Appointments
Project Leader University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute	1/2013 - present
Research Faculty University of Southern California	8/2010 - present
Computer Scientist University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute	8/2007 - 12/2012
Assistant Professor Computer and Information Sciences Department, University of Delaware	9/2003 - 8/2007
Research Assistant Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles	10/2000 - 8/2003
Lecturer Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity, University of California Los Angeles	4/2000
Teaching Assistant Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles	10/1998 - 8/2000
Research Assistant School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia	9/1997 - 9/1998
Education
University of California Los Angeles Ph.D. in Computer Science (specializing in Network Security) Thesis: D-WARD: Source-End DDoS Defense Advisor: Prof. Peter Reiher GPA: 3.84/4.00	9/2003
University of California Los Angeles M.S. in Computer Science GPA: 3.82/4.00	12/2000
School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia B.Sc. in Computer Science GPA: 9.33/10.00	7/1998
Publications
Books John Wroclawski, Terry Benzel, Jim Blythe, Ted Faber, Alefiya Hussain, Jelena Mirkovic and Stephen Schwab, Chapter on "DETERLab and DETER project" in The GENI Book, Rick McGeer, Mark Berman, Chip Elliott and Robert Ricci, Springer, 2016. Chapter on "Collaborative DDoS Defenses" in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition Henk C.A. van Tilborg, Sushil Jajodia, Editors-in-Chief, Springer, 2011. Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms Jelena Mirkovic, Sven Dietrich, David Dittrich and Peter Reiher, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-147573-8, 2005. Journals Perspectives on the SolarWinds Incident Sean Peisert, Bruce Schneier, Hamed Okhravi, Fabio Massacci, Terry Benzel, Carl Landwehr, Mohammad Mannan, Jelena Mirkovic, Atul Prakash and James Bret Michael IEEE Security & Privacy, volume 19, number 2, pp 7-13, 2021. (editorial) Using Episodic Memory for User Authentication Simon S. Woo, Ron Artstein, Elsi Kaiser, Xiao Le and Jelena Mirkovic, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, vol 22, issue 2, April 2019. Handling Anti-Virtual Machine Techniques in Malicious Software H. Shi and J. Mirkovic, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, vol 21, issue 1, 2018. Optimal application allocation on multiple public clouds S. Woo and J. Mirkovic, Elsevier Computer Networks, February 2014. Teaching Cybersecurity with DeterLab J. Mirkovic and T. Benzel. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, January/February 2012, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 73-76. (invited paper). Comparative Evaluation of Spoofing Defenses J. Mirkovic and E. Kissel, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, March-April 2011, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp 218-232. Tools for worm experimentation on the DETER testbed S.Wei, A. Hussain, J. Mirkovic and C. Ko, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), 2010, Vol. 5, No. 1/2, pp. 151-171. Accurately Measuring Denial of Service in Simulation and Testbed Experiments J. Mirkovic, A. Hussain, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher and R. Thomas, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 81-95, April-June 2009. Testing a Collaborative DDoS Defense in a Red Team/Blue Team Exercise J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher, C. Papadopoulos, A. Hussain, M. Shepard, M. Berg and R. Jung, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 8, pp 1098-1112, August 2008. Learning the valid incoming direction of IP packets J. Li, J. Mirkovic, T. Ehrenkranz, M. Wang, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, Computer Networks, Vol. 52, No. 2, February 2008, pp 399-417. D-WARD: A Source-End Defense Against Flooding Denial-of-Service Attacks J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 2005, pp. 216-232. Conferences and workshops Samba: Identifying Inappropriate Videos for Young Children on YouTube Le Binh, Rajat Tandon, Chingis Oinar, Jeffrey Liu, Uma Durairaj, Jiani Guo, Spencer Zahabizadeh, Sanjana Ilango, Jeremy Tang, Fred Morstatter, Simon Woo, and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022 (acceptance rate 274/1175 = 23.32%) Defending Root DNS Servers Against DDoS Using Layered Defenses A S M Rizvi, Jelena Mirkovic, John Heidemann, Wesley Hardaker and Robert Story Proceedings of IEEE COMSNETS, 2023. Best paper award Practical Intent-driven Routing Configuration Synthesis Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Ying Zhang, Mohab Gawish, Yogesh Mundada, Zhaodong Wang, Sangki Yun, Eric Lippert, Walid