Brent ByungHoon Kang Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Information Technology and Center for Secure Information Systems The Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030 bkang5ATgmu.edu, O:   703-993-3931 or 703-993-3565 (AIT office) or 703-993- Office: CSIS lab in Research I and 5400 Nguyen Engineering Building

Brent Hoon Kang received his Ph.D in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley.  His Ph.D. research efforts in distributed systems and services were supported by the Berkeley Digital Library project and the OceanStore project.  Prior to Berkeley, he received his M.S in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park with a focus in computer network and his B.S in Computer Science and Statistics from Seoul National University with 1^st place distinction among computer science major. He has also worked on building a collaboration system for scientific data management at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and worked as a software engineer at QuarkXpress.

GRA positions Available

One or two GRA positions are available in the areas of: malware security, distributed systems security, computer network security, web security. Please send email to Dr. Kang (bkang5@gmu.edu) with your resume, summary of major work experience or class project, and a sample of your writing (paper, report).

Research

Research on Infrastructure Systems and Security:

Recent Publications:

• DoubleGuard: Detecting Intrusions In Multi-tier Web Applications, M. Le, A. Stavrou, B. Kang, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2011, Volume 99.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6081881(10.1109/TDSC.2011.59)

• Entropy-Based Measurement of IP Address Inflation in the Waledac Botnet, R. Weaver, C. Nunnery, G. Singaraju, and B. Kang, CERT FloCon 2011

http://www.cert.org/flocon/2011/proceedings.html

• Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Exploring the Idiosyncrasies of Botmaster Systems in a Multi-Tier Botnet Infrastructure, C. Nunnery, G. Sinclair, B. Kang, 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET), 2010.
• The Waledac Protocol: The How and Why, G. Sinclair, C. Nunnery, B. Kang, Proceeding of 4th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (IEEE Malware), 2009. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
• Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet, Brent ByungHoon Kang, Eric Chan-Tin, Christopher P. Lee, James Tyra, Hun Jeong Kang, Chris Nunnery, Zachariah Wadler, Greg Sinclair, Nicholas Hopper, David Dagon, and Yongdae Kim, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer & Communication Security (ASIACCS 2009) Presentation slides can be found here.
• Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities, Gautam Singaraju, Jeffery Moss, and Brent Kang, Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam, CEAS 2008.
• Concord: A Secure Mobile Data Authorization Framework for Regulatory Compliance, Gautam Singaraju, and Brent Kang, USENIX 22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA-2008), November, 2008, San Deigo-CA, USA.
• Kang has received TIAA_CREF Biggs Faculty Fellowship in April 2007. With this fellowship, Kang worked on a Premise-Aware Access Framework for Regulation Compliance of Financial Organizations.
• RepuScore: Collaborative Reputation Management Framework for Email Infrastructure, G. Singaraju and B. Kang, USENIX 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA-2007), November, 2007, Dallas, USA
• RepuScore has been deployed in a number of organization, please check out our recent SpamAssassin
  Plug-in and consider joining this effort!
• Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Overview and Case Study, J. Grizzard, V. Sharma, C. Nunnery, B. Kang, and D. Dagon, USENIX HOTBOTS 07 (First Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets ( HTML | PDF )
• This paper is also featured in pcworld.com, eweek.com, CSO online, techworld.com and Symantec news.

• When you search for "peer to peer botnet" on search engine such as google, our HOTBOT 07 paper appears at the top.

1. http://www.google.com/search?q=peer%20to%20peer%20botnet.

