Landon P. Cox
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Experimental software systems (mobile computing, and privacy and security).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Comnputer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2015
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2015
Contact Information
- Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
- LSRC D304, Durham, NC 27708
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(919) 660-6566
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http://www.cs.duke.edu/~lpcox/
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 2005
- B.S., Duke University 1999
- M.S., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1999
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Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2010 - 2015
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2012
- Recognition
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Protecting Visual Secrets with Private-Eye awarded by Google Inc. 2014 - 2017
- FitFab 4 Survivors awarded by National Institutes of Health 2011 - 2014
- TC:Small:Trustworthy Mobile Sensing awarded by National Science Foundation 2010 - 2013
- NetSE:Small:Privacy-preserving Architectures for Social Networking Services awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2013
- CAREER: Tolerating Access Control Misconfigurations awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2013
- CSR-VCM: Managing a Concurrent Opportunistic Sensor Environment with Pocket Hypervisors awarded by National Science Foundation 2007 - 2009
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Conference Papers
- Streiffer, C, Srivastava, A, Orlikowski, V, Velasco, Y, Martin, V, Raval, N, Machanavajjhala, A, and Cox, LP. "EPrivateeye: To the edge and beyond!." October 12, 2017. Full Text
- Raval, N, Machanavajjhala, A, and Cox, LP. "Protecting Visual Secrets Using Adversarial Nets." August 22, 2017. Full Text
- Stoddard, B, O Hanlon, K, Lin, B, Machanavajjhala, A, and Cox, LP. "Ayumu: Efficient lifelogging with focused tasks." December 1, 2016. Full Text
- Raval, N, Srivastava, A, Razeen, A, Lebeck, K, Machanavajjhala, A, and Cox, LP. "What you mark is what apps see." June 20, 2016. Full Text
- Razeen, A, Pistol, V, Meijer, A, and Cox, LP. "Better performance through thread-local emulation." February 23, 2016. Full Text
- Cuervo, E, Wolman, A, Cox, LP, Lebeck, K, Razeen, A, Saroiu, S, and Musuvathi, M. "Kahawai: High-quality mobile gaming using GPU offload." May 18, 2015. Full Text
- Shakimov, A, and Cox, LP. "MUTT: A watchdog for OSN applications." November 3, 2013. Full Text
- Cáceres, R, Cox, L, Lim, H, Shakimov, A, and Varshavsky, A. "Virtual Individual Servers as privacy-preserving proxies for mobile devices." August 17, 2009. Full Text
- Constandache, I, Gaonkar, S, Sayler, M, Choudhury, RR, and Cox, LP. "Energy-Efficient Localization via Personal Mobility Profiling." Springer, 2009. Full Text
- Shakimov, A, Varshavsky, A, Cox, LP, Caceres, R, and ACM, . "Privacy, Cost, and Availability Tradeoffs in Decentralized OSNs." 2009. Link to Item
- Cox, LE, Murray, CD, and Noble, BD. "Pastiche: Making backup cheap and easy." December 31, 2002. Full Text
- Noble, BD, Fleis, B, and Cox, LP. "Deferring trust in fluid replication." September 17, 2000. Full Text
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Journal Articles
- Enck, W, Gilbert, P, Han, S, Tendulkar, V, Chun, B-G, Cox, LP, Jung, J, McDaniel, P, and Sheth, AN. "TaintDroid." ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 32, no. 2 (June 1, 2014): 1-29. Full Text
- Enck, W, Gilbert, P, Chun, BG, Cox, LP, Jung, J, McDaniel, P, and Sheth, AN. "Taint droid: An information flow tracking system for real-time privacy monitoring on smartphones." Communications of the ACM 57, no. 3 (March 1, 2014): 99-106. Full Text
- Cox, LP, and Mao, ZM. "Program chairs' welcome." MobiSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (January 1, 2014).
- Cuervo, E, Wolman, A, Cox, L, Saroiu, S, Musuvathi, M, and Razeen, A. "Demo: Kahawai: High-quality mobile gaming using GPU offload." MobiSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (January 1, 2014): 345-. Full Text
- Liu, D, and Cox, LP. "VeriUI: Attested login for mobile devices." Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile 2014 (January 1, 2014). Full Text
- Raval, N, Srivastava, A, Lebeck, K, Cox, L, and Machanavajjhala, A. "MarkIt: Privacy markers for protecting visual secrets." UbiComp 2014 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (January 1, 2014): 1289-1295. Full Text
- Razeen, A, and Cox, L. "Demo: Zero interaction private messaging with ZIPR." MobiSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (January 1, 2014): 351-352. Full Text
- Cox, L, and Whitehouse, K. "Message from the Program Chairs." SenSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (January 1, 2013).
- Liu, D, Cuervo, E, Pistol, V, Scudellari, R, and Cox, LP. "ScreenPass: Secure password entry on touchscreen devices." MobiSys 2013 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (2013): 291-304. Full Text
- Cox, L, and Lamarca, A. "Message from the Chairs." HotMobile 2011: The 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (2011).
- Cox, L, and Lara, ED. "Chairs' welcome." MobiSys'11 - Compilation Proceedings of the 9th Int. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services and Co-located Workshops - 2011 Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, MCS'11 (2011): iii-.
