Cliff Zou
Professor
- Office: L3 Harris Engineering Center Room 243
- Email: changchun.zou@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-5015
BIOGRAPHY
Cliff Zou is a professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, where he coordinates the master’s programs in cybersecurity and privacy, as well as digital forensics. He also directs the UCF Alliance for Cybersecurity and is a member of the university’s Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster.
His research focuses on computer and network security, network modeling, and performance evaluation. Zou has contributed to the organization of numerous academic conferences and has served on program committees for events in his field. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has received multiple awards for his contributions to cybersecurity education and research.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering – University of Massachusetts-Amherst
RESEARCH
- Computer and network security
- Network modeling and performance evaluation
PUBLICATIONS
- Ping Wang, Sherri Sparks, Cliff C. Zou. “An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 7(2), 113-127, April-June,2010.
- Cliff C. Zou, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong. “Modeling and Simulation Study of the Propagation and Defense of Internet Email Worm,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 4(2), p.105-118, April-June 2007.
- Cliff C. Zou, Nick Duffield, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong. “Adaptive Defense Against Various Network Attacks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: High-Speed Network Security (J-SAC), 24(10), p.1877-1888, October 2006.
- Cliff C. Zou, Weibo Gong, Don Towsley, and Lixin Gao. “The Monitoring and Early Detection of Internet Worms,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(5), p.961-974, October 2005.
- Corey McCall, Branden Maynes, Cliff C. Zou, Ning Zhang. “An Automatic Medication Self-Management and Monitoring System for Independently Living Patients”,Elsevier Journal of Medical Engineering & Physics, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2013, pp. 505-514.
AWARDS
- Publications have more than 6100 citations according to Google Scholar Citation.
- Best Student Paper Award in conference ACSAC 2007.
- Received UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award, 2013.
- Undergraduate research project “Personal Medication Monitor” won the first price in the first annual UCF Inventing Entrepreneurs Innovation Competition (reported by UCF News).
- Paper “Honeypot detection in advanced botnet attacks” published in IJICS (2010) was reported by EurekAlert! News Service and The Register, respectively.
- Rootkit work (paper published in Securecomm’08) was reported by PCWorld (05/09/2008).
- Research published in NDSS’06 reported by “New Scientist Magazine”, Mar. 4, 2006 189(2541), pg. 32.
- Best Paper Award runner-up in PADS 2005.
- Best Paper Award runner-up in ICCCN 2004.
- Interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) on our Internet worm research, September 2003