1995 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Email: jak at cs dot jhu dot edu
CV
About Me
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 research focuses on the design and implementation of survivable, secure, high-performance distributed systems. I am specifically interested in building intrusion-tolerant wide-area replication systems and developing distributed algorithms for fault-tolerant replication.Publications
- 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.
- 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
- Intrusion-Tolerant Group Management for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Jonathan Kirsch, Brian Coan
Based on work done while interning at Telcordia Technologies in Summer 2008, as part of DARPA's
Intrinsically Assurable Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (IAMANET) program.
- 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 have been a member of Ketzev, an a cappella group specializing in Jewish music, for the past 4.5 years. I served as musical director from Fall 2005 - Fall 2007.I also play the piano and cello.