About Me

I'm a senior at Hanover High School in New Hampshire. I am interested in computer science and have taken CS courses and conducted research at Dartmouth College. Since the summer of 2007, I have been an intern under research professor Sergey Bratus at the PKI/Trust Lab at Dartmouth College. My research focus has been in computer security, although I enjoy almost any topic in CS.

In the summer of 2008, I attended the Research Science Institute at MIT. I researched failure-oblivious computing at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory under the supervision of Michael Zhivich. My research paper is titled Improved Heuristics for Program Continuation in Failure-Oblivious Computing. I was among the top-five distinguished presenters at RSI; a video of my presentation is available on this site.

A list of my Publications and Conferences and Dartmouth Coursework follows.

Publications and Conferences

LZfuzz
A smart fuzzer that uses the lempel-ziv compression algorithm to automatically tokenize protocols and then fuzzes and sends proxied traffic using a modified version of the General Purpose Fuzzer. LZfuzz was used to test the security of several SCADA and VoIP protocols.

Sergey Bratus, Axel Hansen, Anna Shubina.
LZfuzz: a fast compression-based fuzzer for poorly documented protocols.
Computer Science Technical Report TR2008-634. Dartmouth College. September 2008.

Sergey Bratus, Axel Hansen, Anna Shubina.
Fuzzing Proprietary SCADA Protocols.
Poster, Dartmouth Computer Science Research Symposium, 2008.

Backhoe
A vizualization of informational entropy to find novelty in packet and log traces.

Sergey Bratus, Axel Hansen, Fabio Pellacini and Anna Shubina
Backhoe, a Packet Trace and Log Browser.
Vizsec 2008 conference proceedings.

Baffle
An active fingerprinter for wireless access points over the link-layer.

Sergey Bratus, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, and Axel Hansen
Active Fingerprinting of 802.11 APs.
Toorcon 2008.

Sergey Bratus, Cory Cornelius, Daniel Peebles, and Axel Hansen
Active Fingerprinting of 802.11 APs.
Blackhat Briefings 2008.

I attended the following conferences in 2008:
Recon (Montreal), Defcon (Las Vegas), Blackhat (Las Vegas), Vizsec (Cambridge, MA), and Toorcon (San Diego).

Dartmouth Coursework

3D Digital Modeling, Professor Lorie Loeb, Fall 2008.
Computer Networks, Professor Andrew Campbell, Spring 2008.
Operating Systems, Professor Sean Smith, Fall 2007.
Computer Architecture, Professor Kate Forbes-Riley, Spring 2007.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program