Welcome to Node 99

I'm Sean Whalen, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. I am jointly advised by Matt Bishop (Computer Security) and Jim Crutchfield (Physics). My frequent partner in crime is Sophie Engle. My main research interests are computer security, statistical inference, and information visualization. In addition to my dissertation research I work for the KeckCAVES project, developing a cross-discipline network visualization tool.

I'm also a former electronic musician under the moniker Lucidity, and network artist with the group Eidolon.

> Publications

Protocol State Machine Inference
Sean Whalen, Matt Bishop, and Jim Crutchfield (In Preparation)

Structural Drift
Jim Crutchfield and Sean Whalen (In Preparation)

Case Studies of an Insider Framework
Matt Bishop, Sophie Engle, Carrie Gates, Sean Peisert, and Sean Whalen, To appear in Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 2009 [pdf]

We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us
Matt Bishop, Sophie Engle, Carrie Gates, Sean Peisert, and Sean Whalen, To appear in Proceedings of the 2008 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), September 2008 [pdf soon]

> Technical Reports

Modeling Computer Insecurity
Sophie Engle, Sean Whalen, and Matt Bishop, CSE-2008-14 [pdf]

Tree Approach to Vulnerability Classification
Sophie Engle, Sean Whalen, Damien Howard, and Matt Bishop, CSE-2006-10 [pdf]

A Practical Formalism for Vulnerability Comparison
Sophie Engle, Sean Whalen, Damien Howard, Adam Carlson, Elliot Proebstel, and Matt Bishop, CSE-2006 [pdf]

Protocol Vulnerability Analysis
Sean Whalen, Sophie Engle, and Matt Bishop, CSE-2005 [pdf]

> Selected Archived Projects

Aural State Splitter, 2009 [link]

Monte Carlo Visualization of the Logistic Map Orbit Diagram, 2008 [link, requires Java]

DyPy, a dynamical systems visualizer in Python and OpenGL, 2008 [link]

Audio and the Graphics Processing Unit, 2005 [pdf]

Finding User/Kernel Pointer Bugs in FreeBSD, 2004 [pdf]

Layer 2 Authentication, 2004 [pdf]

Game Theory: Modeling Decisions in Conflict, 2004 [pdf]

Quantum Architecture: A Survey for Non-Physicists, 2003 [pdf]

Autonomous Multi-Robot Foraging in a Simulated Environment, 2003 [link]

Nintendo Powerglove kernel driver for Linux, 2002 [link]

Graph Coloring with Genetic Algorithms, 2002 [pdf]

Mognet, an 802.11b Protocol Analyzer in Java, 2001

An Introduction to ARP Spoofing, 2001 [pdf]