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i am research professor emeritus of computer science and engineering at the university of michigan.  
i joined the university in 1986 as research scientist at the center for information technology integration and was director of the center from 1997 on.
 
i used to teach upper level undergraduate courses like
eecs 388, introduction to computer security;
eecs 484, database management systems; eecs 482, operating systems; and eecs 489, computer networks;
until i retired in 2022.
 
i also advised data science undergraduates and computer science master's students. i miss that the most. 
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more about me
my 
erdös number is 3, thanks to my very 
first journal publication.
my most recent paper is Money for Nothing, Chips for Free, 2025-08-19, Phrack #72.
my doctoral descendants
Aviel D. Rubin (Michigan, 1994)			AT&T Research JHU Harbor Labs
	Fabian Monrose (NYU, 1999)		JHU UNC
		Sophie Yu Qiu (JHU, 2007)	Cisco
		Lucas Ballard (JHU, 2008)	Google
		Seny Kamara (JHU, 2008)		Microsoft Research Aroki Systems Brown University
			Archita Agarwal (Brown)	Denison University MongoDB
			Ghous Amjad (Brown, 2021)	Google
			Zheguang Sam Zhao (Brown, 2021)
		Moheeb Rajab (JHU, 2008)	Google
		Charles Wright, III (JHU, 2008)	MIT Lincoln Labs
		Scott Eric Coull (JHU, 2009)	UNC RedJack
		Joshua Mason (JHU, 2009) 
	Adam Stubblefield (JHU, 2005)		JHU Google
	Joshua Mason (JHU, 2009)
	Sujata Doshi (JHU, 2009)		Google
	Samuel Kevin Small (JHU, 2009)		JHU
 	Ryan Gardner (JHU, 2009)		JHU/APL
	Matthew W. Pagano (JHU, 2013)		LGS Innovations
	J. Ayo Akinyele (JHU, 2013)		Zeutro
	Michael Rushanan (JHU, 2016)
	Paul Martin (JHU, 2016)			Harbor Labs
	Gabe Kaptchuk (JHU, 2020)
	Jeff Chavis (JHU, 2021)
	James Cervini (JHU, 2022)
	Karl Siil (JHU, 2022)
	Random Gwinn (JHU, 2022)
	Tushar Jois (JHU, 2023)
	Atheer Almogbil (JHU, —)
	Logan Kostick (JHU, —)
	David Inyangson (JHU, —)
Daniel A. Muntz (Michigan, 1994)		HP HP Labs Corosoft Tech NetApp EMC Violin Memory CitiBank
Lawrence B. Huston (Michigan, 1995)		Ipsilon NetBoost Intel Arbor Networks Cogitai Forcepoint
Tim Howes (Michigan, 1996)			Netscape AOL LoudCloud OpsWare HP Rockmelt Yahoo! ClearStory Data
Naomaru Itoi (Michigan, 2001)			ActivCard Arcot NextLabs Centrify FireLayersRipple Box
Terence P. Kelly (Michigan, 2002)		HP Labs AWS
Niels Provos (Michigan, 2003)			Google Stripe Lacework
Dean Hildebrand (Michigan, 2007)		IBM Google
Jiaying Zhang (Michigan, 2007)			Google
official business
i am a member of 
usenix, 
aaas, and 
sif.
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1994.  it was last updated recently.
