About the Authors

Jelena Mirkovic received her B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Montenegro in 1998, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA in 2000 and 2003. She is currently an assistant professor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department, University of Delaware.

Jelena developed an interest in networking and security research during her graduate studies, and became involved in projects working on new defenses against IP spoofing and distributed denial of service attacks. Her Ph.D. work led to the first source-end DDoS defense system, called D-WARD, that prevents participation of poorly managed networks in DDoS attacks. She further worked to improve the understanding of the DDoS threat ...

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