Glenn Allen Fink

Senior Research Scientist
MS-IN K7-30
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999, Richland, WA 99352
+1-509-375-3994

Education

Ph.D., 2006, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
M.S., 1995, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Signal Officer Basic Course, 1989, Ft. Gordon Georgia
B.S., 1988, Math and Computer Science, Hampden-Sydney College

Relevant Work Experience

Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Oct 2006 to present. Duties include focus-area lead for adaptive systems, Information and Infrastructure Integrity Initiative (I4). Projects:
- PI: Tactical Deployment and Management of Autonomous Agents (FY07 to present I4 Lab-Directed Research and Development (LDRD))
- Co-PI: Prognostics and Predictive Risk Assessment for Computational Infrastructures (FY08 I4 LDRD, PI: Leonard Bond)
- PI and Architect: Commercialization project for the Host Network (Hone) Visualizer
Graduate Research Assistant Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science, Fall 2002 to Fall 2006
Computer Scientist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia, 1988-2002. Projects:
- Security Engineer, Virtual Operations Network (Allied and Coalition networking and PKI), Information Transfer Technology group, Code B35, 2000-2002
- Software Developer, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles software team, Code K63, 1993-2000
- Software Developer, Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) Software Division, Code K51, 1988-1992
U.S. Army Reserve Officer, 1988-1999. Assignments:
- Lanes Training Signal Team Lead, Richmond, VA, 1998-1999
- Company Commander, 301st Signal Company, 80th Division (TNG),Ft. Pickett, VA, 1996-1997
- Staff Officer, 2067th Division of Information Management (DOIM), Ft. Pickett, VA, 1994-1995
- Executive Officer/Platoon Leader, 301st Signal Company, 80th Division (TNG), Ft. Pickett, VA, 1990-1994
- Training Officer, D Co, 1st Battalion, 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division (TNG), Lynchburg, VA, 1988-1989

Awards and Honors

Integrated Research and Education in Advanced Networking (IREAN) Fellow, as of 01 January 2004.
Navy Civilian Service Fifteen-Year Pin, 2003.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Team Award, 1997.
Army Commendation Medal, 1994
Civilian Service Individual Performance Awards, Dept. of the Navy, Dahlgren Division: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995.
Commandant's List for Academic Achievement, Signal Officer's Basic Course, Ft. Gordon, GA, 1989.
Scabbard and Blade Military Honor Society, academic year 1987-1988.

Journal Articles, and Major Publications

Fink GA, McKinnon AD, Clements SL, and Frincke DA, “Tensions in Collaborative Cyber Security and How They Affect Incident Detection and Response.” Chapter two in Collaborative Computer Security and Trust Management. IGI Global, 2009, to appear. PNNL-SA-62872.
Fink, GA. Visual Correlation of Network Traffic and Host Processes for Computer Security. (Ph.D. dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006).
Chappell, B. L., Fink, G. A., Marlow, D. T., and O'Donoghue, K. F. Intrusion Detection and Response for Real-Time Distributed Naval Systems. In Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 4(2), June 2001

Other Publications

Fink GA, North CL, Endert A, and Rose SJ, “Visualizing Cyber Security: Usable Workspaces.” In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC 2009). PNNL-SA-66416
Maiden WL, Haack JN, Fink GA, McKinnon AD, and Fulp EW, “Trust Management in Swarm-Based Autonomic Computing Systems” in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing, 2009. PNNL-SA-64419
Haack JN, GA Fink, WM Maiden, AD McKinnon, and EW Fulp, “Mixed-Initiative Cyber Security: Putting humans in the right loop.” In Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Multiagent Systems (MIMS ’09), 2009. PNNL-SA-64635
Fulp, EW, Fink GA, and Haack JN, “Predicting Computer System Failures Using Support Vector Machines”, In Proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL '08), 9 December 2008, San Diego, CA, 2008.
Fink, G. A. and Frincke, D. A. Autonomic Computing: Freedom or Threat? ;login: The USENIX Magazine. 32: 6-14.
Fink, G. A., Duggirala, V., Correa, R., and North C. Bridging the Host-Network Divide: Survey, Taxonomy, and Solution. In Proceedings of the 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '06). Washington, DC pp. 247-262, USENIX, 2006.
Fink, G. A., Muessig, P., and North, C. Visual Correlation of Host Processes and Network Traffic. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC 05)., pp. 11- 19, 26 Oct. 2005
Fink, G. A. and North, C. Root Polar Layout of Internet Address Data for Security Administration. In Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC 05).,pp. 55- 64, 26 Oct. 2005.
Ball, R. G., Fink, G. A., Rathi A., Shah, S, and North, C. Home-Centric Visualization of Network Traffic for Security Administration. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security (VizSec/DMSec'04). Washington, DC, October 2004.
Fink, G. A., Raiszadeh, S., and Dean, T. Experiences Establishing an Experimental International Coalition Public Key Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the First Annual PKI Research Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, April 2002.
Fink, G.A., Chappell, B.L., Turner, T.G., O'Donoghue, K.F. A Metrics-Based Approach to Intrusion Detection System Evaluation for Distributed Real-Time Systems. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Orlando, FL, 2002.

Public Presentations, Posters, Reports, etc.

Submitted paper: Endert A, North CL, Andrews CP, and Fink GA, “The Visualization Pipeline is Broken”, Submitted to IEEE Conference on Information Visualization, 2009. PNNL-SA-65619
Fink, GA, “Cyber Analytics: Challenges and Solutions for Computer Security.” Presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Visualization and Network Monitoring, Wadern, Germany, 2009.
Fink, GA, “Mathematics of Cybersecurity: Advancing Applications with Proactive Capabilities” Presented at the 2009 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE09), 3-6 March, 2009; Miami, FL, USA.
Fulp, EW, Fink GA, and Haack JN, “Predicting Computer System Events using Support Vector Machines” Poster presented at USENIX LISA 2008, 12 Nov 2008, San Diego, CA.
“Who’s the Boss? Autonomics and New-Fangled Security Gizmos with Minds of their Own,” Invited talk presented at USENIX LISA 2007, 14 Nov 2007, Dallas, TX. Also presented at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 19 Dec 2007, Richland, WA.
“Autonomic Computing: Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears,” presented at USENIX LISA 2007, 14 Nov 2007, Dallas, TX.
Fink G.A., Scholtz, J.C., Frincke, D. A. , D McColgin, ML Gregory, D Gracanin, C North, K Edwards, J Karat, C Karat, and C Brodie. 2006. Secure Systems Must be Usable. Usability: The Missing Section 8.3 in the Federal Cyber Security Plan. PNNL-SA-53000 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA.
“Nontraditional Approaches to Information Security,” presented at IT-Day, 9 May 2007, Kennewick, WA. PNNL-SA-55217
“Visual Packet-Process Correlation for Computer Security,” presented at Hampden-Sydney College, 19 May 2006, Hampden-Sydney, VA.
Fink, G. A., Krishnamoorthy, S., and Kanade, A. Naval Crew Workload Monitoring and Visualization. In First Annual Conference on Systems Integration, Hoboken, NJ. 2003.

Patents

Fink, GA and Carpenter, BJ, “Monitoring Network Traffic by Tracking Data Packets on a Per Process Basis” filed 11/2007.