Education:

1. •In progress. Ph.D. Computer Science, George Mason Univ. Current research topics include VoIP security and mobile device privacy. 3.75 GPA.
   

2. •12/2005 M.S. Computer Science, Wake Forest Univ. Thesis: “Parallel Firewall Designs For High-Speed Networks.” [pdf, bib, slides] 3.58 GPA. Vice President of Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
   

3. •12/2002 B.S. Computer Science, Wake Forest Univ. 3.33 GPA in Major.
   

Patent:

1. •Errin W. Fulp and Ryan J. Farley. “Method, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Implementing Function-Parallel Network Firewall.” Application No. 11/316,331. Patent Pending No. 60/638,436. December 22, 2005. [link]
   

Publications:

1. •Ryan Farley and Xinyuan Wang. Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation. In Computers & Security, January 2010. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2009.12.002. [bib]
   

2. •Ryan Farley and Xinyuan Wang. Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation. In IFIP SEC-2009: Proceedings of the 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, Paphos, Cyrpus, May 2009. Springer. [pdf, bib, slides]
   

3. •Ruishan Zhang, Xinyuan Wang, Xiaohui Yang, Ryan Farley, and Xuxian Jiang. An Empirical Investigation into the Security of Phone Features in SIP-based VoIP Systems. In ISPEC ’09: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, Xi’an, China, April 2009. Springer. [pdf, bib]
   

4. •Ruishan Zhang, Xinyuan Wang, Ryan Farley, Xiaohui Yang, and Xuxian Jiang. On the Feasibility of Launching the Man-In-The-Middle Attacks on VoIP from Remote Attackers. In ASIACCS ’09: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Information, Computer, and Communications Security, pages 61–69, Sydney, Australia, March 2009. ACM. [pdf, bib]
   

5. •Errin W. Fulp and Ryan J. Farley. A Function-Parallel Architecture for High-Speed Firewalls. In ICC ’06: Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Communications, volume 5, pages 2213–2218, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006. IEEE Press (Wiley-IEEE). [pdf, bib]
   

6. •Ryan J. Farley and Errin W. Fulp. Effects of Processing Delay on Function-Parallel Firewalls. In PDCN ’06: Proceedings of the 24th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, pages 136–141, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2006. ACTA Press. [pdf, bib, slides]
   

Press:

1. •Paul Marks. “‘Bugnets’ Eavesdrop on You Wherever You Go.” New Scientist issue 2743 (16 January 2010). p. 17. [link]
   

2. •Laura Sessions Stepp. “Posting Their Lives, Moment By Moment.” Washington Post (9 July 2004). pp. C1,C2. [link]
   

3. •Mary Beth Marklein. “Students Have ‘Away’ With Words.” USA Today (29 March 2004). p. D7. [link]
   

4. •Sarah Mansell. “New Software Reveals Popularity of ‘Away’ Messages on College Campuses.” Wake Forest University News Service (12 February 2004). [link]