Aimee Coughlin

Facebook
Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
ECEE 1B61A
Email: aimee dot coughlin at colorado dot edu, aimeemikaelac at gmail dot com GitHub Profile
PGP Key
PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 86CB BDFA D9DF F7ED F92C 22F5 6CE4 968B 3EC5 373B

I am a Security Engineer employed by Facebook on the Corporate Security team. I am also a graduated Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder in the [Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering] (http://ecee.colorado.edu/). I worked with Professor Eric Keller in the Network and Security Research Group (NSR). I received my undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Colorado School of Mines. My research interests are in embedded and network security, but I am also interested in networking, embedded systems, distributed systems and operating systems, including mobile applications and software-defined networking.

Research

M Coughlin, A Ismail, E Keller. “Apps with Hardware: Enabling Run-time Architectural Customization in Smart Phones” In Proceedings of the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC ‘16), Denver, CO, USA, June 2016. [abstract][paper][presentation][bibtex][source code]

M Coughlin, E Keller, E Wustrow. “Trusted Click: Overcoming Security issues of NFV in the Cloud” In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFVSec ‘17), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, March 2017. [abstract][paper][acm dl]

M Coughlin, A Ismail, E Keller. “Mobile Applications with Reconfigurable Hardware” Poster at the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, Broomfield, CO, USA, October 2014. [abstract][poster]

O Michel, M Coughlin, E Keller. “Extending the Software-defined Network Boundary” Poster at the ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, August 2014. [abstract][poster][acm dl]

M Coughlin, O Michel, E Keller, and A Aviv. “Making the Live Network the Honeypot”. Poster at the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘14), Seattle, WA, USA, April 2014. [abstract] [poster]

Education

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2009 - 2013

B.S. Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines, 2009 - 2013

M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013 - 2015

Ph.D. Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013 - 2018
Preliminary Exam: A Survey of SDN Security Research

Experience

Undergraduate Student Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 2012 - August 2012

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines, August 2012 - May 2013

Software Development Intern, SpinFusion, Inc., June 2013 - August 2013

Teaching Assistant, ECEN 1310, Professor Fabio Somenzi, University of Colorado Boulder, August 2013 - December 2013

Research Assistant, Professor Eric Keller, University of Colorado Boulder, January 2014 - May 2018

Security Engineering Intern, Facebook, Inc, May 2016 - August 2016

Security Engineering Intern, Facebook, Inc, June 2017 - September 2017

Security Engineer, Facebook, Inc, June 2018 - present