Brett C. Tjaden
Professor
Department of Computer Science
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia, 22807
(540) 568-6288
tjadenbc@jmu.edu
https://users.cs.jmu.edu/tjadenbc/web/

Curriculum Vitae:

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Virginia, May, 1997
Dissertation: "A Method for Examining Cryptographic Protocols"
Advisor: William A. Wulf

B.S. in Independent Study (C.S.), Haverford College, May, 1991
Thesis: "The Chromatic Polynomial of the Truncated Icosahedron"
Advisor: Steven Lindell

Employment

Professor, Department of Computer Science, James Madison University, September, 2014 - present.

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, James Madison University, September, 2005 - August, 2014.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, James Madison University, September, 2002 - August, 2005.

Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, September, 1998 - August, 2002.

Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, May, 1997 - May, 1998.

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, September, 1993 - May, 1997.

Computer Specialist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, June, 1991 - August, 1993.

Grants

Brett Tjaden, M. Hossain Heydayi, and Xunhua Wang, "Cyber Defense Boot Camp for CyberPatriot Coaches”, NSF GenCyber Program, $92,791.63, April 28, 2016 - April 28, 2017.

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Xunhua Wang, "Cyber Defense Boot Camp for High School Technology Teachers”, NSF GenCyber Program, $99,180.82, April 23, 2016 - April 23, 2017.

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Xunhua Wang, "Cyber Defense Boot Camp for Virginia High School Technology Teachers”, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, $100,000, July 27, 2015 - July 31, 2015.

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Xunhua Wang, "A Cyber Defense Boot Camp for High School Technology Teachers”, NSF GenCyber Program, $99,990, May 15, 2015 - April 30, 2016.

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Xunhua Wang, Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) - FY 13, $71,403.00, September 20, 2013 - September 19, 2014.

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Xunhua Wang, "A Cyber Defense Boot Camp for High School Technology Teachers", Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) - FY 12, $141,292, September 3, 2012 - December 10, 2013.

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Florian Buchholz, Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) - FY 11, $31,600.67, September 8, 2010 - December 7, 2011.

Brett Tjaden and M. Hossain Heydari, "A Cyber Defense Competition for Recruiting Under-Represented Students into STEM Programs", Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance, $24,456.27, April, 2009 - October, 2009.

Brett Tjaden and M. Hossain Heydari, "Hosting a Cyber Defense Competition", Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance, $35,971.27, April, 2008 - September, 2008.

Brett Tjaden, "INBOUNDS: The Integrated Network-Based Ohio University Network Detective Service", Ohio University (subcontract of NSF grant), $105,118, September, 2002 - August, 2004.

Brett Tjaden, Shawn Ostermann, and Lonnie Welch, "INBOUNDS: The Integrated Network-Based Ohio University Network Detective Service", National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research Division, $292,848, October, 2001 - September, 2004.

Lonnie Welch, Barbara Pfarr, and Brett Tjaden, "Adaptive Management of Computing and Network Resources for Real-Time Sensor Webs", NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology Program, $621,942, September, 2000 - August, 2002.

Books

Brett Tjaden, "Fundamentals of Secure Computer Systems", Franklin Beedle and Associates, August, 2003.

Selected Publications

M. Hossain Heydari, Brett Tjaden, and Xunhua Wang, "A Cyber Defense Boot Camp for High School Technology Teachers" Seventh Annual Southeastern Cyber Security Summit, Huntsville, Alabama, June 3-4, 2015.

Robert Floodeen, John Haller, and Brett Tjaden, "Identifying a Shared Mental Model Among Incident Responders", Seventh International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics, Nuernberg, Germany, March 12-14, 2013.

Brett Tjaden and Robert Floodeen, "Communication Among Incident Responders - A Study", 46th Annual IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, October 15-18, 2012.

Brett Tjaden, "Malware", McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2012 Edition.

Brett Tjaden and Robert Floodeen, "Cyber Defense", McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2011 Edition.

