Cory Cornelius

Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA

Education

Dartmouth College, Ph.D. Hanover, NH (2008 - Present)

Second-year graduate student in Computer Science interested in security, privacy, networks and, in particular, the intersection of these fields.

Dartmouth College, A.B. Hanover, NH (2003 - 2007)

A.B. in Computer Science & Native American Studies.

Citations: Design & Implementation of a Rock Climbing Robot, Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence

Experience

Research Engineer, BAE Systems, Inc. (Summer 2008 - Present)

Research Programmer, Institute for Security Technology Studies (Summer 2007 - Summer 2008)

Developed AnonySense, a system for privacy-aware people-centric sensing in Ruby & C.

Developed Nymble, a system for anonymous ip-address blocking in Ruby & C.

Programmer, Campus Security Initiative, Dartmouth College (Fall 2006 - Summer 2008)

Developed Achilles, a web client for managing Nessus scans in Ruby on Rails.

Programmer, Institute for Security Technology Studies (Spring-Summer 2007)

Developed Baffle, a framework for behavioral based fingerprinting of 802.11 wireless devices in Ruby & C.

Intern, BAE Systems, Inc. (Summer-Fall 2006)

Some work with Windows Kernel Drivers. Extensive work with rootkit/anti-rootkit technology.

Intern, Institute for Security Technology Studies (Spring-Summer 2005, Winter-Fall 2006)

Developed TreeView, a tree-based log viewer in Java.

Developed system to parse, organize, and present linux tty (console) data collected from Honeypots using Java and MySQL.

Developed system to automatically analyze and archive phishing websites/malware received via email using Python.

Project Specialist, United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Fall 2005)

Designed and developed the organization’s website and intranet using a customized MediaWiki.

Conference & Workshop Publications

• Minho Shin, Patrick Tsang, David Kotz, Cory Cornelius, "DEAMON: Energy-efficient sensor monitoring," In Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Rome, Italy (June 22-26, 2009).
• Cory Cornelius, Apu Kapadia, David Kotz, Dan Peebles, Minho Shin, Nikos Triandopoulos, "AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing," In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys),
  Breckenridge, Colorado
  (June 17-20, 2008).
• Apu Kapadia, Nikos Triandopoulos, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, David Kotz, "AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection," In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE),
  Sydney, Australia
  (May 19-22, 2008).
• Sergey Bratus, Cory Cornelius, David Kotz, Dan Peebles, "Active Behavioral Fingerprinting of Wireless Devices," In Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), pp. 56-61,
  Alexandria, Virginia
  (March 30-April 2, 2008).

Journal Publications

• Patrick P. Tsang, Apu Kapadia, Cory Cornelius, Sean W. Smith, "Nymble: Blocking Misbehaving Users in Anonymizing Networks," To appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).

Talks

• "DEAMON: Energy-efficient sensor monitoring," The IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Rome, Italy (June 22-26, 2009).
• "Active 802.11 fingerprinting," ToorCon 2008,
  San Diego, California
  (September 26-28, 2008).
• "Active 802.11 fingerprinting," Blackhat USA 2008,
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  (August 2-7, 2008).
• "Dartmouth Cyber-Security Initiative and the New Achilles Vulnerability Assessment Console: A Case Study in Collaboration," The 12th Annual Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE),
  Dallas, Texas
  (June 2-4, 2008).
• "Dartmouth Cyber-Security Initiative and the New Achilles Vulnerability Assessment Console: A Case Study in Collaboration," EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference,
  Arlington, Virginia
  (May 4-6, 2008).
• "Active 802.11 fingerpinting: gibberish and 'secret handshakes' to know your AP," Shmoocon,
  Washington, District of Columbia
  (February 15-18, 2008).

Posters

• Minho Shin, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, Apu Kapadia, Patrick Tsang, David Kotz, "Reliable People-Centric Sensing with Unreliable Voluntary Carriers," In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys),
  Breckenridge, Colorado
  (June 17-20, 2008).

Awards

Google American Indian Science & Engineering Society Scholar (2008-2009)

John G. Kemeny Computing Prize (2006-2007)

Winner in the Team Design category for Achilles.

John G. Kemeny Computing Prize (2005-2006)

Winner in the Team Innovation category for BlitzChat: a DND-authenticated, location-aware instant messenger.

Memberships

• Student Member, American Indian Science and Engineering Society (2003 - present)
• Board of Directors, United American Indian Involvement (2002 - 2003)
• Advisory Board, Circles of Care (2002 - 2003)