Michael Collins

Current

• Adjunct Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University
• Chief Scientist at RedJack

Past

• Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (SEI/CERT)
• Systems Scientist at Elefon, Incorporated
• Visiting Research Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University (CIT/ICES)

• Consultant at Transamerica

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Michael Collins’s Summary

Applied research with comprehensive experience in the end to end design of large scale data capture and analysis systems. Specialties include system reliability and availability, and traffic analysis. Interested in challenging problems in system design and analysis.

Michael Collins’s Specialties:

System design, requirements and specification. Numerical analysis. System reliability and performance constraints.

Michael Collins’s Experience

• Adjunct Faculty

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Chief Scientist

  RedJack

  (Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Researcher

  Carnegie Mellon University (SEI/CERT)

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2001 — June 2008 (7 years 1 month)

  Researcher in network and systems security, concentrating on developing tools, systems and approaches for understanding massive datasets.

• Systems Scientist

  Elefon, Incorporated

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 2 months)

  Developed highly reliable document conversion and brokering systems for collaborative environments.

• Visiting Research Engineer

  Carnegie Mellon University (CIT/ICES)

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  June 1997 — June 2001 (4 years 1 month)

  Researcher in engineering design and system development, focusing on artifact design and collaboration in engineering environments.

• Consultant

  Transamerica

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  June 1994 — January 1995 (8 months)

  Database and office automation consultant. Developed lightweight applications for improving office efficiency, cutting down major process times by several weeks per month.

Michael Collins’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  PhD , Electrical Engineering , 2003 — 2008

  PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering under Michael K. Reiter; thesis title: "A Protocol Graph Based Anomaly Detection System"

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Master's , Electrical Engineering , 2000 — 2002

  Focused on engineering design and expert systems. Master's Thesis was on automated configuration systems.

  Activities and Societies:

  Eta Kappa Nu

• Carnegie Mellon University

  BS , Physics, Minors in Math and Engineering , 1992 — 1997

  Additional minors in engineering and mathematics. Final year was part-time.

Additional Information

Michael Collins’s Groups:

•    Carnegie Mellon Alumni
•    Information Security Community
•    SecurityMetrics
•    DC Tech Events Readers
•    CERT Alumni
•    Packet Capture

Michael Collins’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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