Taha, Minlan Yu and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of NSDI, 2023. (acceptance rate 46/288=16%) Xatu: Boosting Existing DDoS Detection Systems Using Auxiliary Signals Zhiying Xu, Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Alexander Ruth, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu Proceedings of CoNext, 2022. (acceptance rate 28/151=19%) AMON-SENSS: Scalable and Accurate Detection of Volumetric DDoS Attacks at ISPs Rajat Tandon, Pithayuth Charnsethikul, Michalis Kallitsis and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of Globecom, 2022. Toward Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Cybersecurity Artifacts David Balenson, Terry Benzel, Eric Eide, David Emmerich, David Johnson, Jelena Mirkovic and Laura Tinnel Proceedings of Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2022. Harm-DoS: Hash Algorithm Replacement for Mitigating Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Binary Executables Nicolaas Weideman, Haoda Wang, Tyler Kann, Spencer Zahabizadeh, Wei-Cheng Wu, Rajat Tandon, Jelena Mirkovic and Christophe Hauser Proceedings of International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses (RAID), 2022. (acceptance rate 53/216=25%) I know what you did on Venmo: Discovering privacy leaks in mobile social payments Rajat Tandon, Pithayuth Charnsethikul, Ishank Arora, Dhiraj Murthy and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022. (acceptance rate 53/216=24%) Polymorphic Malware Behavior Through Network Trace Analysis Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2022. User Experiences on Network Testbeds Jelena Mirkovic and Portia Pusey Proceedings of 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), 2021. An Experimental Approach for Estimating Cyber Risk: a Proposal Building upon Cyber Ranges and Capture the Flags Giorgio Di Tizio, Fabio Massacci, Luca Allodi, Stanislav Dashevsky and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), 2020. Malware Behavior Through Network Trace Analysis Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of International Networking Conference (INC), 2020. Quantifying Cloud Misbehavior Rajat Tandon, Jelena Mirkovic, Pithayuth Charnsethikul Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2020. Quantifying the Impact of Blocklisting in the Age of Address Reuse Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Anushah Hossain, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu, Sadia Afroz Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2020. (acceptance rate 53/216=24.5%) BLAG: Improving the Accuracy of Blacklists Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic and Minlan Yu, Proceedings of Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2020. (acceptance rate 88/506=17.4%) Using Terminal Histories to Monitor Student Progress on Hands-on Exercises Jelena Mirkovic, Aashray Aggarwal, David Weinman, Paul Lepe, Jens Mache and Richard Weiss, Proceedings of Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Symposium (SIGCSE), 2020. (acceptance rate 31.4%) Measuring Student Learning On Network Testbeds Paul Lepe, Aashray Aggarwal, Jelena Mirkovic, Jens Mache, Richard Weiss and David Weinmann, Proceedings of the Midscale Education and Research Infrastructure and Tools (MERIT) Workshop, 2019. Defending Web Servers Against Flash Crowd Attacks Rajat Tandon, Abhinav Palia, Jaydeep Ramani, Brandon Paulsen, Genevieve Bartlett and Jelena Mirkovic, Proceedings of the Midscale Education and Research Infrastructure and Tools (MERIT) Workshop, 2019. SENSS Against Volumetric DDoS Attacks Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Jelena Mirkovic, Minlan Yu and Ying Zhang Proceedings of 2018 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2018. (acceptance rate 60/299=20.1%) DEW: Distributed Experiment Workflows Jelena Mirkovic, Genevieve Bartlett and James Blythe Proceedings of the CSET 2018. Malware Analysis through High-Level Behavior Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of the CSET 2018. GuidedPass: Helping Users to Create Strong and Memorable Passwords Simon S. Woo and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2018. (acceptance rate 33/145=23%) Leveraging Semantic Transformation to Investigate Password Habits and Their Causes Ameya Hanamsagar, Simon S. Woo, Chris Kanich and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018. (acceptance rate 667/2657=25.1%) RESECT: Self-Learning Traffic Filters for IP Spoofing Defense Jelena Mirkovic, Erik Kline and Peter Reiher Proceedings of 2017 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2017. (acceptance rate 48/244=19.7%) Commoner Privacy And A Study On Network Traces Xiyue Deng and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of 2017 