Return to Faculty DirectoryDumitras, Tudor
Research Interests
- System security and dependability
- Big Data techniques for analyzing the behavior of real-world systems
- Scalable infrastructures for data storage and analysis
Background
Tudor Dumitras is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on Big Data approaches to problems in system security and dependability. In his previous role at Symantec Research Labs he built the Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE) - a platform for experimenting with Big Data techniques. He received an Honorable Mention in the NSA competition for the Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper of 2012. He also received the 2011 A. G. Jordan Award from the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, the 2009 John Vlissides Award from ACM SIGPLAN, and the Best Paper Award at ASP-DAC'03. Tudor holds a Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University
- M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University
- Diplôme d’Ingénieur in Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
- B.S. in Compute Science from "Politechnica" University, Bucharest, Romania
Selected Publications
- E.Papalexakis, T. Dumitraș,D.H. Chau,A. Prakash and C. Faloutsos. ‘Spatio-temporal Mining of Software Adoption & Penetration.’ In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’13), Niagara Falls, CA, Aug 2013
- L.Bilge and T. Dumitraş.‘Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-Day Attacks in the Real World.’ In USENIX ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’12), Raleigh, NC, Oct 2012.(19% acceptance rate)
- T.Dumitraș and P.Narasimhan.‘Why Do Upgrades Fail And What Can We Do About It? Toward Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems.'In ACM/IFIP/USENIX Conference on Middleware (Middleware’09), Urbana-Champaign,IL,Nov–Dec 2009.
Honors and Awards
- Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper, Honorable Mention, NSA 2013
- A.G. Jordan Award, Carnegie Mellon ECE Department (for outstanding Ph.D. thesis and service) 2011
- John Vlissides Award, ACM SIGPLAN (for significant promise in applied software research) 2009
- 1stPlace, ACM Student Research Competition, OOPSLA’09 2009
- Research Grant, Amazon Web Services (for reducing upgrade failures via upgrades-as-a-service) 2009
- Graduate Student Service Award, Carnegie Mellon University 2006
- Best Paper Award, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2003
- Excellence scholarship, French government's EIFFEL program 1999–2001
Professional Memberships
- ACM
- IEEE
- USENIX