Jeremy Sussman

9138K Regents Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619) 550-9515
jsussman@cs.ucsd.edu
http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~jsussman

Research Interests

Fault tolerance/distributed systems: emphasis on group-based programming; tolerating system partition; optimism; intrusion tolerance; security; and software engineering.

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science (Expected Summer, 1999)
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla California
Dissertation Topic: Application Support for Wide-Area-Network Applications
Advisor: Dr. Keith Marzullo

M.S. Computer Science (December 1994)
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Computer science comprehensive examination passed with distinction.

B.A Computer Science, Cum Laude (June 1990).
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Thesis: "Graphic Image Manipulation and Simple Picture Matting on the Silicon Graphics Iris".

Experience

QUALCOMM
Engineering Intern
November 1997-present

• Fault Tolerance Project team lead. Goals of project include increasing the knowledge and improving the methodology used by Qualcomm in the area of fault tolerance and high availability through documentation and the creation of software displaying and explaining classical fault tolerance protocols. Duties include research, documentation, design and implementation of software, and management of two interns.
• Build System designer. Goal of project is to develop a build and configuration management system that can be used to develop software independent of the development platform. Platforms handled include UNIX, WinNT, Win95, VxWorks (embedded system platform). Duties include design, implementation, documentation, and user education.

SEER Technologies
Software Developer / Designer / Researcher
February 1991-November 1997

• Repository Engine developer. Lead effort to extend CASE tool repository into client-server, self-generating, object-based repository. Designed and implemented concurrency control mechanism, version control mechanism, subscribe-publish event handling mechanism, reflective capabilities for meta-modeling, and bootstrap process. Researched United Modeling Language (UML) for industry standard compatible front end. Duties included design, implementation, documentation, user education and research.
• CASE tool developer. Created "Report Painter", second generation report tool; cluster analysis module for matrix tool; scanner and menu builder for code generation tool. Duties included design and implementation.

Publications

Sussman, J. and Marzullo, K. The Bancomat Problem: An Example of Resource Allocation in a Partitionable Asynchronous System. In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC '98), Andros, Greece, September 1998, pages 362-377.

Namprempre, C., Sussman, J., and Marzullo, K. Implementing Causal Logging using OrbixWeb Interception. UCSD CSE Technical Report CS98-606, November 1998.

Franklin, L., Marzullo, K., Namprempre, C., Sussman, J., Krishnamurthy, R., Lin M.-J. and Ricciardi, A. Combining Optimism and Intrusion Detection. UCSD CSE Technical Report CS98-605, October 1998.

Sussman, J. and Marzullo, K. Comparing primary-backup and state machines for crash failures. (Short Abstract) In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 96), Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 1996, p. 90.

Presentations

"Using Optimism to Tolerate Intrusion and Partitioning", at DARPA ITO Graduate Student Workshop'98, Rosslyn, Virginia, July 27 – 29, 1998.

Projects

The Serrano Project. Goal is to provide a means to existing (and new) distributed systems intrusion tolerant and fault tolerant. Our approach is based on, among other things, an optimistic wrapper service for CORBA that we call COPE.

MOSHE. An extension to the CONGRESS membership service which provides extended virtual synchrony. Developed with the Transis group at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (Visited there in June 1997)

References

• Available upon request.

Last updated 5 November, 1998.

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