Take a step back, and ask yourself: What are the largest societal problems that relate to cybersecurity, today? Depending on your background, you may come with very different answers. Computer security researchers may come up with technical answers relating to formally verifiable code or homomorphic encryption or the structure of the internet. Tech-savvy policy makers […]
Category: Research
The Art of Rebutting
This is a post on how to rebut reviews. Specifically, CHI reviews. The ideas presented here probably apply to rebuttals more broadly, but much of what I’m going to speak about in this post is specific to CHI. Okay, so the long, long — so long — wait is over and you have your CHI […]
Lesson Learned From Proposing My Thesis: Presenting
You’ve got your committee and you’ve scheduled a date. You’ve got your document written. Now, you need to present and defend your thesis proposal. In many ways, the presentation is the most frightening part of the process. Your committee will ask tough questions now so that they don’t have to at your defense. Those tough […]
5 Ph.D. Survival Tips
I recently had to give a short presentation on “survival tips” as a Ph.D. student [1]. I thought I’d summarize that presentation in written form, too. Now, there’s a lot of material out there on how to succeed as an academic and as a professional. This post is going to be a rehashing of those […]
Academia or Industry? A Brief Guide to Jobs After the Ph.D.
As a Ph.D. student, one of the questions I hear most is: academia or industry? Every time I meet someone new and they realize that I’m close to graduating, that’s the question I hear. Every time I meet an old friend at a conference, that’s the question I hear. Even when I meet people in […]
NSA’s Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, Part 2
One of my papers was recently recognized as an honorable mention for the NSA’s Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award. As an honorable mention author, I was given the opportunity to present my work to an audience of NSA security researchers. In a previous post, I briefly described the award and my paper that got the […]
NSA’s Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition, pt. 1
I just returned from the NSA, where I gave an invited talk and received an honorable mention for their annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper competition. If I had to summarize: it was a humbling and educational experience. I’m happy to have participated, and am smarter for it. I thought I’d recap my experience for those […]
RWeka Hacks: Applying Supervised Filters to Test Sets
As a researcher, analyzing data is one of my core responsibilities. While there are many tookits, libraries and languages dedicated to statistical analysis, I generally find myself using R. R does mostly what I want. But, sometimes it doesn’t. For example, I have a pretty specific workflow for building performant classifiers (especially the kind that […]