About Me

I'm a first year graduate student in the department. My research interests include security, systems, and ubiquitous computing. I have worked on a variety of projects, including:

• Developing a passive, UHF RFID tag that transmits its identify only when the user makes an intentional "read" motion.
• Analyzing how information can leak from deniable file systems, and how you might minimize these leaks on existing OSes.
• Developing embedded systems and labs based on the iMote2 for use in the Computer Engineering curriculum.
• System administration and development for the RFID Ecosystem project.
• Firmware development and support for the UW Activity Recognition and related projects.

Publications

• Czeskis, A., Koscher, K., J. Smith, Kohno, T. "RFIDs and Secret Handshakes: Defending Against Ghost-and-Leech Attacks and Unauthorized Reads Through Context-Aware Communications." To appear in the Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2008.


• Czeskis, A., St. Hilaire, D., Koscher, K., Gribble, S., Kohno, T., Schneier, B. "Defeating Deniable File Systems: A TrueCrypt Case Study." To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security, July 2008.


• Choudhury, T., et. al. "The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded System for Capturing and Recognizing Human Activities." IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 32-41, April-June, 2008.


• Borriello, G., Hartung, C., Hemingway, B. Koscher, K., Mayton, B. "Multi-player Soccer and Wireless Embedded Systems." Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2008.


• Andrew, A., Anokwa, Y., Koscher, K., Lester, J., Boriello, G. "Context to Make Your More Aware." Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, June 2007.

Contact Information

• Office: CSE 490 (Mailing information)
• Phone: 206 543 4149
• Fax: 206 543 2969
• Email: at cs
• AIM: Super5AT
• Jabber: at livejournal.com