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2017. (acceptance rate 48/244=19.7%) Understanding Malware’s Network Behaviors using Fantasm Xiyue Deng, Hao Shi and Jelena Mirkovic Proceedings of LASER Workshop, 2017. Do You See Me Now? Sparsity in Passive Observations of Address Liveness Jelena Mirkovic,Genevieve Bartlett, John Heidemann, Hao Shi and Xiyue Deng Proceedings of Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 2017. Hiding Debuggers from Malware with Apate Hao Shi, Jelena Mirkovic, Proceedings of ACM SAC, 2017. (acceptance rate 8/51=16%) Enabling SDN Experimentation in Network Testbeds Sivaramakrishnan Ramanathan, Pravein Kannan, Chan Mun Choon, Jelena Mirkovic, Keith Sklower, Proceedings of ACM SDNNFV Security Workshop, 2017. Improving Recall and Security of Passphrases through Use of Mnemonics Simon Woo, Jelena Mirkovic, Proceedings of Passwords Conference, 2016. Life-Experience Passwords (LEPs) Simon Woo, Elsi Keiser, Ron Artstein, Jelena Mirkovic, Proceedings of ACSAC, 2016 (acceptance rate 48/210=22.8%) Good Automatic Authentication Question Generation Simon Woo, Zuyao Li, Jelena Mirkovic, Proceedings of International Natural Language Generation conference, 2016 Engaging Novices in Cybersecurity Competitions: A Vision and Lessons Learned at ACM Tapia 2015 Jelena Mirkovic, Aimee Tabor, Simon Woo, Portia Pusey, Proceedings of USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE), 2015. Expressing Different Traffic Models Using The LegoTG Framework G. Bartlett and J. Mirkovic. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT), 2015 (Best Paper) Critter: Content-Rich Traffic Trace Repository V. Sharma, G. Bartlett and J. Mirkovic. In Proceedings of Workshop on Information Sharing and Collaborative Security (WISCS), 2014. Cardinal Pill Testing of System Virtual Machines H. Shi, A. Alwabel, and J. Mirkovic. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2014. (acceptance rate ~67/350=19%) Class Capture-the-Flag Exercises J. Mirkovic, P. A. H. Peterson. In Proceedings of the USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games and Gamification in Security Education 2014. Safe and Automated Live Malware Experimentation on Public Testbeds A. Alwabel, H. Shi, G. Bartlett, and J. Mirkovic. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, 2014. Life-Experience Passwords (LEPs) S. Woo, J. Mirkovic, E. Kaiser and R. Artstein. In Proceedings of the Who are you? Adventures in Authentication Workshop 2014. Reducing Allocation Errors in Network Testbeds J. Mirkovic, H. Shi and A. Hussain. In Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2012. (acceptance rate ~45/183=24.6%) Beyond Disk Imaging for Preserving User State in Network Testbeds J. Mirkovic, A. Alwabel and T. Faber. In Proceedings of the Workshop on CyberSecurity Experimentation and Test (CSET) 2012. A Semantic Framework for Data Analysis in Networked Systems A. Viswanathan, A. Hussain, J. Wroclawski, S. Schwab and J. Mirkovic. In Proceedings of the Networked System Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2011. (acceptance rate ~27/157=17.2%) Teaching Security with Network Testbeds J. Mirkovic, M. Ryan, J. Hickey, K. Sklower, P. Reiher, P. A. H. Peterson, B. H. Kang, M. C. Chuah, D. Massey, G. Ragusa. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Education, 2011. The DETER Project: Advancing the Science of Cyber Security Experimentation and Test J. Mirkovic, T. Benzel. S. Schwab, J. Wroclawski, T. Faber and B. Braden. In Proceedings of the IEEE Homeland Security Technologies Conference (IEEE HST), 2010. RAD: Reflector Attack Defense Using Message Authentication Codes E. Kline, M. Beaumont-Gay, J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher. In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2009. (acceptance rate ~44/240=18.3%) Modeling Human Behavior for Defense against Flash Crowd Attacks G. Oikonomou and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2009. Tools for Worm Experimentation on the DETER testbed S. Wei, C. Ko, J. Mirkovic and A. Hussain, Proceedings of the IEEE Create-Net International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom), 2009. How to Test DDoS Defenses J. Mirkovic, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher and R. Thomas, Proceedings of the Cybersecurity Applications & Technology Conference For Homeland Security (CATCH) 2009. Current Developments in DETER Cybersecurity Testbed Technology T. Benzel, B. Braden, T. Faber, J. Mirkovic, S. Schwab, K. Sollins and J. Wroclawski, Proceedings of the Cybersecurity Applications & Technology Conference For Homeland Security (CATCH) 2009. Building Accountability into the Future Internet J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE ICNP Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), 