Information Systems Technology
Technical Biography
Dr. Roger I. KhazanLincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Information Systems Technology Group
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Dr. Roger Khazan earned S.M. (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees from MIT in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. While a graduate student, Roger conducted research in the area of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms and systems, with a specific focus on multi-party communication protocols and applications that exhibit high performance, availability, reliability, and scalability characteristics.
Prior to MIT, Roger earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Brandeis University in 1996, with two majors, Computer Science and Mathematics; a minor in Economics, and two departmental awards, Highest Honors in Computer Science and Michtom Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science. Roger's undergraduate research was in the areas of data compression, parsing, and string matching.
Roger joined the Information Systems Technology Group at Lincoln Laboratory in August 2002, where he conducts research in the areas of network and communication security. In 2004, Roger and his team were awarded the Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Award for Best Paper in the Unclassified Technical Program. One of Roger's current research interests is in secure, efficient, and usable cryptographic key distribution, communications, and networking in mobile, disadvantaged environments, such as airborne and terrestrial on-the-move networks.
Roger is a program committee member of the Lincoln Laboratory’s annual Communications and Networking Workshop and a chair of the workshop’s Cyber Defense track. Roger regularly supervises M.Eng. and summer students; he is approved by MIT EECS to supervise master's theses and undergraduate research projects. He is also a member of the Lincoln Scholar Program committee. As an active participant in the Computer Science research community, Roger serves as a committee member for a number of academic conferences, such as the IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems (DPDNS), the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) and, in the past, the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2003 and 2004. He is also a member of Sigma Xi. In addition to Computer Science, Roger is interested in Management. He completed a minor program in Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management during his graduate studies and keeps up his proficiency through regular management training and practice.
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