Jonathan R. Stanton

Department of Computer Science		jonathan@cs.jhu.edu
The Johns Hopkins University		http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/~jonathan/
3400 North Charles Street		Phone: (410) 516-0454 (Office)
Baltimore, MD 21218			  Fax: (410) 516-6134 


Research interests:

	 Distributed systems, network protocols, distributed security.

Education:

May 2002	Ph.D. in Computer Science The Johns Hopkins University.
		Wide Area Group Communication. Adviser: Yair Amir.

1998		M.Eng in Computer Science The Johns Hopkins University.
1995		B.A. in Mathematics	  Cornell University.

Work experience:

Sept. 2000 -- present	Co-Founder and Officer. Spread Concepts LLC.

Academic:
Sept. 2001 -- present   Assistant Research Professor. 
			Johns Hopkins University.
Sept. 1996 -- Aug. 2001	Research Assistant. Johns Hopkins University.
July 1995 -- Aug. 1996	Teaching Assistant. Johns Hopkins University.
Sept. 1994 -- May 1995	Teaching Assistant. Cornell University.
May 1994 -- Sept. 1994	Instructor. Cornell University.

Grants:

* Co-PI, ``A Cost-Benefit Approach to Fault Tolerant Communication and
  Information Access,'' DARPA BAA 00-01, $944,015, May 2000 -- April
  2003 (with Yair Amir (Co-PI) and Baruch Awerbuch (Co-PI)).

* Co-PI, ``High Performance, Robust and Secure Group Communications,''
  DARPA BAA 99-33, $1,350,824 of which $450,000 is co-funded by
  the NSA. The Hopkins part totals $998,059, May 2000 -- April 2003
  (with Yair Amir (Co-PI), Baruch Awerbuch (Co-PI), and Gene Tsudik as a
  subcontractor from UC Irvine).

Research and Publications:

Released Software

* Spread -- a wide-area group communication and messaging toolkit
  (http://www.spread.org/) available in source and binaries. Supports
  over seven different platforms. Commonly used to support reliable
  web clusters and downloaded over 2000 times.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

* ``Framework for Authentication and Access Control of Client-Server
  Group Communication Systems,'' Yair Amir, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, and
  Jonathan Stanton, Third International Networked Group Communications
  Workshop, London, UK, November 7-9, 2001, Published in LNCS 2233, 
  120-128

* ``Exploring Robustness in Group Key Agreement,'' Yair Amir, Yongdae
  Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene
  Tsudik, 21th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing
  Systems (ICDCS), Phoenix, Arizona, April 16-19, 2001, 399-408.

* ``A Low Latency, Loss Tolerant Architecture and Protocol for Wide
  Area Group Communication,'' Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, and Jonathan
  Stanton, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
  (ICDSN) (previously FTCS-30), New York, New York, June 25-28, 2000, 
  327-336.

* ``Secure Group Communication in Asynchronous Networks with Failures:
  Integration and Experiments,'' Yair Amir, Giuseppe Ateniese, Damian
  Hasse, Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Theo Schlossnagle, John
  Schultz, Jonathan Stanton, and Gene Tsudik, 20th IEEE International
  Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Taipei, Taiwan,
  April 10-13, 2000, pp 330-343.

Technical Reports

* ``Robust Contributory Key Agreement in Secure Spread,'' Yair Amir,
  Yongdae Kim, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, John Schultz, Jonathan Stanton,
  and Gene Tsudik, submitted to a journal.

* ``Flow Control for Many-to-Many Multicast: A Cost-Benefit
  Approach,'' Yair Amir, Baruch Awerbuch, Claudiu Danilov, and
  Jonathan Stanton, Technical Report CNDS-2001-1.

* ``The Spread Wide Area Group Communication System,'' Yair Amir and
  Jonathan Stanton, Technical Report CNDS-98-4.

Service

* Member of the Program Committee for the IEEE International Conference on
  Distributed Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria July 2002
* Reviewer for DISC 1998, FTCS 1999, ICDCS 2000, 2001, IPDPS 2002, Journal 
  of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Presentations and Lectures

Workshops
* Invited Speaker at Spread Workshop 2001.
* Invited Panelist at IEEE ICDCS April 2001 Workshop on Applied Reliable 
  Group Communication.

Conference Lectures

* Networked Group Communication Workshop, London, November 2001.
* International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 
  New York City, July 2000.
* International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taipei, 
  March 2000.

Other Presentations
* Fault Tolerant Networks PI meeting, San Diego, January 2002.
* Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Open House, Baltimore, 
  October 2001.
* Dynamic Coalitions PI meeting, Colorado Springs, July 2001.

Teaching:

Johns Hopkins University.
* Instructor for Distributed Systems, Fall 2001.
* Co-instructor for Distributed Systems, Fall 1999, Fall 2000.
* Teaching Assistant for Parallel Algorithms, Spring 1996.
* Teaching Assistant for Computer Architecture, Fall 1995.

Cornell University.
* Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Programming, Fall 1994, 
  Spring 1995.
* Instructor in basic computer and web use and author of instructional 
  materials, Summer 1994.

Skills & Interests:

C, Java, HTML, Pascal, Perl, Bash, 
Unix, Linux, Macintosh, MS-DOS, MS-Windows.
Skiing, Science Fiction, Backpacking.

References:

Available on request.