Michael Rausch

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is William H. Sanders , and I am a member of the PERFORM group.

I am interested in models and modeling formalisms that help system architects make better design decisions regarding system security. I am especially interested in modeling the interaction between the cyber system and the various human players — adversaries, defenders/operators, and users.


You can reach me via email at mjrausc2@illinois.edu.

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Expected May 2020
MS Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign December 2016
BA Computer Science, Mathematics, History, Ripon College May 2014
Research Results

Modeling Humans: A General Agent Model for the Evaluation of Security..
M. Rausch, A. Fawaz, K. Keefe, and W. H. Sanders.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2018), Beijing, China, Sept. 4-7, 2018 (A. McIver and A. Horvath, Eds.), pp. 373-388. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11024. Cham: Springer, 2018.

Automatically Generating Security Models from System Models to Aid in the Evaluation of AMI Deployment Options.
M. Rausch, K. Keefe, B. Feddersen, and W. H. Sanders.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), Lucca, Italy, October 9-13, 2017, to appear.

REMAX: Reachability-Maximizing P2P Detection of Erroneous Readings in Wireless Sensor Networks.
V. Badrinath Krishna, M. Rausch, B. E. Ujcich, I. Gupta, and W. H. Sanders.
Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Denver, Colorado, June 26-29, 2017.

Determining Cost-Effective Intrusion Detection Approaches for an Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment Using ADVISE.
M. Rausch.
Master's Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016.

A Comparison of Different Intrusion Detection Approaches in an Advanced Metering Infrastructure Network Using ADVISE.
M. Rausch, B. Feddersen, K. Keefe, and W. H. Sanders.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2016), Quebec City, Canada, August 23-25, 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 9826, Springer, pp. 279-294. [The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43425-4_19]

IRMA via SDN: Intrusion Response and Monitoring Appliance via Software-Defined Networking.
B. Ujcich, M. Rausch, K. Nahrstedt, and W.H. Sanders.
UIUC Coordinated Science Laboratory Working Paper, October 14th, 2015.

Demonstrating a Simple Device Fingerprinting System.
M. Rausch, A. Bakke, S. Patt, B. Wegner, and D. Scott.
Proceedings of the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium, Verona, Wisconsin, April 25-26, 2014.

Virtual CHILL (VCHILL): Bringing Radar to Remote Users.
J. Hardin, M. Rausch, and V. Chandrasekar.
Presented at the American Meteorological Society (AMS 2013), Austin, Texas, January 7th, 2013.