Roger Khazan, Ph.D. email:  tel: (781)981-5976

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Hi! 

I am a member of the research staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Information Systems Technology group.

My research interests include the following topics: Robust and secure algorithms and protocols for distributed systems and networks -- both theory and systems; Secure communication and collaboration in dynamic environments; Information assurance and computer security. Here is a list of my publications (Ph.D. Dissertation 2002, Conference and Journal Papers, Tech Reports, and M.Sc. Thesis).

MIT Students:

Contact me if you are a CS M.Eng. or Undegraduate student who is looking for a research project. I am approved by MIT EECS to supervise master's thesises and undegraduate research projects. My current and past students are:

• Prasad Ramanan, Robust Chat for Airborne Command and Control, co-supervised with Dr. Clifford Weinstein, August 2003;
• Catherine Matlon, A Specification and Verification of Intermittent Global Order Broadcast, co-supervised with Prof. Nancy Lynch, June 2004;
• Michael Hamler, A Robust Multi-Server Chat Application for Dynamic Distributed Networks, co-supervised with Dr. Clifford Weinstein, August 2004;
• Chris Sheehan, VI-A Student. Summer 2004.
• Sophia Yuditskaya, Towards Implementing Group Membership in Dynamic Networks: A Performance Evaluation Study, June 2005.
• Robert Figueiredo, Secure Group Communication in Dynamic, Disadvantaged Networks, August 2006.
• Brian Wu, An Identity and Certificate Manager, co-supervised with Joseph Cooley, August 2007.
• Steven Kannan, Secure VoIP Conferencing, August 2007.

Conference Committees: DPDNS, NCA and a co-chair of NCA-TNC06, ICDCS03, ICDCS04.