Evan Cooke

Co-Founder & CTO Twilio, Inc.

Pier 38
San Francisco, CA 94107
email: phy twilio
People

I am Co-Founder and CTO of Twilio. Twilio provides a web-service API for businesses to build scalable, reliable communications applications that make and receive phone calls.

Previously, I was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow working with Professor Farnam Jahanian in the Software Systems Laboratory (SSL) at the University of Michigan. A copy of my dissertation is available here.

My research is focused on network security and distributed systems. I have worked on the Internet Motion Sensor project and the PREDICT projects. I worked with Jon Oberheide, Sushant Sinha, Michael Bailey at UM and many other outstanding networking folks at Merit Network and Arbor Networks.

Outside of school I enjoy tinkering with networking and embedded systems projects and getting involved with the local business community. I like monkeys. I have worked or interned here(defunct), here, here, here, and here and worked on this, this, and this.

Publications:
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Challenges and New Directions for Inferring the Impact of Software Patches [pdf], [slides]
Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian
Proc. of the 12th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XII), May 2009

CloudAV: N-Version Antivirus in the Network Cloud [pdf], [slides]
Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian
Proc. of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '08), July 2008.
[Press Release] [MIT Tech Review] [ZDNet] [Computerworld] [ITBusiness] [Tech Herald] [Science Daily] [TG Daily] [icrontic] [Search Security]

Virtualized In-Cloud Security Services for Mobile Devices [pdf], [slides]
Jon Oberheide, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Evan Cooke, Jason Flinn, and Farnam Jahanian
Proc. Workshop on Virtualization in Mobile Computing (MobiVirt'08), June 2008

Rethinking Antivirus: Executable Analysis in the Network Cloud [pdf], [slides]
Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke, and Farnam Jahanian
Proc. of 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec'07), August 2007

Exposing Internet Address Use to Enhance Network Security [pdf]
Evan Cooke
University of Michigan Dissertation, May 2007

Internet-Scale Malware Mitigation: Combining Intelligence of the Control and Data Plane [pdf]
Ying Zhang, Evan Cooke, and Z. Morley Mao
Proc. of ACM CCS Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM'06), November 2006.

Resource-Aware Multi-Format Network Security Data Storage [pdf]
Evan Cooke, Andrew Myrick, David Rusek, Farnam Jahanian
Proc. of the SIGCOMM Workshop on Large Scale Attack Defense (LSAD'06), September 2006.

Hotspots: The Root Causes of Non-Uniformity in Self-Propagating Malware [pdf], [slides]
Evan Cooke, Z. Morley Mao, and Farnam Jahanian
Proc. of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'06), June 2006.

Reclaiming Network-wide Visibility Using Ubiquitous End System Monitors [pdf]
Evan Cooke, Richard Mortier, Austin Donnelly, Paul Barham and Rebecca Isaacs
Proc. of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'06), May 2006.

The Dark Oracle: Perspective-Aware Unused and Unreachable Address Discovery [pdf], [slides]
Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, Farnam Jahanian, and Richard Mortier
Proc. of the 3rd ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'06), May 2006.

Data Reduction for the Scalable Automated Analysis of Distributed Darknet Traffic [pdf]
Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Niels Provos, Karl Rosaen, and David Watson
Proc. of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'05), October 2005

The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets [pdf], [slides]
Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, and Danny McPherson
Proc. of Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI'05), July 2005.

The Blaster Worm: Then and Now [pdf]
Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, David Watson, Farnam Jahanian, and Jose Nazario
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Volume: 3, Issue: 4, pages: 26-31, July-August 2005

The Internet Motion Sensor: A distributed blackhole monitoring system [pdf], [slides]
Michael Bailey, Evan Cooke, Farnam Jahanian, Jose Nazario, and David Watson
Proc. of Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'05), February 2005.

Toward Understanding Distributed Blackhole Placement [pdf]
Evan Cooke, Michael Bailey, David Watson, Farnam Jahanian, and Danny McPherson
Proc. of ACM CCS Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM'04), October 2004.

Gaseous discharge plasmas produced by high-energy electron-irradiated insulators for spacecraft
Frederickson, A.R.; Benson, C.E.; Cooke, E.M.;
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Volume: 28, Issue: 6, Pages:2037-2047, December 2000.
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