Clay Shields [Animation]

    I used to be a graduate student here. Now I am going to be an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Purdue University, where I will also be associated with CERIAS studying network security issues.
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    I earned my PhD in computer engineering working with J.J. and his Coco group. My dissertation presented a hierarchical multicast routing protocol (HIP), showed how it could be made secure (KHIP), and showed how multicast can be used to provide anonymous communication in the Internet. Before that my master's thesis showed that the Core Based Tree protocol was incorrect, and corrected it with the Ordered Core Based Tree (OCBT)protocol.  I was fortunate enough to have gone through grad school with my geek friend Brian Levine, who has gone on to better things as an Assistant Professor at UMass
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    Though people may think that you have to work 87% of the time to be a grad student, in fact I worked hard to make time for play as well. I like to kayak, mountain bike, snow board and play volleyball. Since many of these things are not readily available in Indiana, I am learning to fly and earning my private pilot's license, which is pretty fun.