Kay Hane Connelly

Lindley Hall, Room 215
150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
(812) 855-0739

320 S Eastside Dr.
Bloomington, IN 47401
(812) 334-8487
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~connelly
connelly@cs.indiana.edu


CURRENT RESEARCH

Security mechanisms for high-performance, component-based, distributed systems. Developing a communication security mechanism for high performance component applications for use by the Agile Objects project. This work is constrained by strict performance requirements of the target domain, but identifies and utilizes unique opportunities provided by the same domain.

Usability of system-level security services. Working on the front-end of an Active Spaces Role Based Access Control (AS/RBAC) system. Applying usability methodologies to the GUI development and developing novel techniques for allowing security administrators to explore the state of the security system when proposing changes in order to easily identify anomalies which must be further investigated by hand.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS Urbana-Champaign, IL. Currently working towards a PhD, Computer Science (4.0 GPA), May 1999 to present.

UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS Urbana-Champaign, IL. Masters of Science, Computer Science (4.0 GPA), May 1999.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY Bloomington, IN, Bachelor of Science, Computer Sciences (3.98 GPA) with a minor in Mathematics (3.94 GPA), May 1995 graduation, GPA of 3.92. Graduated with highest distinction.

WORK EXPERIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE and INDIANA PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY LABS Indiana University at Bloomington, IN 1/01 - present
Research Associate Performing research in the Agile Objects project. Focussing on security and survivability for high-performance distributed systems.

CONCURRENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE GROUP, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 1/99 - 12/00
Research Assistant Performed research on the Agile Objects project. Focussed on security and survivability for high-performance distributed systems. Sponsored by an NSF fellowship.

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 9/98-12/98
Teaching Assistant for "Introduction to Data Structures". This is a second year course for Computer Science majors. Taught three 2-hour labs in the form of a prepared lecture. Responsible for writing and delivering the weekly lectures, writing practice problems, writing exam questions, grading exams, holding review sessions and holding office hours.

CONCURRENT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE GROUP, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 4/96 - 9/98
Research Assistant Performed research on the High Performance Virtual Machine (HPVM) project. Focussed on quality of service for asynchronous wormhole routed networks. Sponsored by an NSF fellowship.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, South Bend, IN 6/95 - 9/95
Teaching Intern Instructed a professor in a hardware lab enabling him to teach the lab to his students the following term. The lab consisted of designing and bread-boarding an I/O interface for a PDP-8 using components such a logical gates and programmable logic arrays (PALs).

AT&T BELL LABORATORIES, Murray Hill, NJ 6/94 - 9/94
Research Intern Designed, implemented and analyzed a document encoding scheme to be used by on-line publishers. The encoder implants an invisible keyword into an electronic document that can be decoded in both electronic and hard copies. This enables publishers to determine where an illegal copy of a document originated, thus discouraging copyright violations.

PUBLICATIONS

Breaking the Barriers: High Performance Security for High Performance Computing, Kay Connelly and Andrew A Chien. New Security Paradigms Workshop. September, 2002. (pre-proceedings draft: technical report 567.)

An Authorization Framework for a Grid Based Component Architecture, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Helen Rehn, Jay Alameda, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Aleksander Slominski, Kay Connelly, Von Welch, Dennis Gannon, Randall Bramley, and Shawn Hampton. To appear in 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing. November, 2002.

Elusive Interfaces: A Low-Cost Mechanism for Protecting Distributed Object Interfaces (PDF) May 2000. (Connelly, Chien)

FM-QoS: A Quality of Service Messaging Substrate for Asynchronous Local-Area Networks with Hardware-Level Network Feedback. Master's Thesis, May 1999.

Design and Evaluation of an HPVM-based Window NT Supercomputer. The International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 201-219. (Chien, Lauria, Pennington, Showerman, Iannello, Buchanan, Connelly, Koenig, Krishnamurthy, Liu, Pakin & Sampemane)

FM-QoS: Real-time Communication using Self-synchronizing Schedules. In the Proceedings of SuperComputing 1997 (SC’97) (Connelly & Chien)

High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVM): Clusters with Supercomputing APIs and Performance. Eigth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP97); March, 1997 (Chien, Pakin, Lauria, Buchanan, Hane [Connelly], Giannini, and Prusakov).

ACTIVITIES AND HONORS

Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award: (2000-2001). College of Engineering makes these awards to engineering graduate students pursuing a doctorate. Emphasis is placed on students who wish to become educators. Here is a copy of the essay I wrote for the application.

Outstanding Service Award: (2000). American Red Cross, Illini-Prairie Chapter award.

Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award: (1999-2000). Department of Computer Science certificate and award.

Excellent Teaching Assistant Award: (Fall 1998). Department of Computer Science certificate and award.

On "An Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students": (Fall 1998). I was in the top 10% of all teaching assistants on campus as ranked by the student evaluation forms.

National Science Foundation Fellowship: (1995 - 2000) Fellowship funds students during pursuit of a graduate degree.

Phi Beta Kappa: Students are invited to join on the basis of academic excellence.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Grievance Committee: (2000-2001 fall semester) Recommends action on student grievances not resolved through normal appeals.

Courses and Curricula Committee: (1999-2000 academic year) This committee considered changes to CS curricula. In addition to other duties, I led a subcommittee effort to revamp an entire sequence of courses for non-major graduate students.

Fellowships, Assistanships and Admission committee: (1998-1999 academic year) This committee reviews applications for graduate study in computer science and determines who is admited and receives financial aid.

PUBLIC SERVICE

Volunteer for the local chapter of the American RedCross. Along with another volunteer, I developed and administered internet auction software that allows the RedCross to fund raise by auctioning off donated items (1997, 1999, 2000).

Volunteer for the Kenwood Mentor Program, a program that provides adult mentors for troubled youth attending Kenwood Elementary School (1997-1998).

Founding member of the Friends of Lincoln Neighborhood, a grassroots organization that advocates for a group of 81 low-income families being forced into homelessness as a result of the actions of the city of Urbana (1996 - 1999 ).

Volunteer for WEFT community radio station (10/96 - 12/96).

Volunteer coordinator for BOAST, an outreach program that provides local youths from a low-income housing project positive role models while stimulating their interest in the sciences (1/96 - 12/96).

Volunteer for BOAST. In addition to participating in bi-weekly science demonstrations, I tutor children one afternoon every week (1995 - 1997).