Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Email: jonkirsch at jhu dot edu
My resume: .pdf .doc
About Me
Hi. My name is Jon Kirsch, and I'm a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. I work as a Research Assistant in the Distributed Systems and Networks lab with my advisor, Dr. Yair Amir. My main research interest is in the area of Distributed Systems; in particular, I'm currently interested in database replication, both in benign and Byzantine enviroments.I received an M.S.E. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins in May 2007. I received a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in May of 2004.
Publications
- Paxos for System Builders
Yair Amir and Jonathan Kirsch
Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2008), New York, September 2008.
- Steward: Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication to Wide Area Networks
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Danny Dolev, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Josh Olsen, and David Zage
To appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). - Byzantine Replication Under Attack
Yair Amir, Brian Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane
Accepted to 38th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), Anchorage, Alaska 2008.
- Customizable Fault Tolerance for Wide-Area Replication
Yair Amir, Brian Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane
IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2007) pp.66-80, Beijing, China, October 2007 - Secret Handshakes with Dynamic and Fuzzy Matching
Giuseppe Ateniese, Marina Blanton, Jonathan Kirsch
14th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2007), February 2007 - Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant
Replication to Wide Area Networks
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Danny Dolev, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Josh Olsen, David Zage
IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2006) pp.105-114, Philadelphia, June 2006 - Load balancing and locality in
range-queriable data structures
James Aspnes, Jonathan Kirsch, Arvind Krishnamurthy
Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2004) pp.115-124, July 2004.
Additional Reports
- Paxos For System Builders
Jonathan Kirsch and Yair Amir
A complete specification of the Paxos replication protocol such that system builders can understand it and implement it. - Towards Key-Privacy in a Fuzzy Identity-Based
Encryption Scheme
Submitted in Advanced Cryptographic Protocols course, May 2005. - An Implementation and Analysis of the
Skip Graph Data Structure
Senior Thesis. Yale University, May 2004.
Completed Ph.D. Coursework
- CS437: Distributed Systems
- CS442: Cryptography and Network Security
- CS463: Algorithms I
- CS642: Advanced Cryptographic Protocols
- CS667: Advanced Distributed Systems and Networks
- CS416: Transaction Processing Systems
- CS449: Internet Protocols
- CS443: Security and Privacy in Computing
Musical Interests
Besides Computer Science, the other passion in my life is music. At Yale, I was a member of Out of the Blue, a co-ed pop-rock a cappella group. I served as musical director from 2003-2004, which was an incredibly rewarding experience.Here at Hopkins, I am a member of Ketzev, an a cappella group specializing in Jewish music. I also sing with the JHU Choral Society, and ECCO, a Chamber Choir, both directed by Dr. Mark Hardy.
I also play the piano and cello.