Kimberly Cornell

Assistant Professor

Degrees

Ph.D.Computer ScienceUniversity at Albany - SUNY
M.S.Computer ScienceUniversity at Albany - SUNY
B.S.Computer ScienceUniversity at Plattsburgh - SUNY

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, 2015-present
The College of Saint Rose
Courses:
CSC 111 Introduction to Computer Science (Fall 2015, Spring 2016).
CSC 112 Art and Science of Computer Graphics (Fall 2016).
CSC 252 Problem Solving with Java (Fall 2016, Spring 2017).
CSC 434 Software Engineering (Spring 2017).
CSC 462/562 Cybersecurity and Cryptography (Spring 2016, Spring 2017).
CSC 433/564 Programming Languages (Fall 2016).
CSC 507 Software Engineering (Fall 2015, Spring 2016).

Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) Student Intern, Summer 2014.
Topic: Symmetric and asymmetric uni cation for cryptographic protocol analysis.
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Meadows
Head Formal Methods Section
Center for High Assurance Computer Systems
Naval Research Laboratory

Instructor of Record, Summer 2013
University at Albany – SUNY
CSI 210 Discrete Structures

Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2010 – 2013
University at Albany – SUNY
Courses:
CSI 538 Computational Logic (Spring 2015).
CSI 519 Advanced Programming Concepts (Fall 2013 and Fall 2014).
CSI 409 Automata and Formal Languages Fall 2013 and Fall 2014).
CSI 426/526 Cryptography (Spring 2014).
CSI 418/518 Software Engineering (Spring 2012 and Spring 2013) Lab Instructor.
CSI 210 Discrete Structures (Fall 2012) Discussion Leader.
CSI 310 Data Structures (Summer 2012).
CSI 201 Introduction to Computer Science (Summer 2011 and Fall 2011) Lab Instructor.
Tutoring Computer Science and Information Science courses (Fall 2010 – Spring 2011)

Graduate Research Assistant, 2012 – 2013
University at Albany – SUNY
National Science Foundation Grant CNS 09-05286:
Adviser Dr. Narendran (Summer 2012, Summer 2013).

Teaching Interests

Cybersecurity, Cryptography, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Problem Solving with Java, System Administration, Discrete Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Computational Logic, Data Structures, Algorithms, Introduction to Computer Science and Fundamentals of Computer Science

Research/Creative Works

Refereed Publications
Distinguishability in Protocol Analysis: Formally Analyzing Guessing Attacks (2017)
Siva Anantharaman, Kimberly A. Gero, Paliath Narendran and Michael Rusinowitch
(Accepted for publication in The 12th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ’17)).

Daniel S. Hono II, Namrata Galatage, Kimberly A. Gero, Paliath Narendran, and Ananya Subburathinam. Notes on Lynch-Morawska Systems. In Silvio Ghilardi and Manfred Schmidt-SchauĂŸ, editors, Proceedings of the 30th International Workshop on Unification (UNIF 2016), 2016. http://users.mat.unimi.it/users/ghilardi/UNIF2016/UNIF16-abstracts.pdf

Kimberly A. Gero. Deciding Static Inclusion for DELTA-strong and OMEGA DEL-strong Intruder Theories: Applications to Cryptographic Protocol Analysis. PhD thesis, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1699224308.html?FMT=ABS

Serdar Erbatur, Kimberly A. Gero, Andrew M. Marshall, Catherine Meadows, and Paliath Narendran.
Unification modulo a Theory of Pairing and Encryption. In Santiago Escobar and Mateu Villaret,
editors, UNIF 2015, 29th International Workshop on Unification, 2016. http://users.dsic.upv.es/~sescobar/unif15-proceedings.pdf

Chris Bouchard, Kimberly A. Gero, and Paliath Narendran. Some Notes on Basic Syntactic Mutation. In
Santiago Escobar, Konstantin Korovin, and Vladimir Rybakov, editors, UNIF 2012 Post-Worskhop
Proceedings. The 26th International Workshop on Unification, volume 24 of EPiC Series in Computing,
pages 17–27. EasyChair, 2014. http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1544994675

Christopher Bouchard, Kimberly A. Gero, Christopher Lynch, and Paliath Narendran. On Forward
Closure and the Finite Variant Property. In Pascal Fontaine, Christophe Ringeissen, and Renate A.
Schmidt, editors, Frontiers of Combining Systems – 9th International Symposium, FroCoS 2013, Nancy,
France, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings, volume 8152 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages
327–342. Springer, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40885-4_23

Shreyaben Brahmakshatriya, Sushma Danturi, Kimberly A. Gero, and Paliath Narendran. Unification
Problems Modulo a Theory of Until. In Konstantin Korovin and Barbara Morawska, editors, 27th
International Workshop on Unification, UNIF 2013, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 26, 2013, volume 19
of EPiC Series in Computing, pages 22–29. EasyChair, 2013. http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=387500802

Michael Ferguson, Kimberly A. Gero, Joao Salles, and James Weis. Playing chess with a human-scale
mobile manipulator. In Wolfram Burgard and Dan Roth, editors, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011, San Francisco, California, USA, August 7-11,
2011. AAAI Press, 2011

Other Publications

Random Recursion (2009)
Kimberly A. Gero and Chao Shen (Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Midwest Region)
(Submitted as an extended abstract and presented as a poster).

Technical Reports

Daniel S. Hono, Namrata Galatage, Kimberly A. Gero, Paliath Narendran, and Ananya Subburathinam.
Notes on Lynch-Morawska Systems. CoRR, abs/1604.06139, 2016

Notes on Lynch-Morawska Systems
Daniel S. Hono II, Namrata Galatage, Kimberly A. Gero,Paliath Narendran, Ananya Subburathinam
April 2016, SUNYA-CS-16-01.

On Forward Closure and the Finite Variant Property
Christopher Bouchard, Kimberly A. Gero, Christopher Lynch, Paliath Narendran July 2013, SUNYA-CS-13-03.

Uni fication Problems Modulo a Theory of “Until”
Shreyaben Brahmakshatriya, Sushma Danturi, Kimberly A. Gero, Paliath Narendran April 2013, SUNYA-CS-13-02.

Notes on Basic Syntactic Mutation
Christopher Bouchard, Kimberly A. Gero, and Paliath Narendran, April 2012, SUNYA-CS-12-03.