Virgil Gligor

Virgil Gligor's research interests have ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography.

He was awarded the prestigious National Information Systems Security Award in 2005.

Education

B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. , University of California at Berkeley.

Professional Background

Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Gligor was at the University of Maryland from 1976, and was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Over the past 29 years, his research interests have ranged from access control mechanisms, penetration analysis, and denial-of-service protection to cryptographic protocols and applied cryptography.

Research Areas

Next Generation Secure and Available Networks

Secure Home Computing

Security of Cyber-Physical Systems

Trustworthy Computing Platforms and Devices

Cross Cutting Thrusts

Software Security

Usable Privacy and Security

recent publications

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Improving Usability and Robustness of Online Recommendation SystemsKim, H.-J., Gligor, V. D., & Perrig, A. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Columbus, OH: Ohio State University. (August, 2011).

Network Fault Localization with Small TCBZhang, X., Zhou, Z., Hasker, G., Perrig, A., & Gligor, V. D. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP). (2011).

Dependable Connection Setup for Network CapabilitiesLee, S.-B., Gligor, V. D., & Perrig, A. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. (2010).

FLoc: Dependable Link Acess for Legitimate Traffic in Flooding AttacksLee, S. B., & Gligor, V. D. Conference Proceedings. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Xplore. (2010).

TrustVisor: Efficient TCB Reduction and AttestationMcCune, J., Li, Y., Qu, N., Zhou, Z., Datta, A., Gligor, V. D., & Perrig, A. In David Evans and Giovanni Vigna (Eds.) Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press. (2010).