Kevin Borders is a Ph. D. student at the University of Michigan where he researches computer and network security, His previous work includes research on intrusion detection, discovering data leakage through covert channels, and spyware mitigation. He received a B.S.E. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in May 2004.

E-mail:
kborders@umich.edu

Website:
http://www.kevinborders.com

Xin Zhao received B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Nanjing University, China, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a graduate student in the Comptuer Science Ph. D. Program and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include comptuer security and virtual machine systems.

E-mail:
zhaoxin@eecs.umich.edu

Website:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~zhaoxin/

Dr. Atul Prakash is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the university of Michigan. He received a B. Tech. from the Indian institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 1982 and M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. His research interests include system security, groupware systems, and software engineering. He has published over 50 papers in these areas. Smithsonian-Computer World innovation Awards Program selected his project, the Upper Atmosphere Research Collaborator (UARC), for inclusion in the Smithsonian permanent archives. He is a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

E-mail:
aprakash@eecs.umich.edu

Website: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~aprakash/