2008. Correcting Congestion-Based Error in Network Telescope's Observations of Worm Dynamics S. Wei and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the IEEE Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2008. (6-page paper, overall acceptance rate 32/185=17%) Privacy-Safe Network Trace Sharing via Secure Queries J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the ACM CCS Workshop on Network Data Anonymization (NDA), 2008. Managing the Health of Security Experiments J. Mirkovic, K. Sollins and J. Wroclawski, Proceedings of the USENIX Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop (CSET), 2008. Combining Speak-up with DefCOM for Improved DDoS Defense M. Mehta, K. Thapar, G. Oikonomou and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2008. Fine-Grained Capabilities for Flooding DDoS Defense Using Client Reputations M. Natu and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Large-Scale Attack and Defense Workshop (LSAD), 2007. Automating DDoS Experimentation J. Mirkovic, B. Wilson, A. Hussain, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher, R. Thomas and S. Schwab, Proceedings of the USENIX DETER workshop, 2007 Towards User-Centric Metrics for Denial-Of-Service Measurement, J. Mirkovic, A. Hussain, B. Wilson, S. Fahmy, P. Reiher, R. Thomas, W. Yao and S. Schwab, Proceedings of the ACM FCRC Workshop on Experimental Computer Science (ExpCS), 2007. DDoS Benchmarks and Experimenter's Workbench for the DETER Testbed J. Mirkovic, S. Wei, A. Hussain, B. Wilson, R. Thomas, S. Schwab, S. Fahmy, R. Chertov and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE Create-Net International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (Tridentcom), 2007. Benchmarks for DDoS Defense Evaluation J. Mirkovic, E.Arikan, S. Wei, S. Fahmy, R. Thomas and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE AFCEA MILCOM 2006. Measuring Denial-of-Service J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher, S. Fahmy, R. Thomas, A. Hussain, S. Schwab and C. Ko, Proceedings of the ACM CCS Quality of Protection Workshop (QoP), 2006. A Framework for Collaborative DDoS Defense G. Oikonomou, J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher and M. Robinson, Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2006. (acceptance rate 32/135=27%) Building Reputations for Internet Clients S. Wei and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the ESORICS International Workshop on Security and Trust Management (STM), 2006. A Realistic Simulation of Internet-Scale Events S. Wei and J. Mirkovic, Proceedings of the the Create-Net International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS), 2006. Profiling and Clustering Internet Hosts S. Wei, J. Mirkovic and E. Kissel, Proceedings of the WORLDCOMP International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN), June 2006. Distributed Worm Simulation with a Realistic Internet Model S. Wei, J. Mirkovic and M. Swany, Proceedings of the ACM IEEE SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), 2005. Alliance Formation for DDoS Defense J. Mirkovic, M. Robinson, P. Reiher and G. Kuenning, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), 2003. (acceptance rate 13/43=30%) Challenges of Source-End DDoS Defense J. Mirkovic, G. Prier and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2003. (acceptance rate 40/155=26%) Attacking DDoS at the Source J. Mirkovic, G. Prier and P. Reiher, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2002. (acceptance rate 32/217=15%) Implementing Address Assurance in the Intel IXP Router M. Burns, G. Prier, J. Mirkovic, P. Reiher, Proceedings of the Network Processors Conference (NPC), 2002. SAVE: Source Address Validity Enforcement Protocol J. Li, J. Mirkovic, M. Wang, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM, 2002. (acceptance rate 192/938=20.5%) A Self-Organizing Approach to Data Forwarding In Large-Scale Sensor Networks J. Mirkovic, G. P. Venkataramani, S. Lu and L. Zhang, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2001. Other refereed publications Software-Defined Security Service M. Yu, Y. Zhang, J. Mirkovic and A. Alwabel Open Networking Summit, 2014. When Is Service Really Denied? A User-Centric DoS Metric J. Mirkovic, A. Hussain, B. Wilson, S. Fahmy, W. Yao, P. Reiher, S. Schwab and R. Thomas, Poster paper at the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2007. A Taxonomy of DDoS Attacks and Defense Mechanisms J. Mirkovic and P. Reiher, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Vol. 34, Num. 2, April 2004, pp. 39-54. Genetic Search Based on Multiple Mutations V. Milutinovic, D. Cvetkovic and J. Mirkovic, IEEE Computer, pp. 118-119, November 2000. Tech reports / thesis / other Designing for Fallible Humans