CIS department welcomes Assistant Professor Kevin Butler
Dr. Kevin Butler's research focuses on security issues as they relate to storage systems, large-scale systems architectures, and networks. Recently, he has been exploring how advances in storage technologies can be used to improve the state of systems security. He is also interested in security in interdomain routing, propagation of malicious code through the Internet, applied cryptosystems, and using secure hardware to enforce systems security.
Kevin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2010. He is a past recipient of a Symantec Graduate Fellowship and a Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award. After receiving his B.Sc. from Queen's University in 1999 and his M.S. from Columbia University in 2003, both in Electrical Engineering, Kevin worked in the Secure Systems Group at AT&T Labs-Research. He was a member of the EVEREST study of voting machines for the State of Ohio, which led to changes in advance of the 2008 presidential elections on how electronic voting in the state was done. Kevin has several years of industry experience, having worked at UUNET (now Verizon Business) as a network operator and at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) as a research scientist. He has also done research internships at Flarion Technologies, AT&T Labs, Seagate Research, and Symantec Research Labs. He has over 20 refereed research publications and has been member of technical program committees for many international workshops and conferences on computer, software, and communication security.
This fall, Kevin will teach a new seminar on Security in Systems, Storage, and Clouds (CIS 607). In the winter, he will be teaching Computer and Network Security (CIS 433/533), and in the spring, he will teach Operating Systems (CIS 415).
More information about Dr. Butler can be found at his website.