Chase Gray

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

June 2005 – August 2010 (5 years 3 months)

► Involved in the development of resilient routing schemes at the ARENA for Research on Emerging Networks and Applications.

► Contributed to the implementation of Failure Inferencing based Fast Rerouting (FIFR) for IP backbone networks. FIFR performs local rerouting and provides protection against any single failures without global link state updates while adhering to destination-based forwarding.

► Proposed an algorithm for identifying the minimal set of FIFR-aware nodes to protect a given link/node to facilitate incremental deployment of FIFR. Presented at USC Discovery Day 2006 and to be published in USC Undergraduate Research Journal.

► Programmed with NesC in the TinyOS environment to develop applications on our Tmote sensors. Mentored a visiting undergraduate researcher while he studied the effect of modifying the clear channel assessment threshold on the total throughput of a sensor network test bed.

► Designed a protocol, Covert Neighborhood Transmissions (CoNTra), for a pair of nodes to resist traffic analysis without a network-wide anonymity protocol. we Integrated our CoNTra protocol into the existing Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) implementation in ns2 network simulator using C++. This project required thorough knowledge of the network stack, Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), and ns2. The work was presented at ACM MobiCom 2007 and has been published in Mobile Computer Communications Review.

► Developed a rate selection algorithm for opportunistic routing in wireless mesh networks. Wrote evaluation framework to test our path metric on the Roofnet topology from MIT. Used Ruby to develop simulations to analyze the rate changes happening during the 90-second trace data. Published at the WiMesh 2008 conference at Secon 2008.

Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry

January 2007 – May 2009 (2 years 5 months)

► Taught 30-student class as sole instructor on data structures and algorithms with Java.

► Responsible for implementing and testing new teaching styles focusing on pair programming.

► Organize and teach a weekly lab on data structures in Java in which students are lead through new concepts with hands on programming.

► Provided assistance for students while they learned and worked with XHTML/JavaScript.

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Defense & Space industry

May 2008 – August 2008 (4 months)

► Successfully passed an NSA special background investigation and polygraph. Resulted in clearance to work with TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information.

► Primarily responsible for conducting research and developing prototype tools for computer network exploitation. Took a project from initial ideas and goals to a demonstrable prototype that is to be used as the basis for a new effort in a new agency division.

► Awarded NSA Star Award

December 2006 – April 2007 (5 months)

► Worked on all phases of the project from gathering requirements through its completion.

► Converted legacy database files with nursing home cost reports to a MySQL database.

► Developed an intuitive web interface to navigate and query nursing home info of three states.