Academics

Research Interests

As a graduate student, my primary areas of interest were cryptography and computer security, especially cryptographic voting systems. In fact, I have writen a Master's thesis on the subject. I am also interested in theoretical computer science in general, programming languages, and the social and ethical aspects of computing.

I am a former member of the UConn CryptoDRM Laboratory and the VoTeR Center, which evaluates voting technology for the State of Connecticut.

Papers

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Refereed

• An Internet Voting System Supporting User Privacy
  with Aggelos Kiayias and David Walluck. In ACSAC '06: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, pages 165-174, Washington, DC, USA, 2006. IEEE Computer Society.
  acsac.pdf (322KiB)

Unrefereed

• Secret-Ballot Electronic Voting Procedures Over the Internet
  My Master's thesis (2007).
  ms_thesis.pdf
• Security Assessment of the Diebold Optical Scan Voting Terminal
  with A. Kiayias, L. Michel, A. Russell, A. A. Shvartsman, A. See, N. Shashidhar, and D. Walluck. VoTeR Center technical report, Oct. 30, 2006.
• Melodic Composition with Genetic Algorithms
  Here is a short paper I wrote describing the ideas behind the GA Music Composer (see below) (2004).
  gamusic.pdf (62KiB)
• Playing Othello with Artificial Intelligence (2003)
  This paper describes the construction of the MLia Othello-playing AI. See below for the software (2003).
  othello.pdf (182KiB)
• LiveLetters: Writing with Emergence
  This is a paper I wrote for a course on Models of Interactive Computation. It presents a multi-agent algorithm that employs emergent behaviors to draw letters (2003).
  liveletters.pdf (205KiB)

Teaching

I have been a teaching assistant for:

• CSE123C: Introduction to Computing (Fall 2007)
• CSE134: Data Structures (Spring 2007)
• CSE230: Software Engineering (Spring 2006)
• CSE258: Operating Systems (Spring 2006)
• CSE210W: Digital Logic Design (Fall 2005, Fall 2006)
• CSE133: Object-Oriented Programming (Spring 2005)

Courses

I have taken the following graduate courses:

• MATH322: Probability and Stochastic Processes I (Fall 2007)
• CSE320: Independent Study on Coding Theory (Fall 2007)
• MATH303: Measure and Integration (Spring 2006)
• CSE311: Contemporary Issues in CSE (Spring 2006)
• MATH301: Introduction to Modern Analysis (Fall 2006)
• MATH336: Model Theory (Fall 2006)
• CSE364: Crypto: Primitives and Protocols (Fall 2005)
• MATH335: Mathematical Logic (Fall 2005)
• CSE320: Independent Study on Sensor Network Filtering Schemes (Fall 2005)
• CSE300: Advanced Topics in Algorithms (Spring 2005)
• MATH330: Algebraic Number Theory (Spring 2005)
• MATH316: Abstract Algebra II (Spring 2005)
• CSE311: CSE Theory Seminar (Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005)
• CSE365: Computational Complexity (Fall 2004)
• MATH315: Abstract Algebra I (Fall 2004)
• CSE320: Independent Study on Electronic Voting (Fall 2004)
• CSE300: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2004)
• CSE300: Models of Interactive Computation (Spring 2003)

Software Projects

Here are some projects I have worked on or am currently working on.

• Adder
  Adder is a system designed to be used for online summation procedures, e.g., electronic voting. Adder is secure, and employs strong encryption mechanisms to achieve this security. You can find more information at the Adder Web site.
• GA Music Composer
  This project was an attempt to design a system that composes melodies with genetic algorithms.
• Alien Pool
  Alien Pool is a 3rd-person overhead space shooter that is guaranteed (or your money back!) to keep you busy for hours. The objective is to destroy all of the aliens by shooting them into each other. Aliens that have been hit by bullets become "dumb," and bounce around the screen, making other aliens dumb as they become hit. The game will continue indefinitely until the player's health reaches zero, at which point the player is dead.
  Visit the Alien Pool Web site!
• MLia Othello game
  I have worked on an Othello project with David Walluck. It will consist of a GUI written in C++ with gtkmm, a server written in Java, and an AI written in OCaml. See the accompanying paper above.

Contributions

I have contributed the following material to various other projects:

• I contributed to django-html-mode, an Emacs major mode for editing Django templates.
• I wrote the documentation for KTeaTime, a tea-cooking applet which is part of the KDE project.