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                           Jacob A. Strauss
                            jastr@mit.edu
                            (617) 596-5662

   Work Address                                     Home Address
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32 Vassar St                                          1055 South St
Room 32-G978                                    Roslindale MA 02131 
Cambridge MA 02139                                  

EDUCATION
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology                   Cambridge, MA
  Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    - September 2002
    - Thesis: Choosing Internet Paths with High Bulk Transfer Capacity

  S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    - June 2001
    - Minor in Physics

EXPERIENCE
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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    (formerly MIT Laboratory for Computer Science)
                                                        Cambridge, MA
 - Summer 2001 -- present
 - Graduate Student in the Parallel and Distributed Operating
   Systems Group.
 - Advisor: Frans Kaashoek
 - Current research:
   Unmanaged Internet Architecture:  Naming and connectivity for
   personal devices
 - Past research:
   Proximity routing in overlay networks.
   Estimating spare network capacity between end hosts.

Nokia Research Center Cambridge                         Cambridge, MA
 - Summer 2006 -- Fall 2006, Spring 2007 -- present
 - Introduction methods for personal devices as part of the MyNet
   project

ICSI Center for Internet Research                       Berkeley, CA
 - Summer 2003
 - Characterizing sources of congestion in long lived TCP flows.

Vanu Inc.                                               Cambridge, MA
 - Summer 2000, January 2001
 - Wrote a software color NTSC decoder.  Ported StrongARM Linux kernel
   profiling tools.

MIT Center for Space Research                           Cambridge, MA
 - Spring 1998 -- Fall 1999
 - FPGA and software design for the HETE-2 satellite project's
   primary groundstation
 
NSF Young Scholars Program at Northeastern University   Boston, MA
 - Summer 1996
 - Researched a traveler information system to provide directions
   around Greater Boston.

Enterprise Leasing of New England                       Needham, MA
 - Spring 1996 -- Summer 1997
 - Designed and operated a database, invoicing, and financial
   reporting system for a lease financing company.

TEACHING
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MIT EECS Department                                     Cambridge, MA
 - Spring 2006, Fall 2007
   Instructor-G for 6.001 (Structure and Interpretation of Computer
   Programs).  Instructor for two recitation sections of the EECS 
   department's comprehensive introductory course.

 - January 2007
   Instructor for 6.090 (Building Programming Experience).
   Lecturer for a short introductory computer science course for
   students with minimal programming background.

 - Spring 2004
 - Teaching Assistant for 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering)
   Duties included teaching tutorials, writing and grading
   assignments.

 - Fall 2002
 - Teaching Assistant for 6.829 (Computer Networks) 
   Duties included teaching tutorials, writing and grading
   assignments, and one guest lecture.

 - Spring 2001
 - Teaching Assistant for 6.001 (Structure and Interpretation of
   Computer Programs).  Duties included teaching several weekly
   tutorials, tutoring, grading, and development of the course's
   online problem set and project system.

 - 6.001 Head Lab Assistant: Summer 1999 -- Fall 2000
 - 6.001 Lab Assistant: Spring 1998 -- Spring 1999
 - Hired and supervised a team of 15 Lab Assistants for "Structure
   and Interpretation of Computer Programs."  Scheduled lab assignments,
   maintained lab workstations and servers, tutored students on problem sets
   and class projects.

PUBLICATIONS
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An Offline Foundation for Online Accountable Pseudonyms.
  Bryan Ford and Jacob Strauss.  In the Proceedings of 
  the First International Workshop on Social Network 
  Systems (SocialNets 2008), Glasgow, Scotland, April 2008.

Mynet: A Platform for Secure P2P Personal and Social Network Services.
  D.N. Kalofonos, Z. Antoniou, F.D. Reynolds, M. Van-Kleek, J. Strauss,
  and P. Wisner.  In the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Intl. Conference on
  Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'08), Hong Kong,
  March 2008.

Alpaca: Extensible Authorization for Distributed Services.
  Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Robert Morris, 
  and M. Frans Kaashoek. In the Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference
  on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-2007), Alexandria, VA, 
  October 2007.

Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices.
  Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Sean Rhea, 
  Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris.   In the Proceedings of the 7th
  USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
  (OSDI '06), Seattle, Washington, November 2006.

User-Relative Names for Globally Connected Personal Devices.
  Bryan Ford, Jacob Strauss, Chris Lesniewski-Laas, Sean Rhea, 
  Frans Kaashoek, and Robert Morris.  In the Proceedings of the 
  5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS06), 
  Santa Barbara, CA, February 2006. 

MultiQ: Automated Detection of Multiple Bottleneck Capacities Along a Path.
  Sachin Katti, Dina Katabi, Charles Blake, Eddie Kohler, and Jacob Strauss.
  In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference '04,
  Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2004.

A Measurement Study of Available Bandwidth Estimation Tools. 
  Jacob Strauss, Dina Katabi, and Frans Kaashoek.
  In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement
  Conference '03, Miami, Florida, October 2003.

ACTIVITIES
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President, MIT Concert Band.  2000--2001.
Flute: MIT Concert Band, Musical Theater Guild, Gilbert and Sullivan Players.