Dr. Kent E. Seamons
Assistant Professor
Director, Internet Security Research Lab

Address:
Computer Science Department
Brigham Young University
3361 TMCB
Provo, UT 84602


Phone: (801) 422-3722
Fax: (801) 422-0620
Email: seamons@cs.byu.edu



Dr. Seamons is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brigham Young University and is the Director of the Internet Security Research Lab. Prior to joining the faculty at BYU, Dr. Seamons was the Principal Investigator on several DARPA-sponsored research projects at the IBM Transarc Lab in Pittsburgh, PA. He was a co-inventor of two patent applications filed in 21 countries by IBM in the area of trust negotiation. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he conducted research in parallel I/O.

Research Interests:

Dr. Seamons is currently conducting research in the use of digital credentials to establish trust between strangers on the Internet. His research interests in Internet security are in the areas of digital credentials and trust negotiation. Dr. Seamons has over 20 research publications in the areas of security, parallel I/O, distributed systems, and information retrieval.