• Google Scholar shows 212 citations on October 2011, since its publication on April 2007

2. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Peer-to-peer+botnets

• The HOTBOT07 paper was also cited in the CRS Report for Congress "Botnets, Cybercrime, and Cyberterrorism: Vulnerabilities and Policy Issues for Congress" http://opencrs.com/document/RL32114/2008-01-29/

• Privilege Messaging: An Authorization Framework over Email Infrastructure, B. Kang, G. Singaraju, and S. Jain, USENIX 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA-2006), December, 2006, Washington-DC, USA
• Please visit http://isr.uncc.edu/pmessaging for latest updates.
• RegColl: Centralized Registry Framework for Infrastructure System Management, B. Kang, V. Sharma, and P. Thanki, USENIX 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA-2005), December, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
• Hash History Approach for Reconciling Mutual Inconsistency, B. Kang, R. Wilensky, and J. Kubiatowicz, Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2003), May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
• Toward a Model of Self-administering Data, B. Kang and R. Wilensky, Proceedings of the first ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2001), June 24-28, 2001, Roanoke, VA, USA
• Network Support for Mobile Multimedia using a Self-adaptive Distributed Proxy, Z. Mao, H. So, B. Kang, and R. Katz, Proceedings of 11th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV-2001), June 25-26, 2001, Port Jefferson, New York, USA
• Interactive simulation tools for information assurance education, H. Yu, K. Williams, J. Xu, X. Yuan, B. Chu, B. Kang, T. Kombol, Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Education in Information Security (ACEIS), 2009 14. 
• Unified Table Approach for Typographic Rendering, B. Kang, Proceedings of the Electronic Publishing (EP'98), Raster Imaging and Digital Typography (RIDT'98), Eds. Roger D. Hersch, Jacques Andre, Heather Brown, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag, St. Malo, France, 1998

Book Chapter: (Refereed)

"Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Botnet Architectures," B. Kang and C. Nunnery, Book Chapter: "Advances in Information & Intelligent Systems", 2009 Springer Studies in Computational Intelligence, SCI 251, pp. 251–264. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

"Spam Detection Using Network-Level Characteristics," B. Kang and G. Singaraju, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition, Springer 2011

"Unpacking Malware," B. Kang and G. Sinclair, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition, Springer 2011

"DNS-Based Botnet Detection," B. Kang and M. Lim, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition, Springer 2011

"Dynamic Analysis Of Malware," A. Srivastava and B. Kang, Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, 2nd Edition, Springer 2011

Previous Projects at Berkeley:

• Ph.D. dissertation S2D2: A Framework for Scalable and Secure Optimistic Replication, in TechReport UCB//CSD-04-1351.
• Committee: Robert Wilensky (Chair), John Kubiatowicz, Eric Brewer, and John Chuang
• Qualification Exam Area: Operating Systems (with Distributed Systems and Security)
• Kang worked on Summary Hash History ("SHH") as part of his dissertation research at the University of California at Berkeley. SHH is a secure decentralized update tracking mechanism that was designed by him to figure out the exact sets of updates to be exchanged during pair-wise data synchronization in a tamper-proof manner. Kang's dissertation research in large-scale distributed data synchronization and replication has been expanded into designing a secure synchronization protocol for WinFS, a next generation Windows File Systems. In collaboration with Microsoft Research, this work will potentially impact the data replication mechanism in Active Directory and the shared folder replication in Windows servers in the next release of Windows File Systems. This dissertation work has been published in the Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, "Hash History Approach for Reconciling Mutual Inconsistency,"
• Digital Library Project: Re-inventing Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use
• OceanStore Project: Providing Global-Scale Persistent Data

Grants and Awards: (Total award amount ~3.4 million: ~1million as PI, ~2.4 million as co-PI.)

