Announcement of New Graduate Research Assistantship Position in the Dependable Computing Systems Lab (DCSL)

Topic: How to automatically respond to multi-stage malware in distributed corporate networks?

 

Saurabh Bagchi

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department of Computer Science (Courtesy Appointment)

Purdue University

Contact: 765-494-3362; sbagchi@purdue.edu

 

 

Posted: December 27, 2016

DCSL is looking for a new graduate research assistant to work on a sponsored project on distributed intrusion response, to start from Spring 2017. The project is open to a PhD student in ECE or CS, in the 1st or 2nd year of his/her study. It may also be opened up to a talented 1st year MS (with thesis) student in ECE or CS. The interview process will start now and we will make the RA appointment once a qualified candidate is found.

Application procedure

Send an email note to Prof. Saurabh Bagchi with your CV (in pdf) and answers to the following specific questions in the body of the email. Qualified candidates will be invited for interviews.

1.     When did you start your Masters/PhD?

2.     What are your grades in courses at Purdue?

3.     What is your undergrad school and what was your standing in your department (e.g., 3rd among 50 students in Computer Science, top 5% in 60 students in ECE)?

4.     What are your grades in programming courses in your undergraduate?

5.     Is there a Purdue person (professor, supervisor, etc.) who can speak about your qualifications?

Problem Statement

The project, funded by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, will develop algorithms to reason about attacks that target large-scale distributed systems to determine how the attack is spreading. This will be used to trigger response actions in an SDN-enabled environment, which can take the form of reconfiguring the controller rules, while ensuring that certain correctness properties (like network reachability) are maintained.

The hired RA student will work closely with personnel from the sponsor’s organization, a Research Scientist in our group, as well as personnel from CERIAS on an as-needed basis.

 Qualifications

Required: Good Linux systems skills, basic background in probabilistic inferencing.

Desirable: Practical experience with a software defined network controller, some intrusion detection system.