Technical Biography

Ruben E. Brown
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
voice: 781-981-2844
fax: 781-981-0186
email: rebrown@ll.mit.edu

Ruben E. Brown is an associate staff scientist in the Information Systems Technology Group and pursues an active research and engineering role in a broad range of programs in information assurance and evaluations of information assurance systems. Mr. Brown received a S.B. from MIT in Computer Science and Engineering in 1999 and a M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2001.

From 2001 to 2003 he worked at the InCert Software Corporation developing high efficiency binary and byte code instrumentation technologies to provide rapid root cause of failure determination through detailed control flow reconstruction in enterprise software systems. After the successful acquisition of InCert by Geodesic Systems, Mr. Brown joined the Information Systems Technology Group at Lincoln Laboratory. During this time he worked on host based intrusion prevention and malware analysis systems, including the AWE tool-suite. The AWE system leveraged integrated static and dynamic analysis techniques to improve the malicious software analysis process.

In mid-2006 Mr. Brown joined the Space Situational Awareness Group to work on the core orbital dynamics packages and analyst tools supporting satellite tracking operations. This developed into a general role directing the design and development of hardware and software architectures that support the Lexington Space Situational Awareness Center. The software and systems developed during this work continue to support multiple net centric efforts in the Aerospace division.

At the beginning of 2009 Mr. Brown returned to the Information Systems Technology Group to continue fundamental work in the design and protection of network environments. He is currently interested in modeling and simulation of "dirty" networks, e.g. those containing malicious artifacts to provide development and evaluation environments for the next generation of analytic, network situational awareness and defensive technologies.

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