Scholar
Dave Levin
Google Scholar ID: CLSPQW4AAAAJ
University of Maryland
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,131
H-index
33
i10-index
55
Publications
20
Co-authors
73
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper 'Hammurabi: A Framework for Pluggable, Logic-based X.509 Certificate Validation Policies' received Best Paper Honorable Mention at ACM CCS 2022
- Paper 'GET /out: Automated Discovery of Application-Layer Censorship Evasion Strategies' presented at USENIX Security 2022
- Paper 'Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube' presented at IEEE Security & Privacy 2022
- Research on satellites broadcasting sensitive data in the clear covered by Wired (October 2025)
- Co-designed and ran the 'Build it, break it, fix it' secure programming competition
Research Experience
- Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
- Founder of Breakerspace, a lab for undergraduate research in computer and network security
- General Chair of ACM IMC 2021, ACM SOSR 2017, and HotNets 2013
- Regularly serves on program committees (e.g., IEEE S&P 2023, PAM 2020) and NSF panels
- Has visited Congress to advocate for increased national funding for scientific research
Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland
- Research focuses on empirically measuring Internet security and designing new systems with provable and usable security using economics and cryptography
- Research interests include the Web's PKI, censorship avoidance, DNS root servers, and more
- Founded Breakerspace, a lab for undergraduate group research in computer and network security, to scale research opportunities for students
- Co-Chair of the UMD CS Undergraduate Honors Program
