Michael Bailey

 Michael Bailey
Michael Bailey
Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory

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Education

  • 1992, BS in CS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
  • 1994, MS in CS from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2006, Ph.D. in CS from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Biography

Michael Bailey is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research interests lie in the areas of the security and performance of complex distributed systems. His work informs both the development of such systems as well as the sciences of computer security, networking, and distributed systems.

Academic Positions

  • 2007-2012, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • 2012-2014, Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • 2014-Present, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Resident Instruction

  • University of Michigan, EECS 591, Distributed Systems, Winter 2008, 19 Students
  • University of Michigan, EECS 591, Distributed Systems, Winter 2010, 23 Students
  • University of Michigan, EECS 398, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2012, 112 Students
  • University of Illinois, ECE 391, Computer Systems Engineering, Fall 2014, 138 Students
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2015, 134 Students (with Nikita Borisov)
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2015, 154 Students
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2016, 150 Students (with Roy Campbell)
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2016, 165 Students (with Ryan Cunningham)
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2017, 161 Students (with Andrew Miller)
  • University of Illinois, ECE 391, Computer Systems Engineering, Fall 2017, 223 Students (with Zbigniew Kalbarczyk)
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2018
  • University of Illinois, ECE 391, Computer Systems Engineering, Spring 2018 (with Zbigniew Kalbarczyk)
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Fall 2018
  • University of Illinois, ECE 422 / CS 461, Introduction to Computer Security, Spring 2019 (with Kirill Levchenko)

Articles in Conference Proceedings

  • Yunjing Xu, Zachary Musgrave, Brian Noble, and Michael Bailey. Bobtail: Avoiding Long Tails in the Cloud. In 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '13), Lombard, Illinois, USA, April 35, 2013. 171 submitted, 38 accepted (22.2%)
  • Zakir Durumeric, James Kasten, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman. Security Analysis of HTTPS Usage and Certificate Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC '13), Barcelona, Spain, October 2013. 178 submitted, 42 accepted (23.6%)
  • Jakub Czyz, Kyle Lady, Sam Miller, Michael Bailey, Michael Kallitsis, and Manish Karir. Understanding IPv6 Internet Background Radiation. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC '13), Barcelona, Spain, October 2013. 178 submitted, 42 accepted (23.6%)
  • Jakub Czyz, Mark Allman, Jing Zhang, Scott Iekel-Johnson, Eric Osterweil, and Michael Bailey. Measuring IPv6 Adoption. In ACM SIGCOMM 2014 Conference (SIGCOMM '14), Chicago, Illinois, August 17-22, 2014. 237 submitted, 45 accepted (19.0%)
  • Zakir Durumeric, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman. An Internet-wide View of Internet-wide Scanning. In 23rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '14), San Diego, California, August 20-22, 2014. 350 submitted, 67 accepted (19.1%)
  • Jakub Czyz, Michael Kallitsis, Manaf Gharaibeh, Christos Papadopoulos, Michael Bailey, and Manish Karir. Taming the 800 Pound Gorilla: The Rise and Decline of NTP DDoS Attacks. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC '14), Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 5-7, 2014. 188 submitted, 43 accepted (22.9%)
  • Zakir Durumeric, James Kasten, Frank Li, Nicolas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Michael Bailey, J. Alex Halderman, Jethro Beekman, Johanna Amann, and Mathias Payer. The Matter of Heartbleed. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC '14), Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 5-7, 2014. 188 submitted, 43 accepted (22.9%). Received Best paper Award.

Honors

  • Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE (2009)
  • University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Kenneth M. Reese Outstanding Research Scientist Award (2011)
  • University of Michigan Research Faculty Recognition Award (2012)
  • Elevated to Senior Member of ACM (2013)
  • Best paper, Internet Measurement Conference (2014)
  • IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (2015)
  • Engineering Council Outstanding Advising Award (2016)
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Fall 2018) (2016, 2018)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 461 (ECE 422) - Computer Security I
  • ECE 391 - Computer Systems Engineering

News Notes

  • 10/4/2024

    Illinois CS  PhD alumnus Deepak Kumar (advisor Michael Bailey) is a recipient of a 2025 Google Academic Research Award. Now at the University of California, San Diego, Kumar is a co-awardee for "Automated Conversational Interventions to Curb Toxic Content in Online Communities" under Trust & Safety.