Area of Interest

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 is employed as a Sr. Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies.

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

• "Realistic Wireless Emulation for Performance Evaluation of Tactical MANET Protocols," Michael Kaplan, Ta Chen, Mariusz A. Fecko, Provin Gurung, Ibrahim Hokelek, Sunil Samtani, Larry Wong, Mitesh Patel, Aristides Staikos, Ben Greear. October 2009 (MILCOM) Boston, Massachusetts.
• "WISER: Realistic and Scalable Wireless Mobile IP Network Emulator," M.A. Kaplan, A. Cichocki, S. Demers, M.A. Fecko, I. Hokelek, S. Samtani, J.W. Unger, M.U. Uyar, B.Greear. April 2009 (SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing) Orlando, Florida.
• "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.
• "Wireless Scalable Emulation for Integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry," M. A. Kaplan, M.A. Fecko, S. Samtani, M.U. Uyar, White Paper submitted to PEO STRI for Spectrum Efficient Technology, 2008.
• "Low-Overhead Routing for High-Performance Wireless Mesh Networks," M.A. Kaplan, Yair Amir, JHU Distributed Systems and Networks Lab, Technical Report 2006.
• "Biosensor Toolkit: Multiobjective Optimization for Signal Pattern Matching," M.A. Kaplan, J.P. Cohoon, University of Virginia Engineering Library, Thesis, 2003.

Computer Science Teaching

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