1. IARPA, Athena Project, as co-PI with Anup Ghosh (PI), Angelos Stavrou (co-PI), Total $957,795, 12/01/2009 - 05/31/2014, Project lead on "Understanding Future Malware Capabilities".
2. DOD Army Research Office, A Laboratory for Cyber Situation Awareness Using Heterogeneous Virtual Machine Replication, as co-PI with Sushil Jajodia (PI), Kun Sun (co-PI) Total $199,380, 10/1/2011 - 9/30/2012.
3. ETRI/NSRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) – Profiling Malicious Domain Behavior from Top-Level-Domain Data, PI (100%), 9/2010 – 6/2011, Awarded, $65,000.
4. NSF CNS 0855067 Spam Processing, Archiving, and Monitoring Community Facility (SPAM Commons), PI (100%), $120,000.00, 9/1/2009 - 8/31/2012,
• The Spam Commons project is important in that it has the potential to become the standard measurement framework for testing and measuring anti-spam/malware defense mechanisms.
• "The impact of SPAM Commons data sets on experimental spam research may be similar to the impact of large corpora in disciplines such as speech/image recognition and natural language processing, which achieved a level of scientific result reproducibility and comparativeness after the use of such corpora became standard requirements." "The research components of Spam Commons project include the isolation of Protected Partition to address the concerns of privacy, automatic distinction of spam from legitimate documents with certainty (--which remains an open research question in email, web, and other media--), and the streaming of near-real-time spam data which requires new experimentation frameworks beyond simple provision of static data set."
• From panel reviews: "The PIs propose to construct and develop a shared infrastructure to support the collection and maintenance of realistic, large scale spam data sets, referred as SPAM Commons." "This proposal is in an area of SPAM detection and prevention, a very important problem for web and email users. People face spam on an everyday basis, and clearly this is a problem of much relevance to society." "This proposal will enable spam defense research in multiple areas, with the PI doing active contributions in the area."
5. NSF DUE 0920179 Hands-on exercises on DETER testbed for security education, PI (100%), $98,627.00, 9/15/2009 - 9/14/2011,
• From the NSF panel reviews:"All PIs have a deep and solid background in security-related research, which would greatly benefit the execution of this proposal. They have participated in several successful NSF-, DHS-, and DARPA-funded proposals." "Topics included that will be developed by PIs are: confidentiality, intrusion/exploits, spoofing, denial-of-service (DoS), worms, botnets, routing security, DNS Security, and IT defense." "The project will provide exemplary materials for the entire DETER testbed community. As such it has the potential to enable transformative change in the area of network security. ...The impact of this project can be far reaching." "The exercises will be based on the DETER testbed, which specializes in supporting security. The DETER testbed is a public facility for medium-scale repeatable experiments in computer security. Built using Utah's Emulab software, the DETER testbed has been configured and extended to provide effective containment of a variety of computer security experiments, including defense against attacks such as DDoS, worms, viruses, and other malware, as well as attacks on the routing infrastructure."
• "The exercises proposed in Table 1 cover, in my view, the entire breadth of what students need to learn to about network security given today's network protocols and architectures. Dr. Kang's exercises, which put network security in the context of business scenarios, create a particularly realistic setup students are likely to encounter after graduation."
6. NSF DUE 0723808 Focused Faculty Development Workshop on Cyber Games and Interactive Simulations, B. Kang (Lead-PI), B. Chu, G. Ahn, with NC A&T A. Yu, K. Williams, X. Xu, D. Yuan. Awarded, 9/2007 - 9/2010, Total $472,993 (UNCC $246,000, NC A&T SU $226,993),
• http://www.sis.uncc.edu/cybergames/
• As lead-PI, Kang led a team of students and faculty members to develop hands-on exercise labs to be disseminated during a week-long faculty development workshop. The main exercises were based on the hands-on exercises that Kang developed for his new class on IT Infrastructure Design and Implementation. ("Cyber Defense Games"). The hands-on exercises labs include various network security exploits and defense techniques: OS hardening, SNMP enumeration, anti-spam filter configuration, ARP poisoning, wireless cracking, and firewall configuration. This grant also supported Kang and his students in conducting research in IT systems security such as anti-spam and malware, and the research prototypes and results were used to make the exercises more engaging and challenging. For example, in addition to the standard spam filter set up, the students were given the opportunity to use botnet enumeration technology to block spam emails coming from bots, or try out the RepuScore mechanism to determine the trustworthiness of the given email sender ID.  From NSF panel reviewers: "The panel sees this proposal as creative and innovative. It has quite a few merits. ... The related work is impressive. ... The emphasis on lab design is practical and well justified. The format of collaboration is just right." 
7. NSF DUE 0830624 Carolina Cyber Defense Scholarship, B. Chu (PI), B. Kang (Co-PI), X. Wu, G. Ahn, and T. Holt, 9/2008 - 9/2012, Awarded, $1,194,140.
• As co-PI, Kang led and advised the research projects for the students with cyber defense scholarships (SFS).
8. ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) - Case Studies on Botnet Infection Assessment, PI (100%), 8/2009 - 6/2010, Awarded, $60,000.
9. KISA (Korea Information Security Agency) - A000488301, Detecting, Monitoring and Attacking Peer to Peer Botnets, PI (100%), 8/2008 - 2/2009, Awarded, $15,000. KISA is a government agency that aims to establish a safe and reliable information society through the development and support of information security related technology. (Call For Proposal was issued on www.kisa.or.kr, peer-reviewed and evaluated.)
10. TIAA-CREF John H. Biggs Faculty Fellowship, $7,000 + ($3,080 UNCC overhead matching), PI (100%), Awarded, 2007. Peer-reviewed.
11. UNCC Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte, ($6,000), PI (100%), 2005. Awarded, Peer-reviewed. Other Grants and Supports:
12. Verisign (iDefense) grant, 2008- current, $20,000 + 1 Ph.D Support. B. Kang.
13. iDefense supported PI's research by providing 1Ph.D student support and $20,000.
14. Bank of America IT Security, Plausible Scenarios of Catastrophic Cyber Events Project, Project-lead. (Participants: J. Dominick, W. Wang, Y. Wang, and B. Chu) 8/2008 - 12/2008, $40,000 
15. Honeynet (Malware) Research Project, Bank of America, ($35,000), Co-PI, 2005-2007
16. IntePoint Junior Faculty Fellowship, IntePoint Inc., ($12,500), PI (100%), 2005-2006
17. Support-Intelligence, Co-lo server access, 2008, B. Kang.
18. IBM, Co-lo server access, 2009, B. Kang.

