSF Trusted Computing (TC), $400,000, 2003-2006, Sole PI, A Layered Approach to Securing Network File Systems.
• HP/Intel, $131,529, 2002-2003, Sole PI, Linux Application Performance and File System Security.
• SPIR, $94,581, 2003, Sole PI, Secure Shared Storage.
• Dolphin Technology, Inc., $90,563, 2002-2003, Co-PI, Assessing the Technological Basis for Enterprise Protection.
• SPIR, $55,676, 2002, Sole PI, A Secure and Scalable Network Appliance.
• SPIR, $22,679, 2003, Sole PI, Advanced Storage Security.
• HP/Intel, $22,490, 2001-2002, Sole PI, Linux Network Scalability and File System Reliability.

Software: NCryptfs (commercially licensed through Stony Brook), Versionfs, Tracefs, Unionfs, Antivirusfs, Cosy, FiST, Am-utils

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

ACM, IEEE, USENIX

Honors and awards:

• Graduate Teaching Award, Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department, 2004.
• NSF CAREER Award, 2002
• Promising Inventor Award, The State University of New York, Research Foundation, 2003
• N. Joukov, A. Rai, and E. Zadok. Increasing Distributed Storage Survivability with a Stackable RAID-like File System. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Cluster Security, in conjunction with the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005). May, 2005.
• Best Student Paper. M. G. Schultz, E. Eskin, E. Zadok, M. Bhattacharyya, and S. J. Stolfo. MEF: Malicious Email Filter A UNIX Mail Filter that Detects Malicious Windows Executables. In Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference, FreeNIX Track, pages 245-252, JUNE 2001.

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Other assigned duties performed during the academic year, with average hours per week. Indicate which, if any, carry extra compensation. If you are course coordinator for courses taught by other than full-time faculty, please indicate here which courses.

Course Coordinator: CSE-130, CSE-230 (also CSE-376 and CSE-506)

Academic advising:

• Undergraduate: 4
• Graduate: 11
• Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004/2005 academic year.

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities:

Conduct research on operating systems, file systems and storage, and security. Teach courses and train students on research subjects as well as advanced programming techniques