Bourns College of Engineering

332 Engineering II
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-2480
FAX: 951-827-4643

Michalis Faloutsos

Michalis Faloutsos received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1993, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1995 and 1999, respectively.

RESEARCH TOPICS

Dr. Faloutsos’ research is in the areas of:  (a) network security: secure routing, intrusion detection, application classification, URL hijacking, (b) Peer-to-peer networks: measurements, models, and implications, and (c) measurements and routing in any form: Internet, ad hoc networks, multicast, and BGP.

LATEST RESULTS

• Developed a novel method for detecting fraudulent websites, namely typosquatting and sites that distribute viruses.
• Developed novel methods to identify and classify applications over the network and detect intrusions and viruses.
• Co-authored one of the top-20 most cited paper of 1999: ``On powerlaw relationships of the Internet topology", with Petros Faloutsos and Christos Faloutsos (Digital Library: www.citeseer.nj.nec.com).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Dr. Faloutsos’ professional services include serving as a Program Chair of IEEE Global Internet 2007, and being in the Ediotrial Board of ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. He is also actively involved in many journals and conferences as a reviewer and in many NSF pannels. He authors the popular editorial column “You must be joking” ACM SIGCOMM CCR.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Dr. Faloutsos received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2000 and several NSF, DARPA and MURI grants. In addition, he is actively collaborating with companies, such as CISCO, Intel, and Qualcomm.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Cyber-Fraud is One Typo Away", Anirban Banerjee and Dhiman Barman and Michalis Faloutsos and Laxmi Bhuyan " IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference 2008.

"The P2P War: Someone is Monitoring your Activities", A. Banerjee, M. Faloutsos and L. Bhuyan, Computer Networks (Elsevier), 52(6): 1272-1280 (2008).

“TrueLink: A Practical Countermeasure to the Wormhole Attack in Wireless Networks”, J. Eriksson, S. V. Krishnamurthy , M. Faloutsos, IEEE ICNP 2006.

“On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology,” Faloutsos, M., P. Faloutsos and C. Faloutsos. ACM SIGCOMM'99, 1999.

“QoSMIC: Quality of Service Sensitive Multicast Internet protoCol”,  Faloutsos, M., A. Banerjea and R. Pankaj. ACM SIGCOMM'98, 1998.