Research Information

There's a couple publications that I've been part of, but I don't have them up here. Email me if you would like. I'm interested in many different security topics, some of which are listed below. I have a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and I'm currently working on a PhD.

Conference Publications

Chris Grier, Shuo Tang, and Samuel T. King, "Secure web browsing with the OP web browser", To appear in the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008. PDF

Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou, "Designing and implementing malicious hardware", to appear in the First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET '08), April 2008. PDF

C. M. Davis, J. E. Tate, H. Okhravi, C. Grier, T. J. Overbye, and D. Nicol, "SCADA Cyber Security Testbed Development" in Proceedings of North American Power Symposium (NAPS), September 2006. PDF

Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, Chris Grier, "RINSE: The Real- Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises", in Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), June 2005. PDF

Journal Publication

Michael Liljenstam, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Yougu Yuan, Guanhua Yan, and Chris Grier. "RINSE: The Real-Time Immersive Network Simulation Environment for Network Security Exercises (Extended Version)." Simulation Vol. 82(1), pp. 43-59, Jan. 2006. (PADS conference PDF)

General interests

• Attacks and hacking
• Designing secure systems
• Networks, protocols and algorithms for networks
• Cryptography
• Very large scale Internet attacks (worms, botnets, etc...)
• Rootkits, malware, bot design and implementations
• Breaking just about anything, and analyzing prevention mechanisms