Second Year Masters Student

I am a part-time MS CS student at UCSD. I also currently work full-time as head researcher of Websense Security Labs

My research interests center around issues in network security, distributed systems and data mining.
Currently, I am extremely privileged to be working with Prof. Stefan Savage. and the Systems and Networking Group .

Papers and Presentations

[ BruCon 2009 - Advanced Script Fragmentation ]
[ AusCert 2009 - P0wning The Programmable Web ]
[ RSA 2009 - Script Fragmentation ]
[ PacSec 2008 - Script Fragmentation ]
[ ToorCon 2008 - The Ulimate Deobfuscator ]
[ CanSecWest 2008 - Web Wreck-utation ]
[ AusCert 2008 - V-Next Honeyclients : Evolving Revolvers - Discover them before they discover you ]
[ PacSec 2007 - Automated JavaScript Deobfuscation ]
[ Blackhat Vegas 2007 - Detecting Web Browser Heap Corruption Attacks ]

Currently enrolled in:

SUMMER BREAK

Previous courses:

[ ENG201 - Venture Mechanics ] [ Course homepage ] with Alexander Zak
Overall rating:

[ CSE222A - Computer Communication Networks ] [ SP08 Course homepage ] with Amin Vahdat
Review: Prof. Vahdat was an excellent lecturer and I highly recommend taking one of his courses. His slides are relevant, up to date and he's completely game for customizing the class in either a direction of a straight lecture or a forum for discussion.
Overall rating:

[ CSE221 - Operating Systems ] [ WI08 Course homepage ] with Joesph Pasquale
Review: The course was taught using the socratic method . Prof. Pasquale was an excellent lecturer and I highly recommend taking a course taught by him.
Overall rating:

[ CSE240a - Principles of Computer Architecture ] [ FA07 Course homepage ] with Steven Swanson
Review: N/A
Overall rating:
Next Years Course offerings
I'll be taking:
UKNOWN Fall 2009...there doens't seem to be anything related to my field
CSE 222B Internet Algorithmics w/ Varghese Winter 2010
CSE 202 Algorihms and Analysis w/ Graham Spring 2010
Computing FAQ