Scholars@Duke

• 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

  • JUN 29, 2016

    The Daily Mail

    New privacy app lets people see what you want them to while videoconferencing

  • JUN 28, 2016

    Video Privacy Tool Lets You Select What Others See

  • MAY 21, 2015

    Gizmag

    Researchers cut the required bandwidth for graphics-intensive game streaming

  • MAY 20, 2015

    Researchers Help Video Gamers Play in the Cloud Without Guzzling Gigabytes

  • NOV 20, 2014

    Goodbye Zoboomafoo; Black Friday Advice: The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}

  • NOV 19, 2014

    How to Avoid Regret, Debt and Heft This Holiday

  • JUL 2, 2013

    RedOrbit

    Duke researcher develops app to protect against false keyboards

  • JUN 27, 2013

    Feature Stops Apps From Stealing Phone Users' Passwords

  • JUN 26, 2013

    Stopping Apps From Stealing Phone Passwords
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  Awards & Honors

  • Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2008
• 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

  • 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

  • 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.
• 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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