Christopher T. Lesniewski-Laas
                         http://lesniewski.org/
                          ctl at mit dot edu 
                          Updated March 2008.

Home Address                                    Work Address
112 Hancock Street                              32 Vassar Street 32-G996
Somerville, MA 02144                            Cambridge, MA 02139
                                                +1 617 253 0004

Experience
  MIT CSAIL, Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems
  2001 - Present
  Cambridge, MA
     * Thesis advisor: M. Frans Kaashoek.
     * Research focus: computer systems, especially security of
       large-scale decentralized Internet systems.
     * Structured overlay routing using a social network to provide
       robustness against pseudonym attacks.
     * UIA: decentralized routing and naming in a zero-configuration,
       secure, ad-hoc network.
     * Alpaca: secure and flexible PKI based on a higher-order logical
       framework.
     * Other work: distributed and dynamic compact routing for the
       Internet; coroutine-based asynchronous I/O programming framework;
       game theory, economics, mechanism design, and reputation in
       decentralized systems; distributed Web caching; RSA acceleration
       using a commodity GPU.
     * Master's thesis: SSL Splitting and Barnraising: Cooperative
       Caching with Authenticity Guarantees.
     * Instructor, Computer Systems Engineering (6.033), 2003-2005.

  Permabit
  2001
  Cambridge, MA
     * Developed highly available, robust, secure, scalable data storage
       system based on commodity hardware.

  Microsoft Research
  2000
  Redmond, WA
     * Cryptographic protocol design for the I-Campus Secure
       Successor to the MIT Card project.

  SensAble Technologies, Inc.
  1999
  Cambridge, MA
     * R&D: hardware and software development for the PHANToM haptic
       interface.

  MIT AI Lab, Mathematics and Computation
  1998
  Cambridge, MA
     * Studied randomly generated amorphous computers.
       Advisors: Hal Abelson, Gerry Sussman.

Education
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  1997 - Present
  Cambridge, MA
     * Doctoral program in Computer Science, 2003 - present.
     * M. Eng. and B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
       June 2003.
     * B.S. Mathematics (Minor in Physics), June 2001.
     * 4.9 / 5.0 undergrad GPA, 5.0 / 5.0 grad GPA.
     * Topics: algorithms, complexity, compilers, digital design,
       computer architecture, cryptography, software design, acoustics,
       probability, algebra, quantum+statistical physics, general
       relativity, economics.

  Cohasset High School
  1992 - 1997
  Cohasset, MA
     * Valedictorian, early graduation, Harvard Extension School,
       Center for Talented Youth (CTY).

Societies
     * MIT Student Information Processing Board (former Chair)
     * Eta Kappa Nu (editor of UG6, 2000-2001)
     * Phi Beta Kappa

Skills
     * Languages: Python, Haskell, C, C++ STL, Java, Perl, Javascript,
       LISP, Matlab, VHDL, Postscript, various assembly, SQL, XML, HTML,
       CSS, LaTeX, GLSL, LF, Intercal, French, Mandarin Chinese
     * Unix development: Make, GCC, Subversion, svk, CVS, VIM, X11,
       testsuites, Debian, Solaris, etc.
     * Network/system programming: TCP/IP, sockets, SSL/TLS, Kerberos,
       asynchronous, threads, load balancing, scheduling, consistency,
       kernels, compilers, JIT, VMM, RDBMS, DB-driven web apps, etc.
     * Digital design: Xilinx FPGA development tools, use of
       oscilloscope, logic analyzer, datasheets, etc.
     * Hobbies: bicycling, cooking, karate, SCUBA, travel, DDR,
       skydiving, urban subterranean exploration.