Testimony of Dr

I am an assistant professor in the department of computer science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. I earned my bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and my doctorate degree at Princeton University in 1999. I study computer security and have published over forty refereed academic papers on computer security and related topics. I have investigated the security of web browsers and web servers, looking at how to keep your computer from being hijacked just because you clicked the wrong link. Several of my contributions shipped as part of Netscape’s Communicator in 1996 and are now part of every Java system in use today. I have also investigated the security of other networked and distributed systems. In general, I look at computer security as an engineering problem. The goal in designing and building a secure system is to understand the threats the system might face and to build in appropriate safeguards to protect against those threats.