My research is focused on the following areas:

• Large Systems Security & Survivability
  
• Intrusion Detection Systems
  
• Privacy and Anonymity
• Security for MANETs and Mobile Devices

Teaching:

    Spring 2013: ISA 673, Operating Systems' Security

Selected Recent Publications:

• Behavioral Analysis of Android Applications Using Automated Instrumentation
  Mohammad Karami, Mohamed Elsabagh, Parnian Najafiborazjani, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability
  (SERE 2013), 18-20 June 2013, Washington DC, USA.

• Forced-Path Execution for Android Applications on x86 Platforms
  Ryan Johnson, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability
  (SERE 2013), 18-20 June 2013, Washington DC, USA.
  

• Towards a Cyber Conflict Taxonomy
  Scott Applegate and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2013)
  NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence conference, 4-7 June 2013 in Tallinn, Estonia.
  

• Spectre: A Dependable Introspection Framework via System Management Mode
  Fengwei Zhang, Kevin Leach, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 43nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
  Dependable Systems and Networks (IEEE DSN 2013), Budapest, 24 - 27 June 2013.

• Exposing Software Security and Availability Risks For Commercial Mobile Devices (CMDs)
  Ryan Johnson, Zhaohui Wang, Angelos Stavrou, and Jeff Voas.
  In the Proceedings of the IEEE RAMS 2013, Orlando, Florida, 28 - 31 January 2013.
  

• Malicious PDF Detection Using Metadata and Structural Features
  Charles Smutz and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Orlando, Florida, USA, December 3–7, 2012.
  

• Malware Characterization using Behavioral Components
  Chaitanya Yavvari, Arnur Tokhtabayev, Huzefa Rangwala, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference “Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security”, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 17-20, 2012.

• Exposing Security Risks for Commercial Mobile Devices(Invited)
  Zhaohui Wang, Ryan Johnson, Rahul Murmuria, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of 6th International Conference “Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security”, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 17-20, 2012.

• Netgator: Malware Detection Using Program Interactive Challenges.
  Brian Schulte, Haris Andrianakis, Kun Sun, Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2012), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 26-27th, 2012.
  
  
• Mobile Application and Device Power Usage Measurements
  Rahul Murmuria, Jeffrey Medsger, Jeffrey M. Voas, Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
  

• Improving network response times using social information
  Sharath Hiremagalore, Chen Liang, Angelos Stavrou and Huzefa Rangwala.
  In the Proceedings of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer Wien, p.1-12 (2012).
  

• Building Security into Off-the-Shelf Smartphones
  Angelos Stavrou, Jeffrey Voas, Tom Karygiannis, Steve Quirolgico.
  Computer, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 82-84, Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MC.2012.44

• A Dependability Analysis of Hardware-Assisted Polling Integrity Checking Systems
  Jiang Wang, Kun Sun, and Angelos Stavrou.
  In the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on
  Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2012), Boston, Massachusetts, June 2012.

• Implementing & Optimizing an Encryption File System on Android
  Zhaohui Wang, Rahul Murmuria, and Angelos Stavrou.
  To appear in the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
  (IEEE MDM 2012), July 23 - 26, 2012, Bangalore, India. (Acceptance Rate: 22/88).
  

Recent Professional Activities:

    Editorial Positions, Panels, and Boards

    IET Journal on Information Security, May 2010 - Present.
    Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, Editorial Board Member, March 2010 - Present.


    Program Organization:

    Program co-Chair, Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) Symposium, RAID 2013
    Student Travel Grant Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
    (CCS), 2009, 2010
    Program co-Chair, Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET): 2009, 2010
    Program co-Chair, 1st Workshop on Virtual Machine Security (VMSec): 2008, 2009


    Program Committee Member (Selected Recent):

    Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID): 2011, 2012
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P): 2010, 2011, 2012
    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS): 2009, 2010
    Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
    Int’l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
    Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 2010, 2011, 2012
    5th ACM Int'l Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies:2009
    USENIX Security Symposium: 2007, 2008, 2009
    25th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC): 2010
    International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks
    (SecureComm), 2009, 2010, 2011
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS): 2009, 2010
    European Workshop on System Security (EUROSEC): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Thesis:

    "An Overlay Architecture for End-to-End Service Availability" (awarded with distinction)[Slides]