Technical Biography

Scott M. Lewandowski
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
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fax: 781-981-0186
email: scl@ll.mit.edu


In 1999, Scott Lewandowski received the A.B. degree in Computer Science and Business Economics magna cum laude from Brown University. His degree in Computer Science was awarded with Honors due to his research pertaining to maintaining node symmetry in networked Windows NT environments. In 2000, he received the Sc.M. degree in Computer Science from Brown University. His thesis on dynamic software instrumentation addresses several limitations found in other instrumentation systems. While at Brown, Scott served as a Head Teaching Assistant for courses covering compiler theory and implementation, computer architecture, and computers and society.

From 1993 - 2000, Scott was active in the consulting community. He has played major roles in application development, research, and systems integration projects with numerous companies, including Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, American Power Conversion, H&R Block, and Siemens. During this time, Scott also designed computer-based business solutions for and provided end-user training to numerous manufacturing, legal, accounting, sales, and hospitality businesses.

In June 2000, Scott joined the Information Systems Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he conducts research in the areas of network and host-based information assurance. Shortly after joining Lincoln Laboratory, Scott led the development of SARA, an architecture that facilitates intelligent automatic "machine-time" responses to computer attacks. After the successful evaluation of SARA, he focused his research on building systems to provide secure execution environments using secure, context-rich software wrappers. This work resulted in a novel approach for preventing applications from misusing network resources and a number of fundamental insights regarding the viability of protecting commercial operating systems from sophisticted threats. He was a principal contributor to Lincoln Laboratory's early work on detecting and analyzing the payloads and propagation mechanisms of malicious code. Scott has significant experience in the area of detecting and mitigating malicious insider activity, and has co-chaired a number of workshops on the topic. He currently works on a number of programs, including, but not limited to: worm analysis and defense; cognitive applications of software-defined radios; large-scale information assurance testbeds; and robust communication architectures for intermittently connected, dynamic systems.

Scott is an active member of the ACM and Sigma Xi, and serves as the Information Director for ACM Computing Surveys.

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