Stefan Savage

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of California, San Diego


Office: EBU3B 3106
Email: savage AT cs.ucsd.edu
Mail:

UCSD Dept of CSE

9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0404,

La Jolla, CA  92093-0404

Voice (858)-822-4895
FAX (858)-534-7029
Systems and Networking Group

Security Group


What's new? 

I started thinking about updating the what's new section.

Slides from an invited talk I gave at NDSS 2005 titled "Internet Outbreaks: Epidemiology and Defenses.

Kaia Savage was new back on 7/29/2004.

Cole Savage was the newest thing around back on 2/9/2002.

The Overnet host availability traces from our '02 IPTPS paper are available here.

The Denial-of-Service backscatter traces used in our '01 Usenix Security paper are available here.

Recent publications

Improving Software Diagnosability via Log Enhancement, Ding Yuan, Jing Zheng, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Stefan Savage, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 30(1), February 2012.

A Cloud-Backed File System for the Enterprise, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2012.

scc: Cluster Storage Provisioning Informed by Application Characteristics and SLAs, Harsha V. Madhyastha, John C. McCullough, George Porter, Rishi Kapoor, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Amin Vahdat, Proceedings of the 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2012.

An Analysis of Underground Forums, Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Berlin, CA, November 2011.

Judging a site by its content: learning the textual, structural, and visual features of malicious Web pages, Sushma Nagesh Bannur, Lawrence K. Saul, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISEC), Chicago, IL, October 2011.

Cloak and Dagger: Dynamics of Web Search Cloaking, David Wang, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Chicago, IL, October 2011.

On the Empirical Performance of Self-calibrating WiFi Location Systems, Daniel Turner, Stefan Savage, and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Bonn, Germany, October 2011.

Interview with Stefan Savage: On the Spam Payment Trail, Rik Farrow and Stefan Savage, USENIX ;login: 36(4):7–20, August 2011.

Heat of the Moment: Characterizing the Efficacy of Thermal Camera-Based Attacks, Keaton Mowery, Sarah Meiklejohn, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of Workshop On Offensive Technologies (WOOT), August 2011.

No Plan Survives Contact: Experience with Cybercrime Measurement, Chris Kanich, Neha Chachra, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, David Wang, Marti Motoyama, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), August 2011.

Show Me the Money: Characterizing Spam-advertised Revenue, Chris Kanich, Nicholas Weaver, Damon McCoy, Tristan Halvorson, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011.

Dirty Jobs: The Role of Freelance Labor in Web Service Abuse, Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011.

Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Danny Anderson, Brian Kantor, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011.

DefenestraTor: Throwing out Windows in Tor, Mashael AlSabah, Kevin Bauer, Ian Goldberg, Dirk Grunwald, Damon McCoy, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Waterloo, Canada, July 2011.

Privacy-preserving Network Forensics, Mikhail Afanasyev, Tadayoshi Kohno, Justin Ma, Nick Murphy, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 54(5):78–87, May 2011.

Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain, Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Márk Félegyházi, Chris Grier, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, He Liu, Damon McCoy, Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium and Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 2011, pages 431–446.

Learning to Detect Malicious URLs, Justin Ma, Lawrence K Saul, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M Voelker, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2(3):30:1–30:24, April 2011.

On the Effects of Registrar-level Intervention, He Liu, Kirill Levchenko, Márk Félegyházi, Christian Kreibich, Gregor Maier, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET), Boston, MA, March 2011, pages 1–8.

Got Traffic? An Evaluation of Click Traffic Providers, Qing Zhang, Thomas Ristenpart, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the WICOM/AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality), Hyderabad, India, March 2011, pages 19–26.

Improving Software Diagnosability via Log Enhancement, Ding Yuan, Jing Zheng, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Newport Beach, CA, March 2011.

Full publication list

Research  

I'm part of the Systems & Networking and Security research groups. My interests are all over the map, ranging from the economics of e-crime, to characterizing availability, to automotive systems to routing protocols, data center virtualization and back again. I have very broad interests (i.e. try me if you have a crazy idea).