Teaching and Mentoring

Education of Cyber Defender and Systems Security Architect:

• Since summer 2010, Kang has been leading the implementation of core courses in the Cyber Security M.S. program at GMU. He has created two new required courses, titled "Systems Security for Federal IT" and "Cyber Incident Handling and Response".
• Kang has been working on creating a SOC (Secure Operation Center) testbed, where students work with a set of SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) analysis tools (e.g., ArcSight) to learn how to detect and prevent security attacks hidden in a real collection of network and system logs.

• Kang has created an innovative hands-on IA (Information Assurance) education program on IT security administration. Kang has created a series of new courses on IT Infrastructure Design and Implementation.
  Topics include: network systems design for cyber defense, distributed systems principle, IT infrastructure design for compliance, systems recovery, malware analysis and defense, and secure email architecture.
• Kang developed the Hands-on IT Design Exercise for Cyber Defense as main class components, including a series of highly interactive exercises in which students are asked to build IT network infrastructures and services while managing and defending against realistic cyber attacks. Students design, build, and maintain IT network infrastructure systems and services, including domain name systems, web servers, email services, network file systems and directory services. At the same time, students are required to defend their infrastructure services against pseudo network attacks conducted by class instructors and volunteer security professionals.
• 19 faculty members from across states are coming to our VASA/Infrastructure Lab to participate in the Faculty Development Workshop on Cyber Games and Interactive Simulation June 2009 and June 2008. NSF supports our research group to disseminate the use of CyberGames and Interactive Simulations in IA (Information Assurance) educations. Prof. Kang is the lead PI for this collaborative project with NC A&T a HBCU in the region. The workshop examined the use of cyber games and interactive simulations in IA education, exploring network security exploits and defense techniques. The feedback from the faculty members who took part were extremely positive; all quoted plans to incorporate the material into their IA curriculum.
• Kang was nominated for the Bank of America Award for Teaching and Excellence (2008). The memo from the Dean's office stated " ... being nominated by your peers and/or students for such a prestigious award brings a wonderful recognition to the College of Computing and Informatics ..."
• Kang has led the effort in CCDC (Collegial Cyber Defense Competition) with the instructor Mr. Kombol in the Dept. Two of the students that Kang advises won the first place at the National CCDC competition, held at San Antonio and sponsored by DHS ARPA, 2006. Also, in 2009, this team won 1st place in Regional CCDC Competition, March 2009. CCDC competition focuses on network systems administration and defenses. Kang has served as a faculty advisor for UNC Charlotte. Most of the team members were also advised by Kang through research projects.

