Ph.D. Candidate @ From January 2009 to July 2013 (4 years 7 months) Security Intern @ Publicly disclosed research: Client-Based Authentication Technology (CBAT). Published results in Digital Identity Management (DIM) workshop of ACM CCS, October 2011. Available at http://hms.isi.jhu.edu/index.php/people/12.
Performed research in secure digital identity and authentication methods. From May 2011 to August 2011 (4 months) Hillsboro, Oregon AreaSecurity Intern @ Conducted research in hardening web browsers and web-based transactions. From May 2010 to August 2010 (4 months) Hillsboro, Oregon AreaTeaching Assistant (TA) @ EN.600.443 “Security and Privacy”, Professor - Dr. Aviel D. Rubin, Johns Hopkins University.
Course projects on buffer overflows and web security. From August 2009 to December 2009 (5 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaProject Consultant @ EN.650.633 “Computer Security Architectures”, Professors - Dr. Gerald M. Masson and Dr. Jorge Vasconcelos, Johns Hopkins University.
Course projects with Atmel AVR AT90USB1287 microcontrollers. From January 2009 to May 2009 (5 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaSecurity Intern @ Publicly disclosed research: Views, a file system architecture for providing isolation between operating system components (e.g., users, groups, etc.). Available at http://hms.isi.jhu.edu/papers/Pagano-Peterson-Views-Full.pdf.
Performed security assessments of client environments.
Conducted research in software security and vulnerability analysis. From January 2008 to February 2009 (1 year 2 months) Baltimore, Maryland AreaInformation Technology Consultant, Network Technician @ Managed networks and provided wide range of IT operations for 15 clients in the greater Washington, DC area. From November 2005 to August 2007 (1 year 10 months) Gaithersburg, Maryland AreaPart-Time Intern @ Analyzed performance and efficiency of various data compression algorithms under diverse environments in Java and C++. From September 2000 to June 2001 (10 months) Laurel, Maryland Area
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science @ The Johns Hopkins University From 2009 to 2013 Master of Science (M.S.), Security Informatics @ The Johns Hopkins University From 2007 to 2009 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics @ The Johns Hopkins University From 2001 to 2004 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics @ The Johns Hopkins University From 2001 to 2004 Matthew Pagano is skilled in: Security, Computer Security, Java, Program Management, Networking, C++, Operating Systems, Information Security, Python, Network Security, Unix, Algorithms, Computer Science, Information Technology, Perl, Cryptography, Distributed Systems, LaTeX, Machine Learning
Websites:
http://cs.jhu.edu/~mpagano