CYBER SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Roger I. Khazan
Dr. Roger I. Khazan
Senior Staff
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cyber Systems and Technologies
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9108
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Dr. Roger Khazan joined the Cyber Systems and Technology Group at Lincoln Laboratory in August 2002, where he leads programs and conducts research in the areas of systems and communication security. His expertise and research interests lie in the broad areas of usable security, key management and distribution, and applied cryptography, with a specific focus on disadvantaged, tactical environments and embedded devices. Examples of his current projects include developing a practical solution for securing Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS); designing a security architecture for next-generation protected tactical satellites; and inventing usable and scalable protocols for securing future tactical applications.
In 2004, Dr. Khazan and his team were awarded the Fred W. Ellersick MILCOM Award for Best Paper in the Unclassified Technical Program; in 2008, his paper was nominated for the MILCOM’s 2008 Best Paper award, and in 2010 a paper that Dr. Khazan co-authored won the Best Paper award at the IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications. Recently, his team was selected by Lincoln Laboratory as a recipient of a 2011-2012 Team Award. Also, one of his projects won a 2012 R&D 100 Award, a prestigious, international award that recognizes the 100 most technologically significant innovations introduced during the previous year.
Dr. Khazan is the Chair of the Lincoln Laboratory's Cyber and Netcentric Workshop – an annual event for government agencies, military, research labs, and industry to discuss lessons learned, current trends, technical challenges, and the road ahead. He also serves as a committee member for a number of academic conferences, such as MILCOM, Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 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). He is approved by MIT EECS to supervise master's theses and regularly supervises master’s and summer students. He is also a member of ACM, AFCEA, IACR, and Sigma Xi.
Dr. 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, he 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, Dr. Khazan 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. His undergraduate research was in the areas of data compression, parsing, and string matching.
In addition to Computer Science and Cyber Security, Dr. Khazan 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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