Mark's webpage

I am a graduate student in the CS department at the University of Minnesota.
I started in the Fall of 2003 and I am enrolled in the PhD program.
I received my BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics at Rutgers University in May 2001. Afterwards, I worked at Telcordia Technologies, Inc. as a Software Engineer until joining the University here.

Coursework:

Spring 2006:

Computational Complexity

Fall 2005:

Basic Theory of Probability and Statistics (Math 5651)

Spring 2005:

Advanced Cryptography (CSCI 8980)
Artificial Intelligence I (CSCI 5511)

Fall 2004:

Data Communications and Computer Networks (CSCI 5211)
Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures (CSCI 5421)
Mathematical Logic (Math 5165)

Spring 2004:

Modern Cryptography (CSCI 5471)

Project Presentation

Principles of Database Systems (CSCI 5707)

Project Presentation

Data Mining (CSCI 5980)

Project Presentation

Computer Science Colloquium (CSCI 8970)

Fall 2003

Operating Systems (CSCI 5103)
Cryptology (Math 5248)
Security and Privacy in Computing (CSCI 8980)

I gave one of the lectures in this class. Here are the slides.
Class project was on Buffer Overflows

University Work Experience:

Spring 2004 - present: RA for MINDS project
Fall 2003: TA for CSCI 2021

I gave a portion of one of the lectures. Here are my slides.

Publications

Mark Shaneck, Yongdae Kim, Vipin Kumar, "Privacy Preserving Nearest Neighbor Search", In the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining, December 2006 (Full Paper - also UMN CS TR 06-014)
Mark Shaneck, Varun Chandola, Haiyang Liu, Changho Choi, Gyorgy Simon, Eric Eilertson, Yongdae Kim, Zhi-li Zhang, Jaideep Srivastava, and Vipin Kumar, A Multi-Step Framework for Detecting Attack Scenarios, University of Minnesota Technical Report 06-004, February 2006
Mark Shaneck, Karthikeyan Mahadevan, Vishal Kher, and Yongdae Kim, Remote Software-based Attestation for Wireless Sensors, In the Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, July 2005 (Slides)

Reading Lists:

Misc Talks and Presentations:

Informal Security Seminar

Intrusion Detection Alert Correlation (2/11/2005)

CSCI 8271

Buffer Overflows and Prevention (11/2/2004)

MINDS:

Worms Taxonomy and Detection Survey (3/15/2004)

Informal Security Seminar:

Worms Taxonomy and Detection Survey (2/6/2004)

Networking Seminar:

Buffer Overflows (10/15/2003)

Links

UMN Calendar
Searching

Computer Stuff

Latex References

Writing

Guide to Grammar and Writing

On April 17, 2004, I became a father. On February 2007, I became a father again. :) Pictures are constantly being posted on my wife's website. Here are some from that site:

Here is a picture of the security lab (as of Fall 2003)