Xunhua Wang, Philip Huff, and Brett Tjaden, "Improving the Efficiency of Capture-resistant Biometric Authentication based on Set Intersection", Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2008), Anaheim, California, December 8-12, 2008.

Florian Buchholz and Brett Tjaden, "A Brief Study of Time", Seventh Annual Digital Forensics Research Workshop (DFRWS 2007), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2007.

Brian Tjaden and Brett Tjaden, "Training Students to Administer and Defend Computer Networks and Systems", Eleventh Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2006), Bologna, Italy, June 26-28, 2006.

Manikantan Ramadas, Shawn Ostermann, and Brett Tjaden, "Detecting Anomalous Network Traffic with Self-Organizing Maps", Sixth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 8-10, 2003.

Hong Chen, Brett Tjaden, Lonnie Welch, Carl Bruggeman, Lu Tong, Barbara Pfarr, "Monitoring Network QoS in a Dynamic Real-Time System", Tenth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2002), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 15-16, 2002.

Toni Marinucci, Anbuselvan Neelamegam, Brett Tjaden, Lu Tong, Lonnie Welch, Brian Goldman, Greg Greer, Deepak Kaul, Barbara Pfarr, "SWARM: Sensor Web Adaptive Resource Manager", Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC 2001), College Park, Maryland, August 28-30, 2001.

Lu Tong, Carl Bruggeman, Brett Tjaden, Hong Chen, and Lonnie R. Welch, "Specification and Modeling of Network Resources in Dynamic, Distributed Real-time System", 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2001), Dallas, Texas, August 8-10, 2001.

Ravindra Balupari, Brett Tjaden, Shawn Ostermann, Marina Bykova, and Aaron Mitchell, "Real-Time Network-based Anomaly Intrusion Detection", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, Special Issue: Real Time Security, Volume 4, Number 2, June, 2001.

Marina Bykova, Shawn Ostermann, Brett Tjaden, "Detecting Network Intrusions via a Statistical Analysis of Network Packet Characteristics", 33rd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST 2001), Ohio University, March 18-20, 2001.

Brett Tjaden, Lonnie Welch, Shawn Ostermann, David Chelberg, Ravindra Balupari, Marina Bykova, Aaron Mitchell, and Lu Tong, "SECURE-RM: Security and Resource Management for Dynamic Real-Time Systems", Real-time System Security Minisymposium, Southern Conference on Computing (SCC 2000), The University of Southern Mississippi, October 26-28, 2000.

Ryan Detter, Lonnie Welch, Barbara Pfarr, Brett Tjaden, and Eui-Nam Huh, "Adaptive Management of Computing and Network Resources for Spacecraft Systems", 3rd annual Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Devices and Technologies International Conference (MAPLD 2000), The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory, September 26-28, 2000.

Brett C. Tjaden, Lonnie R. Welch, Shawn D. Ostermann, David Chelberg, Michael Masters, Paul Werme, David Marlow, Philip Irey IV, Brett Chapell, Ravindra Balupari, Marina Bykova, Aaron Mitchell, Denis Lissitsyn, Lu Tong, "INBOUNDS: The Integrated Network-Based Ohio University Network Detective Service", 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2000) and 6th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2000), Orlando, Florida, July 23-26, 2000.

Kazi M. Jahirul Islam, Behrooz A. Shirazi, Lonnie R. Welch, Brett C. Tjaden, Charles Cavanaugh, Shafqat Anwar, "Network Load Monitoring in Distributed Systems", International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, May 1-5, 2000.

Eui-Nam Huh, Lonnie R. Welch, Brett C. Tjaden, Behrooz A. Shirazi, and Charles Cavanaugh, "Accommodating QoS Prediction in an Adaptive Resource Management Framework", International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, May 1-5, 2000.

Miscellaneous

U.S. Citizen

Creator of the widely-popular Oracle of Bacon at Virginia website