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Published on: 9/19/2009
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Clay Shields · Assistant Professor · CERIAS, Purdue University
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Clay was born in Washington, D.C, and spent much of his childhood living overseas as required by the career of his stepfather, who was a covert agent for the CIA.
Clay got an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, and after a year as a computer programmer on Capitol Hill, joined the U.S. Army.
As an infantry officer with the 101st Airborne Division, Clay served overseas with the peace-keeping force in the Sinai Peninsula, earning a commendation for liaison work with the Egyptian and Israeli military.
Because sitting in a muddy foxhole with a rifle was not intellectually challenging enough, Clay left the Army to return to graduate school.
He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, and for his dissertation he studied computer networking, particularly multicast routing and network security issues.
With the ink not yet dry on his PhD, Clay took a job as an assistant professor in computer science at Purdue University, not so much for easy access to corn, but to be associated with CERIAS and to continue his research into network security.
Clay is particularly interested in finding ways to exploit existing protocols, in designing secure protocols and in finding ways to keep careful track of what is happening in a network while maintaining user privacy and anonymity.