Students  
Neha Chachra
Matthew Der
Tristan Halvorson
Chris Kanich
Wilson Lian
He Liu (Lonnie)
Andreas Pitsillidis
Daniel Turner
David Wang
Danny Anderson (MS)
Stephan Chenette (MS)
Erik Buchanan (MS)

Damon McCoy (postdoc 2009-2011) → George Mason University
Marti Motoyama (Ph.D., 2011)→ FitBit
Michael Vrable (Ph.D., 2011) → Google
Sushma Bannur (M.S., 2011) → Microsoft
Kourosh Derakshan (M.S., 2011) → Qualcomm
Justin Ma (Ph.D., 2010) → Berkeley Postdoc
Ge "Grace" Wang (M.S., 2010) → Qualcomm
Ryan Roemer (M.S., 2009) → Microsoft → IP Street
Kirill Levchenko (Ph.D., 2008) → UCSD Research Scientist
David Moore (2008) → Cisco
Varun Almaula (M.S., 2008) → Cisco
Yu-Chung Cheng (Ph.D., 2007) → Google
Alper Mizrak (Ph.D., 2007) → VmWare
John Bellardo (Ph.D., 2006) → Cal Poly SLO
Sumeet Singh (2006) → NetSift → Cisco
Chris Tuttle (M.S., 2006) → Google
Ishwar Ramani (M.S., 2005) → Juniper Networks → VUDU → Wal-Mart
Ranjita Bhagwan (Ph.D., 2004) → IBM Research → Microsoft Research
Doug Brown (M.S., 2003) → NYU Law School → Asst U.S. Attorney → Chapin Fitzgerald Sillivan and Bottini LLP
Teaching  
Winter 12: CSE 227 Computer Security
Fall 11: CSE 123 Computing Networking
Spring 11: IRGN 490 Cyber Security (w/Peter Cowhey), Gardner Room, IR/PS
Spring 10: CSE 227 Computer Security
Fall 09: CSE 123 Computing Networking
Fall 08: CSE 291 Internet Crime (grad seminar)
Spring 08: CSE 127 Computer Security (undergraduate)
Winter 08: CSE 227 Computer Security (graduate)
Fall 07: CSE 294 Systems and Networking Graduate Seminar
Spring 07: CSE 294 Systems and Networking Graduate Seminar
Spring 07: CSE 127 Computer Security
Winter 07: CSE 227 Computer Security (graduate)
Fall 06: CSE 294 Systems and Networking Graduate Seminar
Winter 06: CSE 127 Computer Security
Fall 05: CSE 123a Computer Networks
Fall 05: CSE 294 Systems and Networking Graduate Seminar
Spring 05: CSE 127 Computer Security
Spring 05: CSE 294 Systems and Networking Graduate Seminar
Winter 05: CSE 123a Computer Networks
Spring 04: CSE 123b Communications Software
Fall 03: CSE 221 Graduate Operating Systems
Spring 03: CSE 123b Communications Software
Winter 03: CSE 294 Systems and Networking Graduate Seminar
Winter 03: CSE 222 Computer Communications Networks
Spring 02: CSE 291 Topics in Wide Area Networking: Peer-to-Peer Systems
Spring 02: CSE 123b Communications Software
Fall 01: CSE 222 Computer Communications Networks
Winter 01:  CSE 291E  Selected Topics in Wide Area Networking.  
Professional Activities
Program Committee, 2012 USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI)
Program Committee, 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Conference
Program Committee, 2011 USENIX LEET Workshop
Program Committee, 2010 USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
Program Committee, 2010 USENIX LEET Workshop
Program Committee, 2009 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP)
Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Program Co-chair, 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Conference
Steering Committee,
2008-present USENIX LEET Workshop
Program Committe, 2008 USENIX WOWCS Workshop
Member, NSF GENI Science Council, 2007-2008
Program Co-chair, 2007 ACM HotNets Workshop
Program Committee, 2007 ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM)
Program Committee, 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP)
Program Committee, 2007 ACM SIGCOMM Conference
Program Committee, 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
NRC/CSTB Study: Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States (2004-2005)
Program Committee, 2005 USENIX Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
Program Committee, 2005 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP)
Program Committee, 2004 ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)
Program Co-chair, 2004 USENIX/ACM Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
Co-Organizer, 2003 DIMACS Workshop on Large-Scale Internet Attacks
Program Chair, 2003 ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM)
Program Committee, 2003 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP)
Program Committee, 2003 ACM SIGCOMM Conference
Program Committee, 2003 DISCEX Conference
Program Committee, 2003 ACM HotNets Workshop
Program Committee, 2002 ACM SIGCOMM Conference
Program Committee, 2001 Global Internet Symposium
Internet2 Network Research Liason Council, 2002-2004.
CSTB Research Horizons: Networking Research Workshop, 2001
DARPA ISAT Member, 2001-2004.
Misc

I got my undergrad degree in Applied History from CMU and my Ph.D. from the University of Washington (courtesy Brian Bershad and Tom Anderson). I was Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Asta Networks (now kaput), served on the Strategy Advisory Council of Rendition Networks (since acquired by OpsWare) and helped develop some of the technology used by Netsift (since acquired by Cisco). I do other consulting here and there.