Jonathan M. Smith
Olga and Alberico Pompa Professor
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: IEEE Fellow
Research Expertise: Computer Security | Distributed Systems
Jonathan's research interests center around computer networking and computer security. He is developing network architectures for new services and applications, such as the Terabit Edge Research Activity (TERA), which is focused on the coupling between parallel processing and parallelism in transmission systems, and implications for host software and network control. Jonathan is also working on Zodiac, an intrinsically assurable mobile ad-hoc network, where many challenges ensue as router and host become indistinguishable, and Dynamic Trust Management (DTM), which is focused on "situation-aware" authorizations for privileged actions, such as emergency situations.
Education:
PhD Computer Science 1989 - Columbia University
MS Computer Science 1983 - Columbia University
AB Mathematics 1981 - Boston College
Recent Publications 
- Observations from the 2012 mobile world congress in Barcelona, Grunenberger, Y. | Smith, J.M., Computer Communication Review, 2013
- The casino and the OODA Loop: Why our protocols always eventually fail, Clark, S. | Blaze, M. | Smith, J.M., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2012
- Practicality of accelerometer side channels on smartphones, Aviv, A.J. | Sapp, B. | Blaze, M. | Smith, J.M., ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2012
- Privacy-aware message exchanges for geographically routed human movement networks, Aviv, A.J. | Sherr, M. | Blaze, M. | Smith, J.M., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2012
- Familiarity breeds contempt: The honeymoon effect and the role of legacy code in zero-day vulnerabilities, Clark, S. | Frei, S. | Blaze, M. | Smith, J., Proceedings - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC, 2010