Professor
Denise Anthony, Sociology Department, Dartmouth
CollegeDenise Anthony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College, and Adjunctt Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. Dr. Anthony's research interests include collective action processes, economic sociology, organizational behavior and the sociology of health care. She studies mechanisms for producing cooperation, trust, and social capital among low-income entrepreneurs in micro-credit borrowing groups. She is now beginning to explore how trust affects communication and security in the digital environment of the Internet. She works with the PKI-Lab and the Center for Mobile Computing to explore the development and use of technology and institutional infrastructure for secure communication within and across wired and wireless computer networks. She is also studying inter-organizational communication between industry and government organizations during the national cyber-exercise, Livewire, sponsored by the Institute for Security and Technology Studies at Dartmouth. In health care, she has studied how organizational incentives and communication networks affect physician.s referral behavior and career satisfaction. In addition, she is exploring institutional change in the health care industry by studying variation in managed care practices across the industry, and variation in hospital utilization norms across regions with differing levels of health care intensity. Prior to her appointment at Dartmouth, Denise was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of Michigan from 1997-1999. She has a PhD in Sociology (1997) from the University of Connecticut.
Apu Kapadia
Apu Kapadia received his PhD from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and was the recipient of a four-year
High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship from the Department
of Energy. His doctoral research focused on trustworthy
communication and models for privacy in pervasive environments.
In October 2005, Apu joined ISTS as a Post-Doctoral Research
Fellow and is working with Profs. David Kotz and Sean Smith on
topics related to location privacy, mobile computing,
trust-worthy platforms, and public-key
infrastructures.
Yong Sheng Yong Sheng received
the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering (1992, from Beijing
University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing,
China), and the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering (1996, from
BUPT). He finished his Ph.D in Computer Engineering in August
2006, working with George Cybenko at Dartmouth College, with a
dissertation entitled ``The Theory of Trackability and Robustness
for Process Detection''. Yong is currently a postdoc research
associate in the MAP team, a project of the Institute for
Security Technology Studies and the Center of Mobile Computing at
Dartmouth College. Yong's research interests include stochastic
modeling, detection and estimation theory, time series pattern
analysis, computer and network security, autonomic computing, and
collaborative signal processing for distributed sensor networks,
and data fusion.
Bennet Vance Bennet Vance was a
public school student in Hanover when computing arrived at
Dartmouth in the 1960s. Bennet soon acquired the habit of heading
over to the computation center after school to try out his latest
BASIC programs. His subsequent career as a software developer has
included stints at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey; at
True BASIC, the compiler company cofounded by Dartmouth computing
pioneers John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz; and at the IBM Almaden
Research Center in Silicon Valley, where he helped extend IBM's
DB2 database system. Returning to Hanover in 2001, Bennet worked
in Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
before taking his current position with the CMC. He holds a
bachelor's degree in math from Yale and graduate degrees in
computer science from Stanford and from the OGI School of Science
& Engineering.
Jihwang Yeo Jihwang Yeo is a
programmer and administrator for CRAWDAD project, working with
Professors David Kotz and Tristan Henderson. His current work is
focused on providing the research community with a large wireless
network resource archive, e.g., data sets and tools. He was a
research assistant in MIND (Maryland Information and Network
Dynamics) lab at University of Maryland, where his primary
contribution was the development of a wireless monitoring
technique for the analysis and modeling of wireless traffic. His
professional career also includes developing XML/SOAP-database
gateway when he worked at the IBM Almaden Research Center in
summer 2001. He received a master's degree in Computer Science
from University of Maryland, College Park MD. He also holds a
bachelor's degree and another master's degree in Computer
Engineering from Seoul National University,Seoul,
Korea.
Vijay received his B. Tech. in Computer
Engineering from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University,
Lonere, India in 2000. He received his Ph. D. in Computer Science
from Western Michigan University in 2007. He designed lightweight
intrusion detection techniques for wireless sensor networks as
part of his Ph. D. dissertation. He joined ISTS as a
post-doctoral fellow in February 2007 and is working with Prof.
David Kotz and Prof. Andrew Campbell. He has 12 publications and
3 posters in the areas of intrusion detection for wireless sensor
networks, localization, security and privacy. He was an honorable
mention at a student research poster competition held at 7th
Annual Information Security Symposium (by CERIAS at Purdue
University). He was an honorable mention for an excellence in
research award at the Department of Computer Science, Western
Michigan University for two years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. He did
internships at ABN Amro (Mumbai), Crompton Greaves (Mumbai) and
Manatron (Portage, MI). He is a member of UPE and served as a
vice president of the local chapter at Western Michigan
University in 2003-2004.
Tristan Henderson was a Research
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at
Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. He holds an M.A. in Economics
from the University of Cambridge, and an M.Sc and Ph.D in
Computer Science from University College London. His research
interests include wireless networks, measurement, network
economics, and networked multimedia, with a particular interest
in distributed computer games. He is a member of the ACM, IEE,
IEEE and the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers,
and serves on the Steering Committee for the International
Workshop on Network and System Support for Games.
Minkyong Kim, a post-doc with Professor
David Kotz. Her research interests include wireless networks,
mobile computing, and distributed systems. For her Ph.D. degree,
she worked on designing a file system for mobile clients and
estimating network capacity for adaptive systems. She received
her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University
of Michigan. She got her B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering
from Seoul National University.
Kazuhiro Minami recently completed his
Ph.D. thesis "Secure Context-sensitive Authorization", in which
he built and evaluated a distributed authorization system that
protects confidential policies and context information in each
administrative domain. Kazuhiro is now a postdoctoral research
associate at Institute for Security Technology Studies at
Dartmouth College, and will be a I3P Fellow at the Information
Trust Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for
the 2006-2007 academic year.
