John Solis
Graduate Student
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine

Introduction | Research Interests | Research Groups | Publications | Posters | Projects | Teaching Assistant/Work Experience | Slackware Musings


  Introduction
 


     I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, doing research in privacy and security with my advisor Dr. Gene Tsudik.

    I received my Bachelors of Science degree in 2004 from the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Dallas. After graduation I continued my studies in the joint Masters/Ph.D. program offered by the University of California, Irvine. I received my Masters of Science Degree in June 2006 with a concentration in Systems.

 


  Research Interests
 

  • Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks
  • Opportunistic Networks
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Computer and Network Security and Privacy
  • Mobile Device Security and Privacy
  


  Research Groups
 

 


  Publications
 

  • Karim El Defrawy, John Solis, Gene Tsudik. Leveraging Social Contacts for Message Confidentiality in Delay-Tolerant Networks 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2009), Seattle, Washington, July 20-24, 2009 [PDF]

  • John Solis, N. Asokan, Kari Kostianinen, Philip Ginzboorg, Joerg Ott. Controlling Resource Hogs in Mobile Delay-Tolerant Networks, Computer Communications (COMCOM) 2009. In Submission.

  • Michael Goodrich, Michael Sirivianos, John Solis, Claudio Soriente, Gene Tsudik, and Ersin Uzun. Audio Based Authentication, International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN) 2008

  • Maithili Narasimha, John Solis, and Gene Tsudik.. Privacy-Preserving Revocation Checking, International Journal of Information Security (IJIS) 2008

  • John Solis and Gene Tsudik. Simple and Flexible Revocation Checking with Privacy Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2006), June 2006 [PDF]

  • Michael T. Goodrich, Michael Sirivianos, John Solis, Gene Tsudik, and Ersin Uzun. Loud And Clear: Human Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio ICDCS 2006, July 2006 [PDF]
 


  Posters
 

  • Karim El Defrawy, John Solis, Gene Tsudik. Leveraging Social Contacts for Message Confidentiality in Delay-Tolerant Networks IEEE International Conference of Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), Orlando, Florida, October 19-22,2008 [PDF]
 


  Projects
 

 


  Teaching Assistant/Work Experience
 

  • Helsinki University of Technology Visiting Researcher -- May - Sept 2009
    I am currently a visiting researcher with the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Department of Communications and Networking (COMNET). I am working on a joint research project with Professor Joerg Ott and Nokia Research Center. We plan on investigating fragment authentication techniques for opportunistic networks.

  • NEC Europe Network Laboratory Intern -- Nov 2008 - March 2009
    During my internship with NEC Europe Ltd. Network Laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany I investigated security primitives for smart-card enabled devices. The first half of my internship involved developing smart-card access for the NEC Identity Brokerage system. The second half we investigated an implementation of a group signature primitive for JavaCard based smart-cards.

  • Nokia Research Center Intern -- June-Nov 2007
    This was a six month internship with NRC's Internet Core Technology Center Security Research group in Helsinki, Finland. During this time we investigated securing storage resources of nodes in Mobile Delay-Tolerant Networks. We showed that a small minority of malicious nodes can negatively impact delivery ratios of honest users and propose several techniques for mitigating this damage.

  • ICS H23 - Honors Introduction to Computer Science III -- Spring 2007

  • ICS 21 - Introduction to Computer Science 1 -- Fall 2006, Winter 2007