Graduate Research Conference 2004

Department of Computer Science
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400
10:30am - 5:30pm, Friday, May 7, 2004


10:30 am - 11:30 am     Room 2311

Keynote Address

Cyber Situational Awareness
Anita D'Amico, Applied Visions Inc.

Abstract: Every day major companies and government agencies sustain breaches to their information infrastructure. Some individual organization may record a million events per day from firewalls and intrusion detection systems. There are specialists devoted to sifting through that data to identify the most serious attacks and suspicious activities amidst the alerts. This presentation will review state-of-the-art technologies that enhance the situational awareness of these cyber defense analysts. Information about the cognitive components of situational awareness will be presented. Further I will review technologies that enhance situational awareness, including technologies for collecting and analyzing security and visually representing it. Finaly, examples will be presented on how to identify suspicious insider activity by combining data from network and physical security sensors, and on how to gain insight into the business impact of security incidents from network data.

Bio: Anita D'Amico, Ph.D. is the Director of Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions. She is both a human factors psychologist and an information security specialist. Her specialty area is cyber defense situational awareness, particularly improving cyber defense decision-making through visualization. Prior to joining Applied Visions, Dr. D'Amico was the founder and head of Information Warfare at Northrop Grumman, the fourthlargest defense contractor in the US. She led a major activity to develop a system for forecasting coordinated cyber attacks on military networks. She also led the Electronic Industries Association study of future Information Warfare tactics to be used in 2010 warfare. In addition to directing Secure Decisions' business, Dr. D'Amico also acts as principal investigator on a number of our research efforts with the Department of Defense, including a DARPA program to create visualizations of the mission and business impact of cyber security breaches. Dr. D'Amico holds a Ph.D. and MA in Psychology from Adelphi University, with a focus in Human Factors and Cognitive Psychology.



11:40 am - 1:10 pm

SYSTEM TRACK
Room 2311

System I
(11:40am-12:40pm)
Judges: Alexander Mohr
Session Chair: Alexey Smirnov

Optimal Implementation of Join Operation in Sensor Networks
Vishal Chowdhary, Samir Das, Himanshu Gupta

Energy-Efficient Gathering of Correlated Data in Sensor Networks (Best Paper Award)
Himanshu Gupta, Vishnu Navda, Samir Das, Vishal Chowdhary

Serial Data Aggregation Using Spacefilling Curves in Wireless Sensor Networks
Swapnil Patil, Samir Das

Break

THEORY/GRAPHICS TRACK
Room 2129

Graphics
(11:40am-12:20pm)
Judges: Hong Qin
Session Chair: Kyle Hegeman

HSIC: A View-dependent Rendering Framework for Isosurfaces
Nan Zhang

High Resolution Acquisition, Learning and Transfer of Dynamic 3D Facial Expressions(Best Paper Award)
Yang Wang, Dimitirs Samaras

Break

Natural Language Processing
(12:30pm-1:10pm)
Judges: Amanda Stent
Session Chair: Divya Padmanabhan

A First Step Towards a Toxin Knowledge Base for Discovering Bioengineered Threats(Best Paper Award)
Chang Zhao

Automatic Albuming of Consumer Photographs
Anthony J. WeaverJr.



1:10 pm - 2:00 pm      Break



2:00 pm - 5:10 pm

SYSTEM TRACK
Room 2311

File Systems
(2:00pm-3:20pm)
Judges: R. Sekar
Session Chair: Susanta Nanda

Versatility and Unix Semantics in a Fan-Out Unification File System
Puja Gupta, HariKesavan Krishnan, Charles P. Wright

Using Berkeley DB in the Linux Kernel
Aditya Kashyap, Jay Dave, Harikesavan Krishnan, Charles P. Wright, Mohammad Nayyer Zubair, Erez Zadok

Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System(Best Paper Award)
Yevgeniy Miretskiy, Abhijith Das, Charles P. Wright, and Erez Zadok

Tracefs: A File System to Trace Them All
Akshat Aranya, Charles P. Wright, and Erez Zadok

Break

System II
(3:30pm-4:10pm)
Judges: Samir Das
Session Chair: Vishwas Nagaraja

Trading with Credits: An Incentive Framework for P2P File Sharing Networks(Best Paper Award)
Kartik Tamilmani

A Virtual Overlay Network for DDoS Attack Prevention
Ritesh Maheshwari, Yogesh Chauhan

Break

Security
(4:20pm-5:00pm)
Judges: Erez Zadok
Session Chair: Sandeep Bhatkar

Vmware-based Virtual Network: A Host-Only Approach
Pratik Rana

An Adaptive Approach to Transparently Stop Buffer Overflow Attacks(Best Paper Award)
Zhenkai Liang, Daniel C. Du Varney, R. Sekar

Break

THEORY/GRAPHICS TRACK
Room 2129

Algorithm
(2:00pm-3:40pm)
Judges: Steve Skiena
Session Chair: Mohit Gupta

Short sequence distribution statistics for bacterial identification in homogeneous and mixed samples>(Best Paper Award)
Dimitris Papamichail, Steve Skiena

Protein Overlapping
Bei Wang, Steve Skiena

Copy Correction and Expression as Forces in the Conservation of Gene Sequences
Saumyadipta Pyne

Lydia: Knowledge Extraction from Curated Text Sources
Levon Llyod, Steve Skiena

Stochastic Template-based Surface Realizer Based on Large Corpora
Huayan Zhong, Amanda Stent

Break

Verification
(3:50pm-5:10pm)
Judges: Annie Liu
Session Chair: Sumit Jain

Automatic Verification and Synthesis of BPEL4WS Abstract Processes
Du Zyiang

Dynamic Analysis of Atomicity for Concurrent Programs
Liqiang

Incremental Evaluation of Tabled Logic Programs(Best Paper Award)
DiptiKalyan Saha, C. R. Ramakrishnan

Type inference for Parameterized Race-Free Java
Rahul Agarwal, Scott D. Stoller