1995 University Avenue Suite 375
Berkeley, CA 94704
Email: jak at cs dot jhu dot edu
CV
About Me
I am currently a Research Scientist at the Siemens Technology-To-Business Center in Berkeley, CA.I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in May 2010. While at Hopkins, I worked as a Research Assistant in the Distributed Systems and Networks lab with my advisor, Dr. Yair Amir. My dissertation research focused on the design and implementation of survivable, secure, high-performance distributed systems based on intrusion-tolerant replication. My current interests include cloud computing and building highly-resilient SCADA systems for electricity distribution.
My PhD thesis: Intrusion-Tolerant Replication Under Attack
Publications
- Intrinsically Resilient Energy Control Systems
F. Sheldon, J. Huang, J. Dang, D. Fetzer, S. Goose, J. Kirsch, D. Manz, T. Morris, D. Wei
Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW12).
- Using Semantic Web Technologies to Develop Intrinsically Resilient Energy Control Systems
F. Sheldon, J. Huang, J. Dang, D. Fetzer, S. Goose, J. Kirsch, D. Manz, T. Morris, D. Wei
7th International Conference on Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS 2012).
- Toward Survivable SCADA For Industrial Automation
Jonathan Kirsch, Stuart Goose
AUTOMATION Congress 2012, Baden-Baden, Germany, June 2012.
- Toward Survivable SCADA
Jonathan Kirsch, Stuart Goose, Yair Amir, Paul Skare
Cyber Security Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW11), Oak Ridge, TN, October 2011.
- Prime: Byzantine Replication Under Attack
Yair Amir, Brian Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Volume 8 Issue 4, July 2011.
- 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, David Zage
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Volume 7 Issue 1, January 2010.
- Intrusion-Tolerant Group Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Jonathan Kirsch, Brian Coan
Second International Workshop on Dependable Network Computing and Mobile Systems (DNCMS '09).
- Paxos for System Builders: An Overview
Jonathan Kirsch, Yair Amir
2008 Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2008), New York, September 2008, pp. 1-6.
Invited paper.
- Byzantine Replication Under Attack
Yair Amir, Brian Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane
38th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008, pp. 197-206.
- Customizable Fault Tolerance for Wide-Area Replication
Yair Amir, Brian Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane
IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2007), Beijing, China, October 2007, pp. 66-80.
- Secret Handshakes with Dynamic and Fuzzy Matching
Giuseppe Ateniese, Marina Blanton, Jonathan Kirsch
14th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2007), San Diego, CA, 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), Philadelphia, PA, June 2006, pp. 105-114.
Award paper.
- 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), July 2004, pp. 115-124.
Additional Technical Reports
- An Attack-Resilient Architecture for Large-Scale Intrusion-Tolerant Replication
Yair Amir, Brian Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John Lane
- Paxos For System Builders
Jonathan Kirsch, 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
Personal
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. At Johns Hopkins, I was a member of Ketzev, an a cappella group specializing in Jewish music, for 5 years, serving as musical director from Fall 2005 - Fall 2007. I currently sing with the Stanford Symphonic Chorus.I also play the piano and the cello.