Robin Sommer
Senior Researcher
Networking and Security
International Computer Science Institute
United States of America
Biography
Robin Sommer received his Diplom (equivalent to a master's degree) from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1998 and his doctorate from the Technical University Munich in 2005. He was then awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at ICSI by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), after which he joined the ICSI research staff. He also holds a position as affiliated researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he works with the cyber-security team. He is on the steering committees of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses and the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment. He also served as the General Chair of the 2013 IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium. He, with Vern Paxson, leads research on and development of the Bro intrusion detection system.
Research Interest
His research interests include network security and privacy, with an emphasis on high-performance network monitoring in operational settings.
Publications
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Vallentin M, Paxson V, Sommer R. 2016. VAST: A Unified Platform for Interactive Network Forensics. Proceedings of USENIX Sympyosium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation.
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Sommer R, Amann J, Hall S. 2016. Spicy: A Unified Deep Packet Inspection Framework for Safely Dissecting All Your Data. Proceedings of 2016 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference.
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Caselli M, Zambon E, Amann J, Sommer R, Kargl F. 2016. Specification Mining for Intrusion Detection in Networked Control Systems. Proceedings of the 25th USENIX Security Symposium. :790-806.
