Alvaro A. Cárdenas Mora

PhD-Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2007
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Research Interests

My research interests include several aspects of computer security. I am particularly interested in intrusion detection systems, analytical studies of robust watermarking, digital rights management, cryptography, and in the security of ad hoc and sensor networks. Most of my research and analytical skills are based on inference tools frequently used in signal processing and machine learning, such as statistical detection and estimation, game theory, graphical models, Bayesian networks and Information Theory.

Publications

  • Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Karl Seamon and John S. Baras. Towards a Framework for the Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems. To appear In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 21-24 2006. (Full Paper)
  • Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Nassir Benammar, George Papageorgiou and John S. Baras Cross-Layered security analysis of wireless ad hoc networks, in proceedings of the 24th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida December 2004 (abstract).
  • Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Svetlana Radosavac and John S. Baras Detection and Prevention of MAC layer misbehavior in Ad Hoc Networks In proceedings of the second ACM security of ad hoc and sensor networks workshop (SASN). Washington, DC, October 25 - 25, 2004.
  • Alvaro A. Cárdenas, John S. Baras and Vahid. Ramezani. Distributed Change Detection and Filtering for Worms, DDoS and other Network Attacks, In proceedings of the 2004 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, 30 June-2 July 2004. Best Presentation Award
  • John S. Baras, Alvaro. A. Cárdenas, Vahid. Ramezani. On-line detection of distributed attacks from space-time network flow patterns. In Proceedings of the 23rd Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 2002 (Best Paper Award - C4/ISR)


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    Contact Information

    Adress:The Institute for Systems Research,
    A.V. Williams Building, Mailroom 1103
    University of Maryland
    College Park, MD, 20742
    email: acardena@umd.edu
    Link: http://glue.umd.edu/~acardena