Rate My Professor Kevin Walsh

Walsh's research interests encompass computer security, operating systems, and networks. Key projects include CloudProxy/Tao for authentication and authorization in cloud computing, Nexus Authorization Logic (NAL) for trustworthy computing, Credence for combating content pollution in peer-to-peer filesharing, ModelNet for large-scale network emulation, and SNS for improving wireless network simulation scale. Select publications are "Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Filesharing" (NSDI 2006, Best Paper Award), "Logical Attestation: An Authorization Architecture for Trustworthy Computing" (SOSP 2011), "Nexus Authorization Logic (NAL): Design Rationale and Applications" (TISSEC 2011), "Intra-Cloud and Inter-Cloud Authentication" (IEEE Cloud Computing 2017), "Mechanisms for Mutual Attested Microservice Communication" (Clouds and Applications Management Workshop 2017), and "TLS with Trustworthy Certificate Authorities" (IEEE CNS Workshop 2016). He has taught courses including Techniques of Programming, Data Structures, Computer Systems and Organization, Operating Systems, Computer Networking, and Ethical Issues in Computer Science, as well as leading the Social Justice in Context Maymester program in Bangalore, India.