Stefan Savage was born on 1969 and is an American computer science researcher, currently a Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California, San Diego.
10 Facts About Stefan Savage
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Stefan Savage received his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon and his Ph.
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That same year, Stefan Savage published "Sting", a paper and software tool that presented a mechanism to abuse quirks in the TCP protocol to allow a single party to infer bidirectional packet loss, a valuable contribution to traffic measurement.
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In 2000, Stefan Savage's team published Practical Network Support for IP Traceback, which proposed a simple stochastic extension to internet routers that would enable them to trace floods of traffic back to their origin.
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Stefan Savage later co-founded Asta Networks, which offered a product that addressed these problems.
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In 2003, John Bellardo and Stefan Savage published 802.11 Denial-of-Service Attacks: Real Vulnerabilities and Practical Solutions, which introduced practical attacks on 802.11 wireless protocol flaws that would allow attackers to force legitimate clients off wireless networks.
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The paper is a notable example of applied reverse engineering in an academic setting; Bellardo and Stefan Savage reverse engineered the Intersil wireless chipset, finding an undocumented diagnostic mode that allowed them to directly inject malicious wireless packets onto a network.
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In 2005, Ishwar Ramani and Stefan Savage developed Syncscan algorithm that cuts the time needed to switch between Wi-Fi access points.
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In 2004, Stefan Savage was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, in 2010 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and in 2013, he received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.
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Stefan Savage was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021 and was named a recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science-administered Golden Goose Award the same year.