I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer
Science at Stanford University and
Co-Founder of Censys. My research brings a
large-scale, empirical approach to the study of security, abuse, and
misinformation on the Internet. I build systems to measure complex networked
ecosystems, and I use the resulting perspective to understand real-world
behavior, uncover weaknesses and attacks, architect more resilient approaches,
and guide policy decisions.
Students and Teaching
I lead the Stanford Empirical Security Research Group where
I advise:
Liz Izhikevich,
Gerry Wan,
Kimberly Ruth,
Hans Hanley,
Catherine Han,
Agur Adams
(co-advised with Phil Levis),
Rumaisa Habib,
Gautam Akiwate, and
Veronica Rivera. Alumni include: Deepak Kumar.
I teach
CS155 Computer and Network Security (2019–2024),
CS356 Topics in Systems and Network Security (2018–2023), and
CS249i The Modern Internet (2021–2024).
Select Publications
- Hans Hanley, Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland"), May 2024
- Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW), October 2023
- Best Paper Award
- Kimberly Ruth, Aurore Fass, Jonathan Azose, Mark Pearson, Emma Thomas, Caitlin Sadowski, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2022
- Gerry Wan, Fengchen Gong, Tom Barbette, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), August 2022
- Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, and Zakir Durumeric
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2021
- Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael Bailey, Elie Bursztein, Dan Boneh, Sunny Consolvo,
Nicki Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy,
Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, and Gianluca Stringhini
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland"), May 2021
- Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Benton Case, Zakir Durumeric, Peter Eckersley, Alan Flores-Lopez,
- J. Alex Halderman, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, James Kasten, Eric Rescorla, Seth Schoen, Brad Warren
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2019
- Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran
- Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever,
- Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2017
- Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti,
- Nicholas Lidzborski, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2015
- IETF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP)
- David Adrian, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Zakir Durumeric, Pierrick Gaudry, Matthew Green,
- J. Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger, Drew Springall, Emmanuel Thomé, Luke Valenta,
- Benjamin VanderSloot, Eric Wustrow, Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, and Paul Zimmermann
- ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2015
- Best Paper Award
- Zakir Durumeric, Frank Li, James Kasten, Johanna Amann, Jethro Beekman, Mathias Payer,
- Nicolas Weaver, David Adrian, Vern Paxson, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2014
- Best Paper Award
- Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2013
- Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2012
- Best Paper Award; Test of Time Award (2022)