J. Mirkovic and S. S. Woo, Proceedings of Humans and CyberSecurity Workshop (HACS), 2019. Invited paper Improving Testbed Experiment Design Through Shifting User Interface Emphasis, G. Bartlett, J. Mirkovic and J. Blythe, USC/ISI Technical Report # ISI-TR-737, 2019. LegoTG: Composable Traffic Generation with a Custom Blueprint, J. Mirkovic and G. Bartlett, USC/ISI Technical Report # ISI-TR-699, 2015. DADL: Distributed Application Description Language, J. Mirkovic, T. Faber. P. Hsieh, G. Malayandisamu, R. Malavia, USC/ISI Technical Report # ISI-TR-664, 2010. Comparative Evaluation of Spoofing Defenses E. Kissel and J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI technical report number ISI-TR-655, January 2009. A Two-Constraint Approach to Risky Cybersecurity Experiment Management J. Wroclawski, J. Mirkovic, T. Faber and S. Schwab, Invited paper at the 2008 Sarnoff Symposium. A Practical IP Spoofing Defense Through Route-Based Filtering J. Mirkovic, N. Jevtic and P. Reiher, University of Delaware CIS Department Technical Report CIS-TR-2006-332. Distributed Defense Against DDOS Attacks J. Mirkovic, M. Robinson, P. Reiher and G. Oikonomou, University of Delaware CIS Department Technical Report CIS-TR-2005-02. A Taxonomy of DDoS Attacks and DDoS Defense Mechanisms J. Mirkovic, J. Martin and P. Reiher, UCLA CSD Technical Report CSD-TR-020018. Source Router Approach to DDoS Defense J. Mirkovic, G. Prier and P. Reiher, UCLA CSD Technical Report CSD-TR-010042. iSAVE: Incrementally Deployable Source Address Validation J. Mirkovic, Z. Xu, J. Li, M. Schnaider, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, UCLA CSD Technical Report CSD-TR-020030. D-WARD: Source-End Defense Against Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks J. Mirkovic, Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, August 2003. SAVE: Source Address Validity Enforcement Protocol J. Li, J. Mirkovic, M. Wang, P. Reiher and L. Zhang, UCLA Technical Report CSD-TR-010004.
Grants
Active Modernizing DeterLab education support and growing and diversifying education user base AFRL DURIP award number FA9550-22-1-0459 Lead PI: Jelena Mirkovic, USC/ISI Community Labeling and Sharing of Security and Networking Test datasets (CLASSNET) NSF CCRI award number 8115780 Lead PI: Jelena Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: John Heidemann, USC/ISI Co-PI: Wes Hardaker, USC/ISI Co-PI: Michalis Kallitsis, Merit Network Inc. ENS: Modernizing and Streamlining DeterLab Testbed Experimentation NSF CCRI award number 2016643 Lead PI: Jelena Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: Terry Benzel, USC/ISI REU Site: SURF-I: Safe, Usable, Resilient and Fair Internet NSF REU award number 2051101 Lead PI: Jelena Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: Luis Garcia, USC/ISI Co-PI: Fred Morstatter, USC/ISI Co-PI: Rafael Ferreira da Silva, USC/ISI SEARCCH: Sharing Expertise and Artifacts for Reuse through a Cybersecurity Community Hub NSF OCI award number 1925564 Lead PI: Terry Benzel, USC/ISI Co-PI: Jelena Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: Eric Eide, University of Utah Co-PI: David Balenson, SRI Co-PI: Laura Tinnel, SRI Co-PI: Tim Yardley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DETER Research Education and Operations Mission Sustainment NSF OCI award number 1842703 Lead PI: T. Benzel, USC/ISI Co-PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: E.Kline, USC/ISI Distributed Workflows for Cyberexperimentation NSF OAC Software Institutes award number 1835608 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: G. Bartlett, USC/ISI Co-PI: J. Blythe, USC/ISI Hardening Systems Against Low-Rate DDoS Attacks NSF SaTC award number 1815495 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: C. Hauser, USC/ISI DDoS Defense In Depth for DNS NSF OCI CICI award number 1739034 Lead PI: J. Heidemann, USC/ISI Co-PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: W. Hardaker, USC/ISI REU Site: Human Communication in a Connected World NSF CNS award number 1659886 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: C. Hauser, USC/ISI Modeling Student Activity and Learning on Cybersecurity Testbeds NSF Cybercorps SFS award number 1723717 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Co-PI: Richard Weiss, Evergreen College Co-PI: Jens Mache, Lewis and Clarke College SENSS: Security Service for the Internet DHS DDoSD award number D15PC00184 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Co-PI: M. Yu, Yale University Completed Revitalizing Cyber Security Education and Research through Competitions NSF SaTC award number 1224035 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Co-PI: Ronald Pike, CSU Pomona FRADE: Model Human Behavior for Flash cRowd Attack DEfense NSF SaTC