Classes and Students:

• Kang's dedication to teaching has been recognized with overall high ratings by students' evaluations, notably receiving the highest score in the category: "Instructor shows enthusiasm in lecture" in all classes that he has taught. Class evaluations by senior faculty members also reported, "Kang is confident, knowledgeable, organized, and very approachable" and "the hands-on labs are an exciting part of the course."
• Kang has been actively advising and mentoring students from the NSF Cyber Defender Scholarship program.
• Kang has graduated over 11 Masters students, they are currently employed at DoD, DoE, NSA, US Army CERDEC, Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of America, TIAA-CREF, and Vanguard Network Application Group.

• Kang has developed classes for Infrastructure Systems Architect. An infrastructure systems architect is defined as someone who is capable of planning the capacity of the infrastructure system and architecting the systems services and components to meet the requirements from the business, policy, organization, and the security aspect. These IS Architects should also be capable of designing the systems with network security defense and recovery planning in mind.
• Recently, he has developed a new undergraduate course: Introduction to IT Infrastructure Systems with the aim of relaying the theory, principles and practice of Infrastructure Systems Security Architects. Course topics include networked information systems design, distributed systems principles, IT infrastructure design for regulation compliance, file systems, and large-scale messaging architecture. Kang also enhanced the previous System Integration course by adding a strong research emphasis on distributed networked systems.

• Classes Being Developed and Taught at GMU:
1. Systems Security for Federal IT (Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011)

Sys Security for Federal IT - 16915 - AIT 690 - 002

2. Incident Response and Handling (Spring 2011, Fall 2011)

Cyber Incident Handling/Respns - 16917 - AIT 690 - 004

• Classes Taught at UNCC:

1. ITIS 3100 IT Infrastructure Systems Design and Implementation (Spring/Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Spring/Fall 2008, Spring 2009 (In 2009, Kang taught two sessions), Spring 2010 (two sessions)

2. ITIS 2110 IT Infrastructure Systems and Practice I (Spring 2010)   ITIS 3110 IT Infrastructure Systems and Practice II (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
3. ITIS 6010 Topics on IT Systems Research (Fall 2007)
4. ITIS 6177/8177 Systems Integration (Fall 2004, Spring/Fall 2005)
5. ITIS 4166/5166 Network Based Application Development (Spring 2007)   ITIS 5166 Applied Database (Spring 2008)

• At Berkeley , Kang taught the core concepts of computer networking in weekly discussion sessions as a GSI for EECS 122(Computer Network) by Jean Walrand and Kevin Fall in Spring 2002 in EECS Berkeley.

  Students Advised and Graduated:

Ph.D.:

Chris Nunnery, Ph.D., 2011, Employed by MITRE Government Lab, GAANN Fellowship..

Gautam Singaraju, Ph.D, 2009, Employed by Ask.com, NSF/GTA support.

Greg Sinclair, Ph.D. Expected 2012, IARPA project and iDefense (Verisign) support.

Alla El-Masri, Ph.D. Expected 2012, NSF support

Anurag Srivastava, Ph.D., (2010 – Current), NSF support

Rishabh Gupta, Ph.D., (2010 – Current), NSF/TA support

Richard Brown, Ph.D., (2010 – Current), DOD Scholarship support

M.S./B.S.:

Fei Xu, M.S. Graduated 2010, (Employed by Ask.com), NSF/TA support.

Jonathan Blanton, M.S., Graduated 2010. (Employed by Duke Energy IT), NSF support.

