Benjamin E. Ujcich

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University working on secure systems and network design research. I am a member of the Department’s SecLab, where we investigate information assurance and computer and network security challenges.

Interests

My research interests span the systems and networking realm. In particular, I am interested in securing future networking architectures such as intent-based networking (IBN), 5G security, 6G/next-gen networking security, software-defined networking (SDN), programmable control planes, programmable data planes (e.g., OpenFlow and P4), and network operating systems. I am also interested in applications of data provenance for systems and networks.

Please see my research projects, teaching, and CV for more information.

News

• October 2024: Our work on temporal vulnerabilities in intent-based networks presented at ACM CCS ‘24
• August 2024: Our work on provenance-enabled explainable AI accepted to ACM SIGMOD ‘25
• June 2024: Our article on security challenges in intent-based networking published in the Communications of the ACM (CACM)
• May 2024: Our work on P4-based “shuffle proxies” for censorship circumvention presented at IEEE S&P/Oakland ‘24
• March 2024: Awarded the NSF CAREER Award for secure and trustworthy intent-based networking
• August 2023: Our work on vulnerability detection in intent-based networks presented at USENIX Security ‘23

Current Students

• Dhiraj Saharia (PhD)
• Zhao Zhang (PhD, co-advised with Micah Sherr)

Alumni

• Jiachi Zhang (PhD ‘23, co-advised with Wenchao Zhou)

Working With Me

Students at or applying to Georgetown: I am currently interested in working with students who have security, systems, and/or networking backgrounds and who are interested in computer security research. Please contact me by e-mail if interested! If you are not a student at Georgetown already, check out an overview of the CS PhD program at Georgetown and how to apply to Georgetown.

Collaborators: If you would like to collaborate (academic or industry), please contact me!

Contact

Benjamin E. Ujcich
Department of Computer Science
Georgetown University

St. Mary’s Hall, Room 315-F
3700 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC 20057 USA
e-mail bu31 [at] georgetown [dot] edu
web https://benujcich.georgetown.domains/

PGP key: 9B35 59DE D3CE ECF0 44B5 A1B6 D421 784B 458F 6B3F

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