Computer Science Department
Columbia University
450 Computer Science Building
New York, New York 10027
wenke@cs.columbia.edu
Office: (212) 939-7078
Home: (212) 666-7178
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Network Security, Distributed Data Mining, and Adaptive Systems
I am interested in building adaptive network
intrusion detection systems, and developing support systems for
intelligent user interfaces. I am interested in developing data mining
algorithms and systems that can efficiently compute accurate and
concise behavior models from large amounts of system and user activity
data.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science, Columbia University 1994-1999
Ph.D. Thesis: A Data Mining Framework for Constructing Features and Models for Intrusion Detection Systems
Advisor: Professor Salvatore J. Stolfo
M.S. Computer Science, The City College of New York
1988-1990
B.S. Computer Science, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou,
China 1984-1988
AWARDS and HONORS
Best Paper Award, Applied Research Category, the 5th ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(KDD '99 )
Honorable mention (runner-up) for Best Paper Award,
Applied Research Category, the 4th International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '98 )
Honorable mention (runner-up) for Best Paper Award,
Applied Research Category, the 3rd International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '97 )
PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Kui Mok
to appear in Journal Artificial Intelligence Review
, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
(Extended from our KDD' 98 paper)
Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Kui Mok
to appear in Data Retrieval and Data Mining ,
T. Y. Lin and N. Cercone (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999
Wenke Lee and Naser Barghouti
to appear in Object-Oriented Applications Frameworks
, M. Fayad, D. Schmidt, and R. Johnson (eds), John Wiley & Sons, 1999
PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCES
(Best Paper Award in Applied Research Category)
Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Kui Mok
to appear in the 5th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD '99), San Diego,
CA, August, 1999
Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Kui Mok
to appear in the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
, Oakland, CA, May 1999
(Honorable mention (runner-up) for Best Paper Award in Applied Research
Category)
Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Kui Mok
In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '98), New York, NY,
August 1998
Wenke Lee and Sal Stolfo
In Proceedings of the Seventh USENIX Security Symposium (SECURITY '98), San
Antonio, TX, January 1998
Sal Stolfo, Andreas Prodromidis, Shelley Tselepis, Wenke Lee, Dave Fan, and Phil
Chan
(Honorable mention (runner-up) for Best Paper Award in Applied Research
Category)
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '97), Newport Beach,
CA, August 1997
Naser S. Barghouti, John Mocenigo, and Wenke Lee
Fifth Annual Symposium on Graph Drawing (Graph Drawing '97),
Rome, Italy, September 1997
Wenke Lee, Gail Kaiser, Paul Clayton, and Eric Sherman
In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association
Annual Fall Symposium, Washington DC, October 1996
PAPERS IN REFEREED WORKSHOPS
Wenke Lee, Chris Park, and Sal Stolfo
to appear in the 1st USENIX Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring, April 1999
Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Phil Chan
AAAI Workshop: AI Approaches to Fraud Detection and Risk Management, July 1997
Sal Stolfo, Dave Fan, Wenke Lee, Andreas Prodromidis, and Phil Chan
AAAI Workshop: AI Approaches to Fraud Detection and Risk Management, July 1997
Gail Kaiser and Wenke Lee
NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process
Automation, May 1996
Wenke Lee
In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop in GIS,
Beijing, China, August 1993
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Wenke Lee and Gail Kaiser
Technical Report TR CUCS-012-95
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University 1996-present
Advisor: Professor Salvatore J. Stolfo.
Member of the DARPA and NSF sponsored JAM (Java Agents for Meta-Learning)
project. Participated in the design of the JAM architecture. Implemented
classifier display and analysis modules. Conducted experiments in building
credit card fraud detection models using JAM.
Developed audit data pre-processing programs for tcpdump and
BSM data. Implemented and extended several data mining
algorithms, including association rules and frequent episodes, for
mining audit data to build network intrusion detection
models. Developed a translator to automatically construct NFR (Network
Flight Recorder) "N-Code filters" for real-time intrusion detection
from the learned rules. Participated in the 1998 DARPA Intrusion
Detection Evaluation program. The results showed that our system was
one of the best intrusion detection systems among those submitted to
the evaluation.
Summer Research Staff Member, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Summer 1997
Mentors: Dr. Jeff Kephart and Dr. Jakka Sairamesh.
Research in network-based information economy.
Implemented a prototype multi-agent system to simulate the market
dynamics of information brokering and filtering.
Summer Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs - Research
Summer 1996
Mentor: Dr. Naser S. Barghouti.
Research in distributed data visualization environments.
Designed and implemented Jadve , a Java-based distributed graph
drawing and viewing system. Evaluated the advantages of using Java to
develop distributed objected-oriented systems.
Graduate Research Assistant, Columbia University 1994-1996
Advisor: Professor Gail E. Kaiser.
Research in software development environments
and workflow systems. Developed several modules of Oz, a collaborative
workflow management system. Integrated Oz with the Object Management
System component of PCTE (Portable Common Tools Environment). Applied
Oz technologies to model and automate hospital patient "care plans".
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, Columbia University
Summer 1998
Taught Data Structures and Algorithms , a
4-point required course for the Computer Science major. Prepared lecture
notes, assignments, and exams.
Teaching Assistant, Columbia University 1995-1996
Courses: Introduction to Software Engineering,
Artificial Intelligence.
Lectured "software tools" sessions, prepared
assignments and solutions, directed student project teams.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Citicorp Technology Office 1996 (part-time)
Member of a consulting team. Developed a Java-based
Intelligent E-Commerce System (U.S. Patent Number: 5920848).
Senior Software Engineer, Intergraph Corporation 1990-1994
(full-time)
Member of the Mapping Sciences software
development team. Designed and implemented a modular GIS (Geographical
Information System) environment, and a client/server spatial database
management system, for both Unix and Windows NT platforms.
PATENTS
"Method and System for Using Intelligent Agents for Financial
Transactions, Services, Accounting, and Advice" , Dan Schutzer, Will
Foster, Huanrui Hu, Wenke Lee, Sal Stolfo, and Wei Fan (U.S. Patent
Number: 5920848).
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
M.S. Admissions Committee 1998-present
Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Pre-tester 1995-1997
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for Addison-Wesley, and the Springer-Verlag Knowledge and
Information Systems Journal.
REFERENCES
Prof. Salvatore J. Stolfo
Computer Science Department
Columbia University
450 Computer Science Building
New York, New York 10027
(212) 939-7080
sal@cs.columbia.edu
Prof. Alexander Tuzhilin
Information Systems Department
Stern School of Business
New York University
44 West 4th Street,
New York, New York 10012
(212) 998-0832
atuzhili@stern.nyu.edu
Prof. Henning G. Schulzrinne
Computer Science Department
Columbia University
450 Computer Science Building
New York, New York 10027
(212) 939-7042
hgs@cs.columbia.edu
Prof. Yechiam Yemini
Computer Science Department
Columbia University
450 Computer Science Building
New York, New York 10027
(212) 939-7123
yemini@cs.columbia.edu
Dr. Naser S. Barghouti
Bear Stearns & Co.
575 Lexington Ave.
New York, New York 10022
(212) 272-2624
naser@bear.com