- Cox, LP. "Truth in crowdsourcing." IEEE Security and Privacy 9, no. 5 (2011): 74-76. Full Text
- Cox, LP. "Usefulness is not trustworthiness." IEEE Internet Computing 15, no. 3 (2011): 79-80. Full Text
- Cuervo, E, Gilbert, P, Wu, B, and Cox, LP. "CrowdLab: An architecture for volunteer mobile testbeds." 2011 3rd International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2011 (2011). Full Text
- Gilbert, P, Chun, B-G, Cox, LP, and Jung, J. "Vision: Automated security validation of mobile apps at app markets." MobiSys'11 - Compilation Proceedings of the 9th Int. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services and Co-located Workshops - 2011 Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, MCS'11 (2011): 21-25. Full Text
- Gilbert, P, Jung, J, Lee, K, Qin, H, Sharkey, D, Sheth, A, and Cox, LP. "YouProve: Authenticity and fidelity in mobile sensing." SenSys 2011 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (2011): 176-189. Full Text
- Liu, D, Shakimov, A, Cáceres, R, Varshavsky, A, and Cox, LP. "Confidant: Protecting OSN data without locking it up." Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 7049 LNCS (2011): 61-80. Full Text
- Shakimov, A, Lim, H, Cáceres, R, Cox, LP, Li, K, Liu, D, and Varshavsky, A. "Vis-à-Vis: Privacy-preserving online social networking via Virtual Individual Servers." 2011 3rd International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2011 (2011). Full Text
- Shakimov, A, and Cox, LP. "Privacy challenges in the online social networking era." Proceedings of the 8th Middleware Doctoral Symposium, MDS'11 of the 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (2011). Full Text
- Soroush, H, Gilbert, P, Banerjee, N, Levine, B, Corner, M, and Cox, L. "Spider: Improving mobile networking with concurrent Wi-Fi connections." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 Conference, SIGCOMM'11 (2011): 402-403. Full Text
- Soroush, H, Gilbert, P, Banerjee, N, Levine, BN, Corner, M, and Cox, L. "Concurrent Wi-Fi for mobile users: Analysis and measurements." Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT'11 (2011). Full Text
- Cox, L, and Wolman, A. "MobiHeld'10 chairs' welcome." Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications on Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld '10, Co-located with SIGCOMM 2010 (2010): iii-.
- Gilbert, P, Cox, LP, Jung, J, and Wetherall, D. "Toward trustworthy mobile sensing." HotMobile 2010: The 11th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (2010): 31-36. Full Text
- Constandache, I, Gaonkar, S, Sayler, M, Choudhury, RR, and Cox, L. "EnLoc: Energy-efficient localization for mobile phones." Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM (2009): 2716-2720. Full Text
- Deng, L, and Cox, LP. "Live compare: grocery bargain hunting through participatory sensing." Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile'09 (2009). Full Text
- Gilbert, P, Cuervo, E, and Cox, LP. "Experimenting in mobile social contexts using JellyNets." Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile'09 (2009). Full Text
- Manweiler, J, Scudellari, R, Cancio, Z, and Cox, LP. "We saw each other on the subway: secure, anonymous proximity-based missed connections." Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HotMobile'09 (2009). Full Text
- Manweiler, J, Scudellari, R, and Cox, LP. "SMILE: Encounter-based trust for mobile social services." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2009): 246-255. Full Text
- Bower, FA, Sorin, DJ, and Cox, LP. "The impact of dynamically heterogeneous multicore processors on thread scheduling." IEEE Micro 28, no. 3 (2008): 17-25. Full Text
- Cox, LP, Dalton, A, and Marupadi, V. "SmokeScreen: Flexible privacy controls for presence-sharing." MobiSys'07: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (2007): 233-245. Full Text
- Cox, LP, and Chen, PM. "Pocket hypervisors: Opportunities and challenges." Proceedings - 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, HOTMOBILE 2007 (2007): 46-50. Full Text
- Cox, LP, Castro, M, and Rowstron, A. "POS: A practical order statistics service for wireless sensor networks." Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2006 (2006). Full Text
- Yumerefendi, AR, and Cox, LP. "LLSS: Toward system support for plugging privacy leaks." Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 2005 (December 1, 2005). Full Text
- Cox, LP, and Noble, BD. "Samsara: Honor among thieves in peer-to-peer storage." Operating Systems Review (ACM) 37, no. 5 (2003): 120-132.
- Schmajuk, NA, Cox, L, and Gray, JA. "Nucleus accumbens, entorhinal cortex and latent inhibition: a neural network model." Behav Brain Res 118, no. 2 (January 29, 2001): 123-141. Link to Item
- Cox, LP, and Noble, BD. "Fast reconciliations in fluid replication." Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (2001): 449-458.
- Schmajuk, NA, Christiansen, B, and Cox, L. "Haloperidol reinstates latent inhibition impaired by hippocampal lesions: data and theory." Behav Neurosci 114, no. 4 (August 2000): 659-670. Link to Item
- Astrachan, O, Berry, G, Cox, L, and Mitchener, G. "Design patterns: An essential component of CS curricula." Poceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE (1998): 153-160.
- Astrachan, O, Berry, G, Cox, L, and Mitchener, G. "Design patterns: An essential component of CS curricula." SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) 30, no. 1 (1998): 153-160.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- COMPSCI 290: Topics in Computer Science 2018
- COMPSCI 391: Independent Study 2018
- COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study 2018
- COMPSCI 510: Operating Systems 2018
- COMPSCI 791: Internship 2018
- COMPSCI 310: Introduction to Operating Systems 2017
- COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study 2017
- COMPSCI 701S: Introduction for Graduate Students in Computer Science 2017
- ECE 353: Introduction to Operating Systems 2017
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