Position:
Graduate Coordinator
Professorial Status:
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office:
3366 TMCB
Office Phone:
(801) 422-3722
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Contact:
About Kent Seamons
Dr. Seamons is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University and is the Director of the Internet Security Research Lab. Prior to joining the faculty at BYU, Dr. Seamons was the Principal Investigator on several DARPA-sponsored research projects at the IBM Transarc Lab in Pittsburgh, PA. He was a co-inventor of two patent applications filed in 21 countries by IBM in the area of trust negotiation. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he conducted research in parallel I/O.Research Interests
Dr. Seamons' current research is the creation of convenient and secure authentication techniques in open systems. His research interests are in trust and privacy in open systems, usable security, and trust negotiation. Dr. Seamons has over 45 research publications in the areas of trust and security, parallel I/O, distributed systems, and information retrieval.
Research Lab:
| Course | Title | Section | Location | Time | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CS 465 | Computer Security | 1 | 373 MARB | 3:00-3:50p MWF | http://cs465.cs.byu.edu/ |
| CS 598R | Special Projects | 1 | TBA | TBA | |
| CS 598R | Special Projects | 2 | TBA | TBA |