Jan 2014

Shlomo Hershkop is currently an Assistant Director of the Computing Research Labs and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of Columbia University.
He is also an associate research scientist with the IDS Lab at Columbia University.
From 2005-2007 he was on the teaching staff as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Columbia University's Computer Science Department. He Received his B.A from Yeshiva University ('99), Masters ('01)and PhD ('06) from Columbia University. His Adviser was Prof Salvatore (Sal) Stolfo .

His current research interests include computer security problems involving
data mining and machine learning particularly in network flows, user profiling, and email analysis.
See Research for more details. He also researches big data issues including scalability, accessibility, and security
with a machine learning approach. He generally teaches Data Structures and Algorithms course
with an emphasis on systems and security.
For Spring 2014, He is teaching an Intrusion Detection System course with an emphasis of "not getting caught".
His thesis was titled: "Behavior-based Email Analysis with Application to Spam Detection"

In the past, he headed the Columbia Intrusion Detection Project IDS
and was a member of the Columbia Data Mining Lab.

Projects included working on the Insider Project
which is a large scale research project on insider security.
He spent a lot of time building and extending
the Email Mining Toolkit (EMT) which was the basis for a major part in his PhD research.
The Decubed Project was another project which was later commercialized.

Misc:

Book: Insider Attacks and Cyber Security (2008)

Defended Ph.D. Thesis - Aug 19, 2005

Louis Morin Fellowship 2002, 2003, 2004

Talk at Spam conference Jan 2004, MIT

Made it to the Front Cover of Network World
for the article click here

2001 Founding Member of CounterStorm (Formally System Detection)