Timothy Paul Parker

About Me:

I recently finished a Ph.D. in computer security at the University of Texas at San Antonio, working with Dr. Shouhuai Xu. My interests lie in the intersections of cryptography and systems. I did previous graduate work in systems at Rice University, and after that I was a kernel developer at HP and then did natural language processing for ARDA.



Security Publications:

  1. Shouhuai Xu, Xiaohu Li, Paul Parker, and Xueping Wang. Exploiting Trust-Based Social Networks for Distributed Protection of Sensitive Data, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS), accepted.
  2. T. Paul Parker and Shouhuai Xu. A Method for Safekeeping Cryptographic Keys from Memory Disclosure Attacks. International Conference on Trusted Systems (INTRUST), 2009.
  3. X. Li, P. Parker, and S. Xu. A Stochastic Model for Quantitative Security Analysis of Networked Systems. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), 2008, to appear (vol. 8, no. 1, January-February 2011, pp 28-43).
  4. X. Li, P. Parker, and S. Xu. A Probabilistic Characterization of A Fault-Tolerant Gossiping Algorithm. Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Springer, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 88-108, 2009.
  5. Shouhuai Xu, Xiaohu Li, and Paul Parker. Exploiting Social Networks for Thresholding Signing: Attack-resilience vs. Availability. ASIACCS'08.
  6. Erhan J. Kartaltepe, T. Paul Parker, Shouhuai Xu.  How to Secure Your Email Address Book and Beyond, 6th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS 2007).
  7. Xiaohu Li, T. Paul Parker, and Shouhuai Xu. A Stochastic Characterization of a Fault-Tolerant Gossip Algorithm. IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance System Engineering (HASE), 2007.
  8. Xiaohu Li, T. Paul Parker, and Shouhuai Xu. Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems.  International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine), 2007.
  9. T. Paul Parker. Safekeeping Your Keys: Keep Them Out of RAM. DSN'07 student forum track.
  10. X. Li, P. Parker, and S. Xu. Towards Quantifying the (In)Security of Networked Systems. IEEE AINA'07.
  11. P. Parker and S. Xu. Towards Understanding the (In)security of Networked Systems under Topology-directed Stealthy Attacks. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), pp ???-???.

Presentations:

  1. Xiaohu Li, T. Paul Parker, and Shouhuai Xu. Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems.  International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (Qshine), 2007.
  2. K. Harrison and S. Xu. Protecting Cryptographic Keys from Memory Disclosure Attacks. DSN-DCCS'07.
  3. S. Xu and K. Han. Envisioning Stealthy Botnet C&C and Graph-based Detection Metrics (Abstract). DSN'07 fast abstract track.
  4. T. Paul Parker. Safekeeping Your Keys: Keep Them Out of RAM. DSN'07 student forum track.
  5. X. Li, P. Parker, and S. Xu. Towards Quantifying the (In)Security of Networked Systems. IEEE AINA'07.
  6. P. Parker and S. Xu. Towards Understanding the (In)security of Networked Systems under Topology-directed Stealthy Attacks. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'06), pp ???-???.

Previous Publications:

  1. Lite-Gistexter: Generating Short Summaries With Minimal Resources.  V. Finley Lacatusu, P. Parker, and S.M. Harabagiu, Document Understanding Conference  (Workshop Paper), Language Computer Corporation, 2003.
  2. LCC’s WSD Systems For Senseval 3.  Adrian Novichi, Dan Moldovan, Paul Parker, Adriana Badulescu, and Bob Hauser, ACL Senseval 3 Workshop. Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
  3. Senseval 3 Logic Forms:  A System And Possible Improvements.  Altaf Mohammed, Dan Moldovan, and Paul Parker, ACL Senseval 3 Workshop. Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
  4. I/O-Oriented Applications On A Software Distributed-Shared Memory System.  Timothy Parker, Master’s Thesis, Rice University, 1999, UMI.
  5. Application Of Image Algebra To Views Of Images In Multimedia Databases.  Mujeeb Basit and Timothy Parker, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Baylor University, 1996.
Also some NLP/AI publications under auspices of ARDA program.

Link to Resume and CV

Email:  tparker at cs dot utsa dot edu