Shlomo Hershkop is currently an associate research scientist with the IDS Lab at Columbia University. From 2005-2007 he was on the teaching staff as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Columbia University's Computer Science Department. He Received his B.A from Yeshiva University ('99), Masters ('01)and PhD ('06) from Columbia University.

His Adviser was Prof Salvatore (Sal) Stolfo . His current research interests include
computer security problems involving data mining and machine learning particularly in network flows and email analysis. See Research for more details.
His thesis was titled: "Behavior-based Email Analysis with Application to Spam Detection"

He has headed the Columbia Intrusion Detection Project IDS
and is a member of the Columbia Data Mining Lab.

His current all time consuming project is working on the Insider Project
which is a large scale research project on insdier security.

Spent a lot of time building and extending
the Email Mining Toolkit (EMT)
which was the basis for a major part in his PhD research.

Misc:

Louis Morin Fellowship 2002, 2003, 2004

Talk at Spam conference Jan 2004, MIT

Made it to the Front Cover of Network World
for the article click here

Insider Security Book