Vishal C. Kher

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, December 2007.

    Adviser: Prof. Yongdae Kim

• M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2002.

    Advisers: Prof. Richard A. Kemmerer and Prof. Giovanni Vigna  


• B.E. in Computer Engineering, P.I.C.T, Affiliated to University of Pune, India, August 2000.

Research

• V. Kher and Y. Kim. Building Trust in Storage Outsourcing: Secure Accounting of Utility Storage. In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2007.


• V. Kher, E. Seppanen, C. Leach, Y. Kim. SGFS: Secure, Efficient and Policy-based Global File Sharing. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2006), College Park, MD, May 2006. An extended version of the paper is available as a DTC Research Report.


• D. Du, D. He, C. Hong, J. Jeong, V. Kher, Y. Kim, Y. Lu, A. Raghuveer, S. Sharafkandi Experiences Building an Object-Based Storage System based on the OSD T-10 Standard. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2006), May 2006.


• V. Kher and Y. Kim. Securing Distributed Storage: Challenges, Techniques, and Systems . In Proceedings of the first ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 05), 2005. (invited paper)


• M. Shaneck, K. Mahadevan, V. Kher, and Y. Kim. Remote Software-based Attestation for Wireless Sensors. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), July 2005.


• P. Wang, Y. Kim, V. Kher, and T. Kwon. Strengthening Password-based Authentication Protocols Against Online Dictionary Attacks. In Proceedings of the Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2005.


• V. Kher and Y. Kim. Decentralized Authentication Mechanisms for Object-Based Storage Devices. In Proceedings of the Second International Security in Storage Workshop (SISW), October 2003.


• G. Vigna, W. Robertson, V. Kher, and R.A. Kemmerer. A Stateful Intrusion Detection System for World-Wide Web Servers. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2003.