Guanling Chen completed his Ph.D thesis in 2004, "Solar: Building
A Context Fusion Network for Pervasive Computing", in which he
built and evaluated a middleware framework to support
context-aware applications in pervasive computing. Solar is
flexible and allows applications to select distributed data
sources and compose them with customized data-fusion operators
into a directed acyclic information flow graph. Guanling was an
I3P Fellow at the Institute for Security Technology Studies at
Dartmouth College, and joined the University of Massachusetts
(Lowell) beginning Fall 2005.
Qun Li completed his Ph.D thesis in 2004, "Mobility and
Communication in Sensor Networks", and is now an assistant
professor of computer science at the College of William and Mary
in Williamsburg, VA. His thesis considered the duality between
two important issues in sensor network research: communication
and mobility. It builds on the infrastructure of power-aware
communication and global clock synchronization and shows the
duality between communication and mobility can be achieved to
enhance each other's quality and efficiency.
Jon used ideas from economics to
develop a market-based approach to the allocation of resources in
a distributed system. In his approach, computations are mobile
agents that need to jump from host to host to reach the resources
they need. They must pay for the computation time they use at
each host. The resulting market is an efficient mechanism for
fair, distributed allocation of computational resources. In the
fall Jon will be a professor in the Mathematics and Computer
Science department at Colorado College.
Michael designed and built a
collection of small sensor modules, each with a small processor
and RF network link. When turned on, his modules quickly identify
their neighbors in the ad-hoc wireless network and use a novel
GPS-based routing algorithm to communicate their sensor readings
to a central collection point.
Dr. Bob Gray, Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Department of Computer Science
Cal Newport graduated in 2004 with an honors A.B.
degree in computer science, based on his senior thesis,
"Simulating mobile ad hoc networks: a quantitative evaluation of
common MANET simulation models". His work, which explored the
relationship between simulation and experimental results in ad
hoc wireless networks, provided the basis for two papers recently
presented at MSWiM. Cal is now a graduate student in computer
science at MIT.
Alexander worked with Sean Smith on an analysis of
the trust and privacy issues surrounding software attestation and
a prototype of a solution that addresses those issues using NSA
Security-Enhanced Linux and the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted
Platform Module. His senior thesis was titled "Software
Compartmentalization and Attestation Using SELinux and the
TPM/TCPA".
Mike worked with Bob Gray on ad-hoc routing algorithms
for wireless sensor networks, for his senior honors thesis
project Power Conservation in the Network Stack of Wireless
Sensors . Much attention has been given to the construction
of power-conserving protocols and techniques, as battery life is
the one factor that prevents successful wide-scale deployment of
such networks. These techniques concentrate on the optimization
of network behavior, as the wireless transmission of data is the
most expensive operation performed by a sensor node. Very little
work has been published on the integration of such techniques,
and their suitability to various application domains. His thesis
presents an exhaustive power consumption analysis of network
stacks constructed with common algorithms, to determine the
interactions between such algorithms and the suitability of the
resulting network stack for various applications. Mike also
worked as a Research Associate at ISTS for a year after
graduation before joing the graduate program at CMU
Clara's senior honors thesis analyzed data
collected over three months of 2002 to measure the persistence
and prevalence of users of the Dartmouth wireless network. For
her honors thesis 
Kobby helped to deploy all of the
hardware and software necessary to trace the activity of the
wireless network over the fall term, and then to write the
software necessary to crunch the data. He went on to complete a
senior thesis in computational biology, and Fall 2002 he begins a
Ph.D program in bioengineering at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Chris was awarded High Honors for his work in the
Solar project, in which he developed a small language and
run-time system that can define "roles" in terms of the changing
context. A role is a set of users who should be granted certain
access rights associated with that role. For example, one might
define a role called "room213" whose membership should be defined
to be any user currently located in room 213. Then services, such
as the projector, the room lights, and the sound system, might
grant access only to users in role "room213".
Abe was awarded High Honors for his work in the Solar
project, in which he studied the fundamental performance of
Solar's event-distribution mechanism, and added an extensible
framework to allow events to be distributed in a variety of
formats, particularly XML. Abe has founded his own company to
develop and market his Java persistence software tools.
Ammar developed a secure, scalable
directory service for mobile users, and applied it to the mobile
voice-over-IP application developed by Ayorkor. Chief among its
goals was protecting the privacy of mobile users, so that a
stalker cannot track the IP address (and thus the location) of a
moving user. For his work, Ammar was awarded High Honors and
shared the Kemeny Prize for Computing
Ayorkor extended
the H.323 telephony protocols so that a voice-over-IP
conversation can continue even as the mobile user's computer
roams from access point to access point, and from IP subnet to IP
subnet, changing IP addresses. For her work, Ayorkor was awarded
High Honors and shared the Kemeny Prize for Computing.
Arun implemented the first application
for Guanling Chen's Solar system. His SmartReminder application
reminds its user of upcoming appointments depending on the
current location and the location of the next appointment. For
his work, Arun was awarded High Honors and shared the Kemeny
Prize for Computing.
Pablo used SNMP and an IP sniffer to trace the
activity of the new campus wireless network, to characterize the
way that people use the network. For his work, Pablo was awarded
High Honors.
Some of the 2001
graduates and their research advisor. From left to right,
Ammar Khalid, Arun Mathias, Ayorkor Mills-Tettey, Professor Dave
Kotz, and Pablo Stern