Alexander Moshchuk

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98105-2350
Office: 486 Allen Center

About

I'm a graduate student at the University of Washington in the Computer Science and Engineering department. My research interests are in Internet security, virtual machines, and computer systems in general. My advisers are Steve Gribble and Hank Levy. Recently, we've been studying new ways to find and defend against malicious code on the web, focusing on spyware and botnets in particular.

I was born and grew up in Moscow, Russia. Before coming to Seattle, I spent four wonderful undergraduate years at Cornell University in sunny Ithaca, NY, double-majoring in computer science and electrical engineering. I've also done summer internships at Microsoft, VMware, and GM.

In my free time, I enjoy lots of things. In the winter months you can find me skiing and playing ice hockey, and when it's warmer and sunnier I switch to tennis and soccer. I've been playing piano since I was 9 and still practice regularly. I also like traveling, reading Russian books, and listening to various music, especially classical.

Publications

    Flashproxy: Transparently Enabling Rich Web Content via Remote Execution
    Alexander Moshchuk, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy.
    To appear in the Sixth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2008), Breckenridge, Colorado, June 2008.

    Organizing and Sharing Distributed Personal Web-Service Data [pdf]
    Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Cheung, Alexander Moshchuk, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy.
    To appear in the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 2008.

    Metadata Management Engine for Data Integration with Reverse-Engineering Support [demo]
    Michael Gubanov, Phil Bernstein, and Alexander Moshchuk.
    To appear in 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

    SpyProxy: Execution-based Detection of Malicious Web Content [pdf] [bibtex]
    Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Damien Deville, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy.
    Proceedings of the 16th Annual USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, August 2007.

    A Crawler-based Study of Spyware on the Web [pdf] [bibtex]
    Alexander Moshchuk, Tanya Bragin, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy.
    Proceedings of the 13th Annual Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS 2006), San Diego, CA, February 2006.

Teaching

At UW, I've TA'ed CSE 451 (Operating Systems), CSE 371 (Architecture), and CSE 467 (Advanced Digital Design). Recently, I've interned at Intel Russia in the city of Nizhny Novgorod and taught an OS course (in Russian!) as part of Intel Studio, a new educational program focusing on a strong systems curriculum.