Zachariah Wadler, M.S. Graduated 2009. (Employed by DoE)

Jonathan Peterson, M.S. Graduated 2009. (Employed by DoD)

Jonathan Lavender, M.S. Graduated 2008. (Employed by DoD)

Dennis Underwood, M.S. Graduated 2008. (Employed by DoD)

Joshua Soles, M.S. Graduated 2009. (Employed by US Army CERDEC (Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center))

Adam Wenner, M.S. Graduated 2009. (Employed by Federal Reserve Bank)

Vikram Sharma, M.S. Thesis Graduated 2007. (Associate Partner at Emergys Corp)

Pratik Thanki, M.S. Graduated 2006, (Bank of America Systems Group)

Srivathsan Varadarajan, M.S. Graduated 2006, (TIAA-CREF I.T. Systems Group)

Carson Black, M.S. Graduated 2006, (Vanguard Network Applications Group)

Sumeet Jain M.S. Graduated 2006, (Software Solutions Lab.)

Thomas Pullen, B.S. Graduated 2010 (Bank of America Malware Security Team)

Thesis Advised and Committee:

Chris Nunnery, Ph.D. Dissertation Awarded 2011. Qualification Exam, 2009. Thesis Proposal Defense, 2010-09-29. (Advisor)

Dissertation Title: Advances in Modern Botnet Understanding and Accurate Enumeration of Infected Hosts

Peter Likarish, Ph.D. Dissertation Awarded 2011 (Univ. of Iowa, Committee, co-advisor). Also supported by the TLD Introspection project led by Dr. Kang.

Dissertation Title: Early Detection of Malicious Web Content with Applied Machine Learning

Gautam Singaraju, Ph.D. Dissertation Awarded 2009. (Advisor)

Dissertation Title: Towards Sender Accountability on Email Infrastructure using Sender Identity and Reputation Management

Greg Sinclair, Ph.D. Qualification Exam, 2011. (Advisor)

Vikram Sharma, M.S. Thesis Defense, 2007. (Advisor)

Services

External:

• ACM CCS (Computer Communication Security) 2011 and 2012, Tutorial co-chair;
• Speaker on the "Interacting with Live Malware on the Internet" panel at 24th IEEE Annual Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), October 25-27, 2010, Lake Arrowhead, CA

http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ccw/2010/slides/session-IX-ccw2010.pdf

• PC member for:
  International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2009)
  Usenix Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 2009)
  Conference on Email and Spam (CEAS 2009)
  The 5th workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2009)
  Usenix Large-Installation Systems Administrations (LISA 2008, 2009)
  Malware (IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software) 2010

• Proposal Reviewer for

NSF Panel on Trusted Computing (TC) Program 2009;

NSF Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) Program 2007 and 2008;

AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Program 2009 (Anti-Spam Topic);

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, Botnet Security Topic) 2009.

• Chair for the System Administrator Education Workshop and Coordinator of the Posters and Work-In-Progress Sessions at LISA 2007.
• Reviewer for:
  IEEE Oakland Security and Privacy (Oakland 2008)
  Usenix Large-Installation Systems Administrations (LISA 2007)
  IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine (2010)
  Usenix File and Storage Systems (FAST 2005)

• Kang has been serving as Usenix Representative for UNC Charlotte since Dec 2004.
• Kang has been a PI for planet-lab consortium since Fall 2004. www.planet-lab.org

University:

• Kang served as Bank of America Teaching Award Week Preparation Committee Member during Fall 2005 (Provost appointed group)
• Kang served on New Faculty Orientation Week Committee. (Provost appointed group. Kang's suggestions regarding the web site structure have been very instrumental and have received acknowledgement from the staffs and new faculty members.)
• Kang has served as a member of the Faculty Center for Teaching and e-Learning unit review committee since Spring 2006. (Academic affairs appointed group)

College:

• Kang has run our college seminar for Fall 2006.
• Kang served on the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee for SIS Dept.
• Kang served on the Infrastructure Committee for SIS Dept.
• Kang served on the IT Infrastructure Committee, representing SIS Dept. He offered a great deal of technical advice on IT infrastructure issues for the College.

Media Coverage:

• WSOC TV Channel 9 news, March 2009: Kang's botnet and malware research efforts were aired on WSOC news and also appeared on WSOC's news web site:
• UNCC Magazine, Fall 2007: Highlighted Kang's research on cyber security and systems administration.
• International Bank Fraud Newsletter Article, "Botnets: An Avenue to Cyber Crime and Fraud": Featured Kang's research work on botnet malware.