Atul Prakash

Research Interests:

Teaching:

• Fall 2007: EECS 588: Computer and Network Security
• Winter 2008: Working on the design of courses for a new concentration, Informatics , in LS&A.(the concentration is currently pending approval).
• Fall 2008: EECS 182: Building Information Environments (new course)

Current and Recent Projects:

•   WhereAbouts Project : Design of location-aware pervasive systems
  • Also see TalkingPoint Project on using RFID-based orientation systems for assisting people with blindness:
•   Virtual partitioning within operating systems to enhance security. See our work on SVFS and virtual RPC to protect file systems.
•   CPOL: High-throughput privacy/security policy evaluation infrastructure. [CPOL CCS 2005 paper] [download software from http://cpol.sourceforge.net]
• Web Tap Project on detecting covert web traffic [ ACM CCS 04 paper]  
  
• DistView Collaboratory toolkit
  
• Antigone: A Framework for Security Policy Management in group multicast systems
  
• DACIA: A mobile component framework for building adaptive distributed applications
  
  My two page bio sketch (not necessarily current)