Paul Sroufe will be receiving his M.S. in Computer Science in December 2009. He specializes in computer networks where his passion is information security. Paul has been working with Dr. Ram Dantu for over a year on various research projects and papers. He has recently published a paper on his work involving behavioral feature extraction of emails. Another long paper is in submission currently. The work includes spam and ham classification, identifying spam botnets, and personal finger print analysis of emails. This work will hopefully be a good foundation for his thesis.

Dr. Dantu has been hugely influential and has helped Paul a great deal over the past year. For that, Paul would like to say, "Thanks Dr. Dantu!" Paul recently participated in the 2009 Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. "This year's competition was brutally tough but all the same enjoyable and a great learning experience." said Paul. He recommends it to anyone that enjoys IT security.

In his free time, Paul enjoys the outdoors including paintball and camping/hiking, games, working out at the gym, and spending time with his friends.