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Research Specialties

• Computer Security
• Information Retrieval
• Networking
• Java

Current Research

• Characterizing Internet Background Radiation
• Honeypots
• Security Design Patterns

Major Works

• "Public-Key Algorithms," Handbook of Information Security, ed. by H. Bidgoli, Wiley Publishing, 2005.
• IBM DeveloperWorks Tutorials http://www.ibm.com/developerworks
• “The San Francisco project: business process components and infrastructure,” ACM Computer Surveys, March 2000.
• “Java and the IBM San Francisco Project,” IBM Systems Journal, 3Q, 1998.
• “The San Francisco Project: Business Process Components and Infrastructure,” Java Report, March 1998.
• “Business Process Components for Distributed Object Applications,” Communications of the ACM, June 1998.
• “The San Francisco project: an object-oriented framework approach to building business applications,” Proceedings of the 21st International Computer Software and Applications Conference, August 1997.

Significant Scholarly Honors

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Java Direction and Overall Technical Leadership for San Francisco Release 1.0 (IBM Formal Award), 1997
• Market Driven Quality Award for AS/400 Translator (Team Award), 1996
• Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer, Honorable Mention (National EE Honor Society), 1991
• Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer, Finalist, 1989
• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for I/O Architecture and Project Management (IBM Formal Award), 1988

Current Community Relationships

• Chair, Minnesota TECHCORP Advisory Board
• Industry Advisory Committee, University of Minnesota Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
• Teach 6th grade challenge math class (1 hour/week) at Royal Oaks Elementary School in Woodbury, MN