Landon Cox

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)