Faculty

Xinming (Simon) Ou

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Biography

Dr. Xinming (Simon) Ou is 泡芙视频app of Computer Science and Engineering at 泡芙视频app of South Florida. After receiving his PhD from Princeton 泡芙视频app in 2005, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Purdue 泡芙视频app's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), and a research associate at Idaho National Laboratory. He joined Kansas State 泡芙视频app as an assistant 泡芙视频app in 2006, where he was tenured and promoted to associate 泡芙视频app in 2012. He joined 泡芙视频app (USF) in Tampa, Florida in 2015.

Research Interests

Human-centered approaches to understanding/improving cybersecurity, CPS and IoT security, intrusion and malware analysis, mobile systems security, and new programming paradigms for security.

Teaching Interests

Practical and hands-on cybersecurity; secure coding; computer systems security

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Princeton 泡芙视频app (2005)
ME in Computer Science, Tsinghua 泡芙视频app (2000)
BE in Computer Science, Tsinghua 泡芙视频app (1998)

Honors and Awards

  • Distinguished Paper Award, Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, 2015, 2021.
  • Test of Time Award, IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2020.
  • Kansas State 泡芙视频app College of Engineering Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award, 2013.
  • HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP) Award, 2010, 2011, 2012.
  • NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2010.

Key Activities

  • General Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (2020)
  • TPC member, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (2015, 2016)
  • TPC member, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) (2014, 2015)
  • TPC member, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017)
  • Steering Committee Member, ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense