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Carnegie Mellon CyLab Japan Faculty(Teaching Staff)
Name Danny Fernandes
Specialty Telecommunications Management, Decision Making
Course
Telecommunications management, Decision making under uncertainty, Statistics
Profile
He received a B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Nairobi. He also has a MPhil from Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently an adjunct Faculty at Heinz College, School of Information Systems and Management. He previously lectured at the University of Nairobi in the Faculty of Commerce. He also worked as a design engineer and later as an IT consultant for various international aid agencies located in Nairobi. His research interests are in investigating how privacy can be effectively managed by users of web-based services. He is also a member of the Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT) Carnegie Mellon where he investigates the determinants of assistive technology acceptance for the elderly and people with disabilities user groups. He has published articles in peer reviewed journals such as Decision Support Systems and Journal of Industrial Economics. He has also presented papers at various national and international conferences.

Name Yoshihiro Kilho Shin
Specialty Cryptography, Machine learning theory
Course Applied Cryptography
Profile
He received an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo and a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo. He is currently a faculty of Carnegie Mellon CyLab Japan and a adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon Information Network Institute. He worked at Fuji Xerox corporate research laboratory as a principal researcher, where he studied tree automaton theory, cryptography and information security. His current research interests include devising technology for untraceable authentication and machine learning theory, with a focus on the kernel method.

Keiji Takeda
Name Keiji Takeda
Specialty intrusion detection, reverse engineering, incident response
Course Security Architecture & Analysis
Profile
He received a Ph.D. in Media and Governance at Keio University. He has worked for Defense Agency of Japan, Japan Air Self Defense Force, and Accenture. He is currently a visiting professor of Carnegie Mellon CyLab Japan and an adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon Information Network Institute, also a professor of Keio University. He has conducted R&D, operation, education, and consultation in information security area.
Personal Web
http://motivate.jp/ (Japanese)
http://blogs.itmedia.co.jp/keiji/ (Japanese)

Carnegie Mellon CyLab/INI/Heinz Faculty
Nicolas Christin
Name Nicolas Christin
Specialty Computer networks, including network economics and network security
Course Introduction to Information Security, Security in Networked Systems
Profile

Nicolas Christin is Associate Director of Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute, with the experience of international assignment in CyLab Japan as a resident faculty since July 2005 to August 2008. He received the Engineering Degree from Ecole Centrale Lille, France, in 1999, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2002-2003, he worked in Nortel's Advanced Technology group, From 2003 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley. His research interests are in computer networks, network security, and network economics, and range from designing and evaluating formal models and algorithms to implementation aspects and measurements.

Personal Web
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc/

Name Riaz Esmailzadeh
Specialty Telecommunications Management, E- and M-Commerce, Entrepreneurial Project Management, and Ethics and Public Policy.
Course Telecommunications Management, Ethics and Public Policy, An Introduction to Electronic Commerce
Profile
Riaz Esmailzadeh is an Associate Professor of Management of Technology at Carnegie-Mellon University, based in Adelaide, Australia; where he is responsible for teaching Telecommunications Management, E- and M-Commerce, Entrepreneurial Project Management, and Ethics and Public Policy.
Riaz received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1994, and MBA from IMD, Switzerland, in 2002. He has over 19 years of work experience in various capacities related to telecommunications research, development, management and education. Riaz was a research engineer in Telstra, Australia, continued at the central research laboratories of Hitachi in Tokyo, and after working at Ericsson in Sweden, founded the research unit at Nippon Ericsson. In 2002-2005, he was an Associate Professor at the Information and Computer Science Department of Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. He returned to Australia in August 2006 to take up his present position at CMU.

Ramayya Krishnan
Name Ramayya Krishnan
Specialty Management Science and Information Systems
Course Telecommunication Management
Profile
Professor Krishnan received a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. His current research is in information security risk management, p2p networks and data privacy.
He is a member of the NSF STIM Center(National Science Foundation Security Through Interaction Modeling) at CMU.
Personal Web
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/rk2x.html

William (Bill) Nace
Name William (Bill) Nace
Specialty Networks and Digital Systems
Course Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks
Profile
Bill Nace is a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CMU. He received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 2002 and his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1989. He served in the US Air Force for over 25 years with assignments writing user interfaces for command and control centers, running a test group in a semiconductor fab and as Chief Scientist of a Tokyo based office responsible for generating collaborative relationships between scientists in Asia and the Air Force. His research interests are digital design, embedded systems and dependable systems.

Rahul Telang
Name Rahul Telang
Specialty Economics of Information security; Economic models of user choices for technologies
Course Information Security Risk Policy and Management
Profile
Assistant Professor Telang received PhD, Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper School of Business). His current work explores issues of market mechanism for software vulnerabilities, role of patching in software quality and optimal time to disclose vulnerabilities. He has been involved in empirical as well as analytical studies of competition and market structures of informations goods networks.
Personal Web
http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/rtelang.html

Name Victor Pontines
Specialty Open economy macroeconomics and International Finance
Course Economic Analysis
Profile

Professor Pontines received a PhD in Economics from The University of Adelaide, Australia. He is currently a Lecturer in Economics and Public Policy at CarnegieMellonHeinzSchool, Adelaide campus. Specific topics of research interest include currency crises, exchange rate regimes, contagion, international capital flows and regional monetary integration with particular reference to the East Asian region.


Chris May
Name Soon Hin Khor
Course Special Topics: Advanced Elements of Network Security
Profile
Soon Hin Khor received his Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore and his Masters of Science from Carnegie Mellon Cylab Japan. He is currently a final year Ph.D. student in the University of Tokyo. In between those years, he worked as a Security Consultant in IBM Singapore, a researcher in IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency and Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). His experience includes building and running security operation centers to monitor critical customer infrastructure as well as providing security consultancy services. He is currently researching into Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, usable security and vulnerability testing. He also holds various IT practitioner certifications from Cisco, Sun Microsystems and ISC2.

Chris May
Name Chris May
Specialty Networked Systems Survivability Program; practices, development, and training team; network security best practices; developing and teaching publicly offered CERT courses
Course Applied Information Assurance
Profile
Sr. Member of the Technical Staff at CERT® Coordination Center

Richard Nolan
Name Richard Nolan
Specialty Networked Systems Survivability Program; practices, development, and training team; network security best practices; developing and teaching publicly offered CERT courses
Course Applied Information Assurance
Profile
Sr. Member of the Technical Staff at CERT® Coordination Center


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