Alden Jackson
Alden Jackson
Alden Jackson
Alden Jackson
Research Interests
- Software-defined network architecture
- Network security
Education
- PhD, University of Delaware
Biography
Alden Jackson is an associate clinical professor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is interested in software-defined network architecture, network security, reliability and robustness of massively distributed systems, network protocol design and implementation, and network traffic analysis and monitoring.
Before joining Northeastern, Jackson was a senior architect at Akamai Technologies. He was responsible for improving the scalability and reliability of the systems that safely distributed customer and system configuration metadata in Akamai’s production network to over 200,000 servers worldwide. Before he worked with Akamai, Jackson was a senior network scientist at BBN Technologies. He also worked at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was a principal investigator on US Government (DARPA, DHS HSARPA, AFOSR, DOE) and commercially funded R&D projects in the areas of attack traceback, network traffic analysis and monitoring, network security, active networking, software-defined network architecture, high-speed network architecture, satellite packet switching, and optical network control plane.
Research Interests
- Software-defined network architecture
- Network security
Education
- PhD, University of Delaware
Biography
Alden Jackson is an associate clinical professor at Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is interested in software-defined network architecture, network security, reliability and robustness of massively distributed systems, network protocol design and implementation, and network traffic analysis and monitoring.
Before joining Northeastern, Jackson was a senior architect at Akamai Technologies. He was responsible for improving the scalability and reliability of the systems that safely distributed customer and system configuration metadata in Akamai’s production network to over 200,000 servers worldwide. Before he worked with Akamai, Jackson was a senior network scientist at BBN Technologies. He also worked at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was a principal investigator on US Government (DARPA, DHS HSARPA, AFOSR, DOE) and commercially funded R&D projects in the areas of attack traceback, network traffic analysis and monitoring, network security, active networking, software-defined network architecture, high-speed network architecture, satellite packet switching, and optical network control plane.
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Boston, MA 02115
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