Landon Cox
Assistant Professor
Duke University
P.O. Box 90129
Durham, NC 27708-0129

Office LSRC, Room D304
Phone (919) 627-7179
Fax (919) 660-6519
Email lpcox.AT.cs.duke.edu
Last update
[Dec.23.09]
We recently received support from ATT Labs, NSF, and Amazon to investigate location privacy in online social networks.

Look for our HotMobile paper in Annapolis in February.

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Research I work at the intersection of distributed systems, mobile computing, and operating systems, with a focus on privacy and security. Here are a few recent and relevant publications (click the paper title for a PDF file):

Toward Trustworthy Mobile Sensing
Peter Gilbert, Landon P. Cox, Jaeyeon Jung, and David Wetherall
HotMobile 2010
Annapolis, MD, February 2010

RedFlag: Reducing Inadvertent Leaks by Personal Machines
Landon P. Cox and Peter Gilbert
Duke University, Technical Report TR-2009-02
PPT slides from talks on RedFlag at Georgia Tech, UWashington, MSR, and UNC.

SMILE: Encounter-Based Trust for Mobile Social Services
Justin Manweiler, Ryan Scudellari, and Landon P. Cox
CCS 2009
Chicago, Il, November, 2009

Virtual Individual Servers as Privacy-Preserving Proxies for Mobile Devices
Ramón Cáceres, Landon P. Cox, Harold Lim, Amre Shakimov, and Alexander Varshavsky
MobiHeld 2009
Barcelona, Spain, August, 2009

Privacy, Cost, and Availability Tradeoffs in Decentralized OSNs
Amre Shakimov, Alexander Varshavsky, Landon P. Cox, and Ramón Cáceres
WOSN 2009
Barcelona, Spain, August, 2009

Experimenting in Mobile Social Contexts Using JellyNets
Peter Gilbert, Eduardo Cuervo, and Landon P. Cox
HotMobile 2009
Santa Cruz, CA, February 2009

A list of my other publications can be found here.

Students Eduardo Cuervo
Peter Gilbert
Amre Shakimov
Professional
activities
Mobisys 2010
HotMobile 2010
IPTPS 2009
USENIX Technical 2009
Mobisys 2009
HotMobile 2009
ICDCS 2009
UrbanSense 2008
MobiVirt 2008
Mobisys 2008
IPTPS 2008
HotMobile 2008
UbiComp Late Breaking Results 2007
MobiEval 2007
EC 2007
ICDCS 2007
HotOS 2007
HotMobile 2007
Advanced Data Processing in Ubiquitous Computing (ADPUC) 2006
NetEcon 2006
Teaching CPS 110, Undergraduate Operating Systems (Spring 2008)
CPS 110, Undergraduate Operating Systems (Fall 2007)
CPS 210, Graduate Operating Systems (Spring 2007)
CPS 110, Undergraduate Operating Systems (Fall 2006)
CPS 210, Graduate Operating Systems (Spring 2006)
CPS 296.1, Self-Interested Computing (Fall 2005)