Associate Professor of Computer Science

Phone: (804) 287-6671
Fax: (804) 287-6444
Email: dszajda at richmond dot edu
Office: 219 Jepson Hall

Areas of Interest

Attend the 2008 Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security!

Research

Current Projects

• Ensuring Computation Integrity in Distributed Volunteer Computing Platforms

Projects on which I worked in the past

• PinPoint Spatial Location Protocols
• Cycle synchronization in synchronous communication networks
  Some of these efforts are joint work with former colleagues in the
  Deparment of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
• The Isotach Project in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia
• Spectral Multiplicity Theory

Selected Recent Publications

• D. Szajda, M. Pohl, , J. Owen, and B. Lawson, Toward a Practical Data Privacy Scheme for a Distributed Implementation of the Smith-Waterman Genome Sequence Comparison Algorithm, Proceedings of the 2006 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2006), pages 253-265, San Diego, CA, February 2006.
  
• D. Szajda, B. Lawson, and J. Owen, Toward An Optimal Redundancy Strategy for Distributed Computations, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2005), Boston, MA, September 2005.
  
• D. Szajda, J. Owen, B. Lawson, A. Charlesworth, and E. Kenney, An Alternate Multiplicity-2 Task Assignment Scheme for Distributed Computations. In Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS 05) in conjunction with The 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 05), pages 59-65, Las Vegas, NV, June 2005.
  
• D. Szajda, B. Lawson, and J. Owen, Hardening functions for large-scale distributed computations, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pages 216-224, Berkeley, CA, May 2003.
  
• D. Szajda, Absolute Continuity of a class of unitary operators, Houston Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2001, pages 189-201.

Professional Activities

• 2008 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2008, (General Chair)
• 2007 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA, (Program Commitee, Steering Group, Publications Chair)
• 2007 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 25-29, 2007, Toronto, CA, (Program Committee - Security Track)
• 2006 Usenix Security Symposium, August 2007, Vancouver, BC, (Works-in-Progress Chair)
• 2006 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA, (Publications Chair)
• 2005 ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2007, San Diego, CA, (Publications Chair)

Teaching

Current Courses

• Math 211: Calculus I
• Core Course
• Systems Seminar

Past Courses

• CS 315: Algorithms (Spring 2005)
• CS 315: Algorithms (Fall 2004)
• CS 395: Computer Security (Fall 2004)
• CS 315: Algorithms (Fall 2003)
• CS 150: Introduction to Computing (Fall 2003)
• CS 332: Computer Networks (Spring 2003)
• CS 315: Algorithms (Spring 2003)
• Wireless Networks Seminar (Spring 2003)
• CS 150: Introduction to Computing (Fall 2002)
• CS 395: Computer Security (Fall 2002)
• CS 150: Introduction to Computing (Spring 2002)
• CS 332: Computer Networks (Spring 2002)
• CS 150: Introduction to Computing (Fall 2001)

Math and Computer Science Department Events

• Department of Math and Computer Science Colloquium Page