Birhanu Eshete, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Computer and Information Science
DAIR
313-583-6669
229 Computer and Information Science Building | 4901 Evergreen Road |
Dearborn, MI
48128
schedule
Not teaching
Teaching Areas:
Computer and Information Science, Cybersecurity and Information AssuranceResearch Areas:
Computing and Networks, CybersecurityBiography and Education
Education
- Ph.D., University of Trento
- M.Sc., Addis Ababa University
- B.S., Addis Ababa University
Teaching and Research
Courses Taught
Selected Publications
- Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete, Vinod Yegneswaran, Nguyen Phong Hoang. DeResistor: Toward Detection-Resistant Probing for Evasion of Internet Censorship. Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (SEC’23), 2023.
- Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete. MIAShield: Defending Membership Inference Attacks via Preemptive Exclusion of Members. Proceedings of the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS'23), 2023.
- Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete, Vinod Yegneswaran. Adversarial Detection of Censorship Measurements. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’22), co-located with the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22), 202
- Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete. DP-UTIL: Comprehensive Utility Analysis of Differential Privacy in Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY), 2022.
- Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete. EG-Booster: Explanation-Guided Booster of ML Evasion Attacks. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY), 2022.
- Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete. Morphence: Moving Target Defense Against Adversarial Examples. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2021.
- Abderrahmen Amich, Birhanu Eshete. Explanation-Guided Diagnosis of Machine Learning Evasion Attacks. In Proceedings of the 17th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2021.
- Abdullah Ali, Birhanu Eshete. Best-Effort Adversarial Approximation of Black-Box Malware Classifiers. In Proceedings of the 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2020.
- Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, V.N. Venkatakrishnan. Poirot: Aligning Attack Behavior with Kernel Audit Records for Cyber Threat Hunting. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2019.
- Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Rigel Gjomemo, Birhanu Eshete, R. Sekar, V.N. Venkatakrishnan. HOLMES: Real-time APT Detection through Correlation of Suspicious Information Flows. In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (S&P), 2019.
- Abeer Alhuzali, Rigel Gjomemo, Birhanu Eshete, Venkat Venkatakrishnan. NAVEX: Precise and Scalable Exploit Generation for Dynamic Web Applications. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SEC), 2018.
- Md Nahid Hossain, Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Junao Wang, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, R. Sekar, Scott Stoller, Venkat Venkatakrishnan. SLEUTH: Real-time Attack Scenario Reconstruction from COTS Audit Data. In Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SEC), 2017.
- Birhanu Eshete, Venkat Venkatakrishnan. DynaMiner: Leveraging Infection Dynamics Analytics for On-the-Wire Malware Detection. In Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2017.
- Abeer Alhuzali, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, Venkat Venkatakrishnan. Chainsaw: Chained Automated Workflow-based Exploit Generation. In Proceedings of Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), 2016.
- Birhanu Eshete, Venkat Venkatakrishnan. WebWinnow: Leveraging Exploit Kit Workflows to Detect Malicious URLs. In Proceedings of Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY), 2014.
Awards and Recognition
- 2023 NSF CAREER Award (Award #2238084)
- 2021 NSF Research Grant (Award #2103596)
- 2020 U.S. Patent (0059481)
- 2019 Research Grant, NSF/UIC
- 2019 Ford Summer Sabbatical Program
- 2018 Applied Research Competition Finalist (US-Canada), CSAW'18
- 2018 Distinguished Paper Award, USENIX Security'18
- 2013 USENIX Travel Grant, USENIX Association
- 2010 Best Paper Award, ICDS 2010