Transitioning to the Commercial Marketplace

Paul Barford an associate professor in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a PhD in computer science from Boston University. He is the founder and director of the Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory. His research is focused on developing new techniques and tools for gathering information on the structure and dynamic behavior of the Internet. He is also focused on developing new methods for protecting networks and systems from malicious attacks, and is the founder and CEO of Nemean Networks, a network security start-up company located in the Madison area. Prof. Barford has authored numerous publications in highly competitive journals and conferences. His work is funded by the NSF, DHS, ARO, NSA and companies including Cisco, Intel, Sun and others. He has served on committees of many conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS ('10 TPC chair), IMC ('06 TPC chair), CCS and USENIX Security. He is the Chair of the NSF/GENI Network Measurement Working Group, a member of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference steering committee, an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National LambdaRail.