Prof. Jun Li Wins Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Worm Detection Research
Assistant Professor Jun Li was recently awarded a prestigious five-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award to support his research project, A Behavior-Based Framework for Detecting Internet Worms.
Prof. Li and his research group will investigate causality and payload-independent similarity of worm connections, their destination visiting patterns as compared to normal connections, and their continuity as a worm spreads, with the consideration that certain legitimate connections may appear worm-like and that smart worms can attempt to hide themselves. This work represents a critical step towards preventing the severe economic and social disruption that Internet worms can cause.
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a highly competitive program that recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teacher-scholars who are poised to make fundamental contributions in both research and education.
Dr. Li is director of the Network Security Research Lab, and is currently supported by earlier grants from the National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation for research on Internet Routing Forensics and Worm Defense.
Dr. Li joined the Department of Computer and Information Science in the fall of 2002. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in 2002, his masters degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995, and his B.S. from Peking University in 1992. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Li enjoys hiking and skiing in the Cascades and crabbing at the Oregon coast. For more information, please visit Prof. Jun Li's website.