"A team, is not a team, if you don't give a damn about one another!"
-Best of the Best
Michael Kaplan
Research Scientist

Telcordia Technologies
Applied Research
1 Telcordia Drive
Piscataway, NJ 08854



Resume

Area of Interest

Software engineering for the intelligence and defense community

Biographical Sketch

Michael was a Computer Science graduate student in the Distributed Systems and Networking Lab at The Johns Hopkins University.  He received his B.S. in Computer Science with High Distinction from the University of Virginia in 2003 and his M.S.E. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in June 2006.  Prior to graduate school, Michael worked as a software engineer for General Dynamics and as an SAT Tutor for the Princeton Review. Currently Michael works as a Research Scientist for Telcordia Technologies. He resides in New Brunswick, NJ.

Research

Michael worked on a variety of networking projects during his studies at Johns Hopkins. His Masters research entailed building a high-performance routing scheme that quadrupled the throughput of the SMESH ad-hoc wireless network. He also worked with programmable network cards to protect overlay networks from insider attacks and implemented a prototype system for distributed surgical robotics.

Selected Publications

  • "On Redundant Multipath Operating System Support for Wireless Mesh Networks," Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Michael Kaplan, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, Nilo Rivera. Accepted to the Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2008), San Francisco, California.

Computer Science Teaching

  • Spring 2006: 600.319/419 - Storage Systems
  • Fall 2005: 600.120 - Intermediate Programming
  • Fall 2004: 600.321/421 - Object Oriented Systems