Sean Peisert

Photograph of me lecturing at the blackboard (credit: R. Benjamin Shapiro, 2002).

Upcoming events that I'm involved with:

CLHS (Abstracts due Apr. 4, 2013)

NSPW 2013 (Papers due Apr. 5, 2013)

CSET 2013 (Papers due Apr. 25, 2013)

S&P 2013 (May 20–22, 2013)

Students & Postdocs

I have had the absolute privilege to work with and learn from insanely great students.

Ph.D. Students Advised

Kevin Griffin (LLNL), March 2012–present (co-advising with Prof. Ken Joy)
Jonathan Ganz, September 2011–present
Sisi Duan, June 2011–present (advanced to candidacy; co-advising with Prof. Karl Levitt)
Anhad Singh, Sept. 2010–present (advanced to candidacy; co-advising with Prof. Matt Bishop)

Sophie Engle, Ph.D., March 2010 (unofficially; official advisor was Prof. Matt Bishop)
Dissertation: A Policy-Based Vulnerability Analysis Framework
Current: Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco

M.S. Students Advised

Vinod Balachandran, Sept. 2011–present
Chaoyi Du (USF), M.S., June 2012.
Bo Hu (USF), M.S., June 2012.
Srikar Reddy, M.S., Dec. 2010
Current: Sybase (SAP)

Postdoctoral Scholars Supervised

Sean Whalen, 2010 I3P Fellow, Sept. 2010–Sept. 2011

Current Affiliation: Postdoc at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Recent Affiliation: Postdoc at Columbia University
Postdoc Affiliation: Jointly appointed at Berkeley Lab and UC Davis
Research Areas: Multiple applications of machine learning and graph theory.

"What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.""

—Sir Issac Newton to Robert Hooke, in a letter dated Feb. 5 1676

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