Thesis: Analyzing security advice in functional aspect-oriented programming languages.
Faculty advisor: David Walker
National Defense Science & Engineering Fellow
Gordon Wu Fellow

B.S. in Computer Science [summa cum laude, with honors]

Class Rank: 3rd of 127 Computer Science graduates
Minor in Electrical & Computer Engineering
John McMullen Dean's Scholar
Corporate scholarships from Lockheed Martin, P&G, United Technologies, Xerox
Tau Beta Pi:The Engineering Honor Society

Provided technology analysis to Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman for litigation involving approximately eight separate patents and more than forty patent claims against General Electric.
Successful conclusion: General Electric and Katz settle patent lawsuit and enter into license agreement

Information Security Research Intern at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Published A Simple and Expressive Semantic Framework for Policy Composition in Access Control at the ACM workshop on Formal Methods in Security Engineering: From Specifications to Code