(A Picture of Me)Justin Balthrop
Hi. I'm a former graduate student from the Adaptive Computation Lab at the University of New Mexico. While at UNM, I did research with Stephanie Forrest and received a Master's degree in Computer Science. Currently, I am a senior software engineer at a social networking startup called Geni.com in Hollywood, CA.

Research

The majority of the research I did was in the area of Computer Security. I designed and implemented a system called RIOT (Responsive I/O Throttle). RIOT is a system that mitigates network epidemics and attacks through active responses and anomaly detection. Many of RIOT's mechanisms were inspired by the immune system. For more information, read my thesis, or you can download the code.

I also worked on a project with Mark Newman, Matt Williamson and Stephanie Forrest in the area of computer viruses. We studied the various networks that computer viruses spread over in order to find better strategies for preventing and slowing their spread.

Publications

Here is a list of my publications:
  1. "RIOT: A Responsive System for Mitigating Computer Network Epidemics and Attacks." J. Balthrop. Master's Thesis, Univesity of New Mexico, (2005). [PDF]

  2. "Adaptive Radio: Acheiving Consensus Using Negative Preferences." D. L. Chao, J. Balthrop, and S. Forrest. ACM Group 2005 (in press). [PDF]

  3. "A Machine Learning Evaluation of an Artificial Immune System." M. Glickman, J. Balthrop and S. Forrest. Evolutionary Computation 13(2), MIT Press (2005).

  4. "Computation in the Wild." S. Forrest, J. Balthrop, M. Glickman and D. Ackley. The Internet as a Large-Scale Complex System, K. Park and W. Willins (eds): Oxford University Press (2005). [PDF]

  5. "Technological Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses." J. Balthrop, S. Forrest, M. E. J. Newman, and M. Williamson. Science 304, 527-529 (2004). [Full Text]

  6. "Email Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses." M. E. J. Newman, S. Forrest, and J. Balthrop, Phys. Rev. E 66, 035101 (2002). [PDF]

  7. "Coverage and Generalization in an Artificial Immune System." J. Balthrop, F. Esponda, S. Forrest and M. Glickman. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Morgan Kaufmann. New York, pp. 3-10 (2002). [PDF]

  8. "Revisiting LISYS: Parameters and Normal Behavior." J. Balthrop, S. Forrest, and M. Glickman. Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation , (2002). [PDF]