Two CIS Professors Receive Fellowships for Sabbaticals in Spain
Professors Reza Rejaie and Jun Li are spending back-to-back sabbaticals in Spain. They have been hosted by the Telematic Engineering Department (http://www.it.uc3m.es/vi) of the University Carlos III of Madrid (http://www.uc3m.es), a top research university in Spain, and the Institute IMDEA Networks (http://www.networks.imdea.org), a computer networking research institute in Madrid.
Dr. Li, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon and director of the University's Network Security Research Laboratory (http://netsec.cs.uoregon.edu), is a 2010 Cátedra de Excelencia at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M). He also joined the IMDEA Institute in February 2011, in the role of Visiting Researcher. Dr. Li brings extensive experience in network security and networking architecture and protocols to both institutions.
In studying network security, Dr. Li's main interests include direct countermeasures against threats such as worms and phishing, as well as security technologies that can be built into the Internet at the architectural and protocol levels, such as traffic hijacking detection, source address validity enforcement, and Internet routing forensics. Recently he is also studying an "Internet seismograph", or "I-seismograph", that analyzes Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to deliver real-time measurements of the Internet impact of disruptive events such as large-scale power outages, undersea cable cuts, or security incidents. This work is published in IEEE INFOCOM 2011 conference
Dr. Rejaie was awarded a "European Union Marie Curie Fellowship" in 2009 that supported his one-year sabbatical (September 2009 - August 2010) as a Visiting Researcher at Institute IMDEA Networks. During this period, Dr. Rejaie was involved in multiple research projects at IMDEA Networks and University Carlos III of Madrid. In particular Dr. Rejaie had significant contributions to a study titled "Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit-Driven?"
This study resulted in an article (with the same title) that was published at ACM CoNEXT 2010, a top-tier conference in Computer Networks. This article was selected as one of the top three papers in the conference and recommended for fast-track review to the Transactions on Networking.
The results of this study were extensively reported by more than 170 news outlets (e.g. ACM TechNews, Spanish TV and radio stations) during the first few months of 2011. For more information: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/CoNEXT_papers/11-Cuevas.pdf.