Michael Atighetchi

 

 

Education

 

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sep. 1997 - Feb. 1999

M.S. Computer Science

 

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Oct. 1994 - Sep. 1997, May 1999 - Oct. 1999

M.S. Information Technology

Bachelor of Computer Science, Oct. 1996

 

Professional Positions

 

BBN Technologies, 2000 - present

Scientist

BU D, NIRA EST

 

BBN Technologies, 1999 - 2000

Internship

QuO Group Distributed Systems & Logistics

 

University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1998 - 1999

Research Assistant

Advisor: Victor Lesser (Multi-Agent Systems Lab)

 

InterCom Network Consulting, 1995 - 1997

Network Consultant

 

Professional Responsibilities and Projects

 

From 2000 – present, Mr. Atighetchi participated in the following projects:

 

DPASA - Designing Protection and Adaptation into a Survivable Architecture

Mr. Atighetchi is a core member of the design team, in which he is actively participating in the design process. He is also the driving force behind a rapid prototyping thread, which involves implementing designs and integrating with 3^rd-party components.

 

SAMS - Survivable Architecture for Monitoring Security

As the lead of this technology transition project, Mr. Atighetchi represented QuO at customer meetings and developed QuO code for an integrated technology demonstration. Mr. Atighetchi designed and implemented adaptive logic to redirect application traffic, and later refactored the code into a reusable QuO component for doing socket level adaptation.

 

APOD - Applications That Participate In Their Own Defense

Mr. Atighetchi produced innovative designs and implementations of reusable network-based middleware defenses. He actively participated as a Blue Team member in the formal APOD Red Team experimentation process, and wrote significant parts of the APOD final project report.

 

ITUA - Intrusion Tolerance by Unpredictable Adaptation

Mr. Atighetchi is actively involved in the design and implementation of the ITUA architecture. He designed and implemented rapid reaction loops, worked on a technology demonstration for DarpaTech 2002, and participated in validation activities.

 

WSOA - Weapon Systems Open Architecture

As technical POC for this project, Mr. Atighetchi provides technical support and guidance to on-site developers. He developed a C++ version of the QuO-Kernel, implemented QuO contracts for adaptive management of CPU and network resources, and put together a testsuite for simulating the embedded WSOA environment.

 

QuO – Quality Object Middleware

Mr. Atighetchi is contributing to the ongoing process of improving the QuO middleware framework by maintaining the C++ QuO-Kernel and code generator. In addition, Mr. Atighetchi is also in charge of the open-source release process for QuO.

 

 

Selected Publications

 

Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pal, Chris Jones, Paul Rubel, Richard Schantz, Joseph Loyall, John Zinky.  Building Auto-Adaptive Distributed Applications: The QuO-APOD Experience. The 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable Systems, in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. May 19-22, 2003.

Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pal, Franklin Webber, Rick Schantz, Chris Jones.  Adaptive Use of Network-Centric Mechanisms in Cyber-Defense. The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. May 14-16, 2003.

Partha Pal, Michael Atighetchi, Franklin Webber, Richard Schantz and Chris Jones. Reflections On Evaluating Survivability: The APOD Experiments. The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA-03), Royal Sonesta Hotel,Cambridge, MA, USA, April 16-18, 2003.

Richard Schantz, Joseph Loyall, Michael Atighetchi, Partha Pal. Packaging Quality of Service Control Behaviors for Reuse. ISORC 2002, The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-time distributed Computing, April 29 - May 1, 2002, Washington, DC.

 

David Jensen, Michael Atighetchi, Regis Vincent, Victor Lesser. Learning Quantitative Knowledge for Multiagent Coordination. In the 16^th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), 24-31 August, Orlando, FL 1999.

 

Victor Lesser, Michael Atighetchi, Brett Benyo, Bryan Horling, Anita Raja, Regis Vincent, Thomas Wagner, Ping Xuan, Shelley XQ. Zhang. A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Environment Control. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Seattle, WA, USA 1999.

 

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