Fabian

Fabian Monrose

I am the Julian T. Hightower Chair Professor in Cybersecurity within the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I also hold a courtesy appointment in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. My research interests include all aspects of computer and network security.


Academic Positions

2022–now
Julian T. Hightower Chair, College of Engineering and School of Cyber Security and Privacy, Georgia Tech
2017–2022
Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
2012–2017
Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
2008–2012
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill
2007–2008
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
2002–2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Education

1996–1999
New York University, New York, NY
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Distributed Computing and Systems Lab
Advisor: Zvi M. Kedem and Aviel D. Rubin
1993–1996
New York University, New York, NY
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Distributed Computing and Systems Lab
Advisor: Zvi M. Kedem
1989–1993
Barry University, Miami, FL
B.Sc. Computer Science

Recent Publications

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Comparing Malware Evasion Theory with Practice: Results from Interviews with Expert Analysts
Miuyin Yong, Matthew Landen, Frank Li, Fabian Monrose and Mustaque Ahamad
USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024 (to appear).

CrashTalk: Automated Generation of Precise, Human Readable, Descriptions of Software Security Bugs
Kedrian James, Kevin Valakuzhy, Kevin Snow, Fabian Monrose
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2024 (to appear).

Towards Practical Fabrication Stage Attacks Using Interrupt-Resilient Hardware Trojans
Athanasios Moschos, Fabian Monrose and Angelos Keromytis
IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, 2024.

Improving Security Tasks Using Compiler Provenance Information Recovered At the Binary-Level
Yufei Du, Omar Alwari, Kevin Snow, Manos Antonakakis and Fabian Monrose
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023.

Stale TLS Certificates: Investigating Precarious Third-Party Access to Valid TLS Keys
Zane Ma, Aaron Faulkenberry, Thomas Papastergiou, Zakir Durumeric, Michael D. Bailey, Angelos D. Keromytis, Fabian Monrose and Manos Antonakakis
ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 2023.

Beyond the Gates: An Empirical Analysis of HTTP-managed password stealers and operators
Omar Alrawi, Athanasios Avgetidis, Kevin Valakuzhy, Charles Lever, Paul Burbage, Angelos Keromytis, Fabian Monrose, and Manos Antonakakis
USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.

More Carrot or Less Stick: Organically Improving Student Time Management With Practice Tasks and Gamified Assignments
Mac Malone and Fabian Monrose
ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2023.

Securely Autograding Cybersecurity Exercises Using Web Accessible Jupyter Notebooks
Mac Malone, Yicheng Wang and Fabian Monrose
ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 2023.

View from Above: Exploring the Malware Ecosystem from the Upper DNS Hierarchy
Aaron Faulkenberry, Athanasios Avgetidis, Zane Ma, Omar Alrawi, Charles Lever, Panagiotis Kintis, Fabian Monrose, Angelos Keromytis, and Manos Antonakakis
ACM Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2022.

Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Using Indexing and Sub-sequence Mining Techniques to Identify Related Crashes During Bug Triage
Kedrian James, Yufei Du, Sanjeev Das and Fabian Monrose
IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security, 2022.

Automatic Recovery of Fine-grained Compiler Provenance Information at the Binary Level
Yufei Du, Ryan Court, Kevin Z. Snow and Fabian Monrose
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2022.

Honors and Awards

2021
CSSA Graduate Teaching Award
UNC Computer Science Department
2015
Undergraduate Students Teaching Award
UNC Computer Science Department
2013
Best Student Paper Award
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
2012
Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
2011
ATT Best Applied Security Paper Award
NYU-Poly CSAW
2011
Best Paper Award
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
2006
CAREER Award
National Science Foundation
1999
Best Overall and Best Student Paper Awards
USENIX Security Symposium

Recent Courses

2021
Introduction to Computer Security, UNC Chapel Hill
2021
Computer and Network Forensics, UNC Chapel Hill
2020
Technical Communications and Writing in CS, UNC Chapel Hill
2017
Computer Forensics, UNC Chapel Hill
2014
Network Security, UNC Chapel Hill

Recent Advising (GT and UNC)

2023–now
Boo Fullwood, PhD student
2022–now
Vinny Adjibi, PhD student (co-advised)
2020–now
Kevin Valakuzhy, PhD student (co-advised)
2020–now
Yufei Du, PhD student
2018–now
Kedrian James, PhD student (at UNC)
2018–2023
Mac Malone, PhD student
2019–2021
John Lim, Master's student
2020–2022
Kevin Lane, Master's student
2010–2014
Srinivas Krishnan, Master's Student
2015–2017
Roman Rogowski, Master's student
2012–2016
Teryl Taylor, Ph.D. student
2016–2012
Yi Xu, Ph.D student
2010–2015
Andrew M. White, PhD. student
2009–2014
Kevin Z. Snow, PhD. student

Recent Doctoral Committees

2019–now
Omar Alwari, GaTech, GA
2019–2021
Salman Ahmed, Virginia Tech, VA
2018–2021
Tapti Palit, Stony Brook University, NY
2019–2021
Calvin Deutschbein, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2016–2018
Adrian Tang, Columbia University, NY
2014–2017
Chaz Lever, GaTech, GA
2016–2018
Louis Soleyn, University of the West Indies, Barbados
2016–2017
Tracy John, University of the West Indies, Barbados