award number 1319215 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI [email protected]: Content-Rich Traffic Trace Repository from Real-Time, Anonymous, User Contributions NSF SaTC award number 1224035 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Traffic modeling and generation with custom fidelity for cyber security experimentation NSF SDCI award number 1127388 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Privacy-safe sharing of network data via secure queries NSF CNS Trusted Computing award number 0914780 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Investigating Network Testbed Usage NSF EAGER award number 1049758 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic USC/ISI Hands-on exercises on DETER testbed for security education NSF DUE Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) award number 0920719 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Co-PI: D. Massey, Colorado State University Co-PI: Mooi-Choo Chuah, Lehigh University Co-PI: B. Hoon Kang, UNC Charlotte Beyond Testbeds: Catalyzing Transformative Research and Education through Cybersecurity Collaboratories (BTCT) NSF CNS Cyber Trust award number 0831491 Lead PI: J. Wroclawski, USC/ISI Co-PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Enabling Routers to Detect and Filter Spoofed Traffic NSF CNS Cyber Trust award number 0716452 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Transparent, Secure and Reliable Virtual Infrastructure Management USC-InfoSys Center for Research and Education in Advanced Software Technologies (CAST) Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: T. Faber, USC/ISI iSim - Simulator of Internet-scale Events NSF CNS Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) - planning grant award number: 0708774 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Benchmarks for DDoS Defense Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency award number FA8750-05-2-0197 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, USC/ISI Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Co-PI: S. Fahmy, Purdue University Co-PI: R. Thomas, SPARTA, Inc. DefCOM - Distributed Defense Against DDoS Attacks NSF CNS Cyber Trust award number 0430228 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, University of Delaware Co-PI: P. Reiher, UCLA Securing DefCOM operation from inside and outside threats NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement award number 0430228 Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, University of Delaware Machine Learning for Worm Defense University of Delaware Research Foundation Lead PI: J. Mirkovic, University of Delaware
Program Committee Service
PC chair for PAM 2015, NPSec (Workshop on Secure Network Protocols) 2009, CSET (Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test) 2008 and 2009. Local chair for PAM 2014. Track chair for ACM CCS 2021. TPC member USENIX Security 2023, IMC 2022, USENIX Security 2022, ACM CCS 2022, USENIX Security 2021, RAID 2021, IMC 2021, International Workshop on Traffic Measurement for Cybersecurity 2021, NDSS 2020, Euro S&P 2020, SOSR 2020, Usenix Security 2020, CoNext 2019, IMC 2019, DIMVA 2019, PAM 2019, Usenix Security 2019, RAID 2019, NDSS 2018, CSET 2017, ASE 2017, LASER 2017, CSET 2016, ASE 2016, Oakland S&P 2015, IMC 2014, PAM 2014, CANS 2013, ACSAC 2012, IMC 2012, ICDCS 2011, Securecomm 2009, Global Internet 2008 and 2009, Chinacom 2009, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2008, Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2008, INFOCOM 2006, IWQoS (International Workshop on Quality of Service) 2006, 2007 and 2008, ICCCN (IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks) 2006, 2007 and 2008, WSPWN (International Workshop on Research Challenges in Mobile and Wireless Networks Security and Privacy) 2006, NPSec (Workshop on Secure Network Protocols) 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013, WORIA (International Workshop on Rapid Internet Attacks) 2005. Invited session chair for "Network Security" session at the Sarnoff Symposium 2007 and 2008. Publicity chair for SIGCOMM 2007, NPSec (Workshop on Secure Network Protocols) 2007.
Reviewer Service
NSF Cyber Trust, NeTS, CAREER and REU program panelist ACM CCR (Computer Communications Review), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM Operating Systems Review, ACM Computing Surveys IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, IEEE Computer Magazine, IEEE Communications Letters International Journal of Information Security Elsevier International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing SpringerLink International Journal of Information Security The Handbook of Information Security, The Handbook of Computer Networks ETRI Journal