Biography

Brad Reaves is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Wolfpack Security and Privacy Research (WSPR) Lab.

His research is dedicated to measuring and improving the security and privacy of computer systems, with a particular emphasis on telephone networks and software for mobile platforms. This work has addressed detection and measurement of mobile malware in the wild, identified systemic risks in developing world mobile money systems, and provided new techniques to distinguish legitimate and fraudulent phone calls. His research integrates knowledge from fields as diverse as signal processing and digital communications; data science, machine learning, and statistics; cryptography; program analysis; reverse engineering; and Internet and telephone networks.

Research Areas

• Cyber Security

Education

Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2017
M.S., Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015
 

CSC Fall Courses

• CSC 774-001 LEC Adv Net Security   F 3:00pm-5:45pm   Room: 1228 Engineering Building 2

Awards

• Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) - 2013