Tudor Dumitraș

Associate Professor
5228 Iribe Center
(301) 405-7466
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Education: 
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Biography: 

Tudor Dumitraș is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering with an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

His research covers a range of data-driven security topics, including empirical studies of adversary behavior, machine learning systems for malware and attack detection, and security in adversarial environments. Dumitraș’s work aims to build defenses based on a rigorous understanding of real-world adversaries, addressing the challenges of detecting and mitigating threats in complex, dynamic security landscapes.

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Publications

2013


Dumitras T, Narasimhan P.  2013.  A study of unpredictability in fault-tolerant middleware. Computer Networks. 57(3):682-698.

2012


Dumitras T, Efstathopoulos P..  2012.  The Provenance of WINE. Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), 2012 Ninth European.
:126-131.

Dumitras T, Efstathopoulos P.  2012.  Ask WINE: Are We Safer Today? Evaluating Operating System Security Through Big Data Analysis LEET'12 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX conference on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats.
:11-11.

Bilge L, Dumitras T.  2012.  Before We Knew It: An Empirical Study of Zero-day Attacks in the Real World. CCS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security.
:833-844.

2011


Dumitras T, Shou D.  2011.  Toward a Standard Benchmark for Computer Security Research: The Worldwide Intelligence Network Environment (WINE). BADGERS '11 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security.
:89-96.

Neamtiu I., Dumitras T.  2011.  Cloud software upgrades: Challenges and opportunities. 2011 International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (MESOCA) .
:1-10.

2010


Dumitras T, Narasimhan P, Tilevich E.  2010.  To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade: Impact of Online Upgrades Across Multiple Administrative Domains. OOPSLA'10 Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications.
:865-876.

2009


Dumitras T, Narasimhan P.  2009.  Toward Upgrades-as-a-service in Distributed Systems. Middleware'09 Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware.
:29:1-29:2.

Dumitras T.  2009.  Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise Systems. OOPSLA'09 Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference Companion on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications.
:743-744.

Dumitras T, Narasimhan P.  2009.  Why Do Upgrades Fail and What Can We Do About It?: Toward Dependable, Online Upgrades in Enterprise System Middleware'09 Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware.
:18:1-18:20.

2008


Dumitras T, Dig D, Neamtiu I.  2008.  1st ACM workshop on hot topics in software upgrades (HotSWUp 2008). OOPSLA Companion'08 Companion to the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications.
:837-838.

2007


Dumitras T, Narasimhan P.  2007.  Got Predictability?: Experiences with Fault-tolerant Middleware MC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware Companion.
:20:1-20:22.

Dumitras T, Roşu D, Dan A, Narasimhan P.  2007.  Ecotopia: An Ecological Framework for Change Management in Distributed Systems. Architecting Dependable Systems IV.
:262-286.

2006


Dumitras T, Lee M., Quinones P., Smailagic A., Siewiorek D, Narasimhan P..  2006.  Eye of the Beholder: Phone-Based Text-Recognition for the Visually-Impaired. 2006 10th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
:145-146.

2005


Narasimhan P., Dumitras T, Paulos A.M, Pertet S.M, Reverte C.F, Slember J.G, Srivastava D..  2005.  MEAD: support for Real-Time Fault-Tolerant CORBA. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 17(12):1527-1545.

Dumitras T, Srivastava D, Narasimhan P.  2005.  Architecting and Implementing Versatile Dependability. Architecting Dependable Systems III.
:212-231.

Dumitras T, Narasimhan P.  2005.  Fault-Tolerant Middleware and the Magical 1%. Middleware 2005.
:431-441.

2004


Dumitras T, Kerner S, Marculescu R.  2004.  Enabling On-chip Diversity Through Architectural Communication Design. ASP-DAC '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference.
:799-805.

2003


Dumitras T, Marculescu R..  2003.  On-chip stochastic communication [SoC applications]. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2003.
:790-795.

Dumitras T, Kerner S, M\uarculescu R.  2003.  Towards On-chip Fault-tolerant Communication. ASP-DAC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference.
:225-232.