Slavisa Sarafijanovic, Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL (until Aug 2009)

Since September 2008 I work on the project which focuses on securing and filtering Internet communications (including email filtering and web content filtering). For this project I got an Innogrant fund from EPFL. The project is about an innovative use of cryptographic techniques and security protocols to build a support for some major Internet applications and make them more useful, reliable, secure and easier to use for an average Internet user. Targeted applications of the technology I am developing include: email filtering, web content filtering, telephone and VOIP calls filtering, filtering in the Internet-of-the-things settings, adaptive personalized filtering on mobile devices (with some level of privacy) of the locally advertised content.

In August 2008 I obtained PhD degree from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, in the domains of networking security and communications filtering. In my PhD work I used Artificial Immune Systems approach to protect communication in computer networks, with emphasis on Routing Misbehavior Detection and Email Spam Filtering. Here is my thesis "Artificial Immune System for The Internet" (pdf) (also available from EPFL's library and Infoscience). During my PhD I was supervised by Professor Jean-Yves Le Boudec.

        

News   My PhD Research   Publications   Software   Teaching   Projects with students   Contact   Acknowledgments 

News

2008, September 1, I started the Innogrant project at EPFL.

2008, August 22, we have presented the paper "Resolving FP-TP Conflict in Digest-Based Collaborative Spam Detection by Use of Negative Selection Algorithm" at CEAS 2008, The Fifth Conference on Email and Antispam, Mountain View, California, USA, August 21-22 2008. [PDF] [Abstract-HTML]

2008, March 28, we have presented the paper "Improving Digest-Based Collaborative Spam Detection" at  MIT Spam Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, March 27-28, 2008. [PDF] [Abstract-HTML]

2007, November 10, we have presented the paper "Artificial Immune System For Collaborative Spam Filtering" at  NICSO 2007, The Second Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization, Acireale, Italy, November 8-10, 2007. [PDF] [Abstract-HTML]

2007, August, we made AntispamLab publically available. AntispamLab is a software tool for automated, realistic, and large scale (compared to the existing similar tools) testing and evaluation of email spam filters.

2007, August 3, we have presented the paper "AntispamLab – A Tool for Realistic Evaluation of Email Spam Filters" at CEAS 2007, The Fourth Conference on Email and Antispam, Mountain View, California, USA, August 2-3 2007. [PDF]  [Abstract-HTML]

Research I did during my PhD

Publications

Software

Teaching

Student projects that I propose(d)/supervise(d)

Contact

Post Address: Slavisa Sarafijanovic, EPFL-IC-LCA,  BC 260, Station 14, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
E-mail: slavisa.sarafijanovic@epfl.ch
Phone: +41 21 693 6467
Fax: +41 21 693 6610

Acknowledgments

My work is supported (in part) by the National Competence Center in Research on Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS), a center supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant number 5005-67322.

 

Web page: slavisa.sarafijanovic@epfl.ch