John is a PhD candidate in
Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago studying under the tutelage of
Chris Kanich. He is a principal analyst at
NETSCOUT on the
ATLAS Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT). John is also
adjunct faculty in the
College of Computing and Digital Media at
DePaul University. He currently serves as a research fellow at
ICANN, sits on the
NANOG program committee, and operates
DataPlane.org.
John’s primary career interests, experience, and expertise are in Internet infrastructure. He is particularly focused on better understanding and improving the routing system (BGP), the naming system (DNS), and internetwork security.
John is or has been associated with a number of other organizations and projects in associated fields of research and technology, some of which include:
DNS-OARC,, Dragon Research Group (DRG),
IETF,
FIRST,
Internet2,
Neustar - formerly UltraDNS,
Northwestern University,
nsp-security,
ops-trust,
REN-ISAC, and
Team Cymru.
Research Area
Telecommunication & Networking, Networking, Security
Specific Research Area
TCP/IP protocols, end-to-end issues, information security, measurement, routing and naming.