Curriculum Vitae 2009

Education

• MS in Computer Science from San Francisco State University 1995
• BA in Sociology from San Francisco State University 1990

Professional Experience

• Network Engineer : NERSC, 2007-present
• Computer Scientist : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2003-2007
• Computer Security Specialist : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2006-2007
• Research Scientist : University of Amsterdam (AIR group), 2002-2003
• Group Leader (Acting) : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000-2002
• Computer Systems Engineer: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1995-2000
• Student Researcher: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1992-1995
• Computer Science Lab Manager: SFSU 1990-1992

Narrative

Jason Lee is a Computer Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He works in the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in the Networking Group. Jason has worked on various projects in his 17 years at LBL. These range from a Distributed Parallel Storage System to his work on Grid Architecture in the GGF to his current work on BRO, an intrusion detection system. Some of his more recent work has involved the anonymization of network traffic for release into the public domain as part of the PREDiCT project. Jason was involved in the early QoS network tests with Van Jacobson back in 1994, some of the first gigabit testbeds (MAGIC 1993, BAGNet 1995, NTONC 97) and worked with the AIR group in the Netherlands on 10 Gbps transatlantic links. More recently he has been heading up the US networking side of Daya Bay, a neutrino-oscillation experiment in China. Jason also enjoys keeping NERSC (one of DOE's Supercomputing Centers) connected to the world.

Related Technologies

Performing the above research has led to deep working knowledge of networking (TCP/UDP/IP), many networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, NTP, etc.) and many of the higher level abstractions that use it (i.e. Web Services). This, in turn has lead to an understanding of the applications that drive it like RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL), several programming languages (Python, C, Java, Perl), Unix operating systems and a host of software engineering methodologies and tools (e.g. UML, SVN, autoconf). Jason has become very adept at administrating various flavors of *NIX over the years (AIX, TrueUnix, BSD, Linux) and has had occasion to hack on a few kernels (web100) as part of his network testing. Jason currently spend most of his time herding bits in support of High Performance Computing (HPC) at NERSC.

Research Interests

Jason's current research interests include: high-performance networking and network protocols; distributed system performance monitoring and analysis; network tuning issues; characterization of WAN/LAN network traffic and cyber security and intrusion detection systems.

Selected Publications

A full list of publications can be found at: http://acs.lbl.gov/~jason/publications.html

• Matthias Vallentin, Robin Sommer, Jason Lee, Craig Leres, Vern Paxson, Brian Tierney, The NIDS Cluster: Scalable, Stateful Network Intrusion Detection on Commodity Hardware , Proceedings of the Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection , Queensland, Australia, September 2007. LBNL-63278
• C. Guok, D. Robertson, M. Thompson, J. Lee, B. Tierney and William Johnston, Intra and Interdomain Circuit Provisioning Using the OSCARS Reservation System, accepted for GridNETS 2006 conference. LBNL-60373
• Ruoming Pang, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, Jason Lee. The Devil and Packet Trace Anonymization. ACM Computer Communication Review, 36(1), January 2006. LBNL-57630
• Ruoming Pang, Mark Allman, Mike Bennett, Jason Lee, Vern Paxson, Brian Tierney. A First Look at Modern Enterprise Traffic. ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference, October 2005.
• Daniel K. Gunter, Keith R. Jackson, David E. Konerding, Jason R. Lee and Brian L. Tierney, Essential Grid Workflow Monitoring Elements , The 2005 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'05) LBNL-57428.
• Antony Antony, Johan Blom, Cees de Laat, Jason Lee, "Exploring practical limitations of TCP over TransAtlantic networks", High-Speed Networks and Services for Data-Intensive Grids: the DataTAG Project, special issue, Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 21 issue 4 (2005). [technical report]
• Ian Foster et al The Grid2003 Production Grid: Principles and Practice. HPDC 2004:
• Brian L. Tierney, Tom Dunigan, Jason R. Lee, Dan Gunter and Martin Stoufer, Improving Distributed Application Performance Using TCP Instrumentation , LBNL report 52590.
• Antony Antony, Johan Blom, Cees de Laat, Jason Lee, Wim Sjouw, "Microscopic Examination of TCP Flows Over Transatlantic Links", iGrid2002 special issue, Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 19 issue 6 (2003). FGCS. [pdf]
• Wim Sjouw, Antony Antony, Johan Blom, Cees de Laat and Jason Lee, TCP Behaviour On Transatlantic Lambda's, Grid Computing: First European Across Grids Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 13-14, 2004
• D. Gunter, B. Tierney, K. Jackson, J. Lee, M. Stoufer, "Dynamic Monitoring of High-Performance Distributed Applications" , Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, HPDC-11, July 2002, LBNL-49698.
• J. Lee, D. Gunter, M. Stoufer, B. Tierney, " Monitoring Data Archives for Grid Environments", Proceeding of IEEE Supercomputing 2002 Conference, Nov. 2002, LBNL-50216.
• B. Allcock, Foster, I., Nefedova, V., Chervenak, A., Deelman, E., Kesselman, C., Sim, A., Shoshani, A., Lee, J., Drach, B., Williams, D. "High-Performance Remote Access to Climate Simulation Data: A Challenge Problem for Data Grid Technologies " Proceeding of the IEEE Supercomputing 2001 Conference, Nov. 2001.
• J. Lee, D. Gunter, B. Tierney, W. Allock, J. Bester, J. Bresnahan, S. Tecke Applied Techniques for High Bandwidth Data Transfers across Wide Area Networks Sept 2001, LBNL-46269, CHEP01 Beijing China.
• B. Tierney, D. Gunter, J. Lee, M. Stoufer, "Enabling Network-Aware Applications" , Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), August 2001, LBNL-47611.
• D. Agarwal, B. Tierney, D. Gunter, J. Lee, and W. Johnston, ``Network Aware High-Performance Distributed Applications,''Proceedings of the Workshop on New Visions for Large-Scale Networks: Research and Applications, Vienna, VA (March 2001). (LBNL Technical Report Number LBNL-47518).
• W. Bethel, S. Campbell, E. Dart, J. Lee, S. A. Smith, K. Stockinger, B. Tierney, K. Wu., Interactive Analysis of Large Network Data Collections Using Query-Driven Visualization, LBNL-59166
  
• W. Bethel, Tierney, B., Lee, J., Gunter, D., Lau, S., "Using High-Speed WANs and Network Data Caches to Enable Remote and Distributed Visualization", Proceeding of the IEEE Supercomputing 2000 Conference, Nov. 2000. LBNL-45365.