Important Updates:
- 06/2010: I finished my internship at MS Research, during which I improved the security of Hyper-V as a cloud platform.
- 01/2010: I got the Best Presentation Award (and a nice trophy) for my presentation on our MAVMM in the CS track at the 7th VEF Annual conference (2010).
- 08/2009: I got my first 1st author paper accepted into ACSAC 2009. It is a work on building a customized virtual machine for malware analysis. Many thanks to my hard working teammates: Nabil Schear, HeeDong Jung, Apeksha Godiyal, Hai Nguyen, and of course Sam. Please read our paper, or visit our project webpage for more information.
- 05/2009: I switched to Prof. Sam King's group. Sam is working on several topics that I am interested in, including virtualization and browser security.
- 03/2009: I have passed the System & Networking Qualification exam to become a PhD candidate at UIUC CS Department. I have gathered my experience on how to deal with this exam here, and a list of sample qual questions here.
- 09/2008: I got my first conference paper accepted into HICSS 2009 (more)
Welcome to my personal homepage!
My name is Anh Nguyen. I am a third year grad student (as of Aug 2009) at the Computer Science Department - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. I am doing research (or at least trying to do research) on Information Security. I was a member of Illinois Security Lab from Aug 2007 to May 2009. My current adviser is Prof. Sam King. I have an office in 4301 Siebel Center, one of the newest and modernest buildings at UIUC (from what I heard).
I am a Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) fellow, and I served as a member of Vietnam Education Fellows and Scholars Association's (VEFFA) Board of Representative from Jan 2008 to Jan 2010.
Before coming to Illinois, I finished my undergrad at Hanoi University of Technology - Faculty of Information Technology in 2006. I then worked full time as Deputy Manager - AntiVirus Dept - Bach Khoa Internetwork Center until June, 2007. I came to Urbana Champaign in August, 2007 to pursue my graduate study at UIUC. Frankly, I don't really like going to school but for some reasons I have been doing it for nearly 20 years....
I like listening to music, taking good pictures, hiking, playing volleyball & soccer. I am not a fan of any particular artist, I often care about the songs themselves more than about who sing them. I have a Nikon D90 and have taken quite a number of pictures. I climbed the highest mountain of South East Asia (Fansipan in Sapa, Vietnam) back in 2007. It was a two days trip with a lot of fun. My feet must have doubled in size after that trip (j/k). I am not a professional soccer player, but a pretty decent one. I play goal keeper.
This new website is an attempt to replace my old, boring, and static html homepage. Hopefully, you will be able to use it to achieve either one (or any combination) of the following:
- get to know me better: I am a simple person, but even a simple person is very complicated. If you are working with me, or want to work with me then we should get to know each others' values and working methodology (you might want to check out my Favourite Quotes). I truly believe that the job would be much easier when you know and trust your partners.
- relax: I will occasionally write something funny, or put some relaxing stuffs to my Funny & Relax section. People say I have a good sense of humor, and I sometimes believe that they are right :D
- and maybe, just maybe, learn something new: I might write about my experience doing research, preparing for exams, dealing with raw foods..., and many other things. I am a pretty open person and I always feel happy sharing my knowledge with those who need it. I usually write down any valuable experiences that I have as soon as they take place, because otherwise I will forget them very very soon. Check out my Recommended Resources
If you have any comments, either on the content, or the look of this site, or anything related to me... please feel free to contact me by writing your comments here.
Thanks for visiting, and have a nice day!
Anh
