RESEARCHERS
Brian Levine
Marc Liberatore
Brian Lynn
Emmanuel Cecchet
Ryan Hurley
Swagatika Prusty
Hamed Soroush
Robert Walls
PARTNERS
Massachusetts Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
Crimes Against Children Research Center
PA Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force
BRIAN LYNN
ABOUT ME
I am a member of the Commonwealth Center for Forensics and Society, working to prevent child exploitation on the Internet. I am currently focused on file-sharing forensics.
I am also responsible for the Diverse Outdoor Mobile Environment (DOME). Much of that work is in conjunction with NSF's Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI). Our current effort is associated with deploying WiMAX in our DOME mobile test bed. We have installed a WiMAX base station in the LGRT and placed virtualized clients on our mobile nodes (buses).
I previously implemented the RAPID routing protocol for DTN.
Prior to UMass I worked for Hewlett-Packard in the Bay Area. My final position with HP was as a research manager at HP Labs in the now defunct Linux Technologies Project. Prior to leaving HP I was involved in network processor partitioning and asynchronous I/O, helped found the Gelato Federation, and served on HP's Open Source Review Board.
CONTACT INFORMATION
blynn at cs.umass.edu
Department of Computer Science
140 Governors Dr
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9264
LATEST
NEWS
Brian Levine was invited to give testimony to the US Sentencing Commission hearing on "Federal Child Pornography Offenses" in Washington, DC on February 15, 2012.
Robert J. Walls will be presented with an Oustanding Synthesis Project award from the Department of Computer Science at UMass for his work on DEC0DE (Usenix Security 2011). A synthesis project is completed by all doctoral students at UMass, in order to stretch their experience beyond their main dissertation topic. Robert's work combined techniques from forensics and machine learning.
Together with Janis Wolak of the CCRC, we a received a new research award from Dept of Justice/OJJDP on discovering contact offenders (Marc Liberatore, PI). We also received a renewal of our award from Dept of Justice/NIJ on digital evidence (Brian Levine, PI).
Forensic Investigation of the OneSwarm Anonymous Filesharing System appeared in ACM CCS 2011! By Swagatika Prusty, Brian Levine, Marc Liberatore.
Our position paper on the differences between security and forensics appeared at USENIX Hot Topics in Security 2011: Effective Digital Forensics Research is Investigator-Centric by Robert J. Walls, Brian Levine, Marc Liberatore, and Clay Shields
Our latest work on phone forensics appeared at USENIX Security 2011: Forensic Triage for Mobile Phones with DEC0DE by Robert J. Walls, Erik Learned-Miller, and Brian Levine.
Robert J. Walls is the winner of an extremely competitive 2011 Yahoo Key Scientific Challenge award in the Security & Privacy category.
Appeared at ACM CoNEXT 2010: Strengthening Forensic Investigations of Child Pornography on P2P Networks.
Our work was featured in the Dept.
of Justice's National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and
Interdiction: A Report to Congress.
See the latest news stories of arrests that involve evidence gathered by tools developed at UMass.