James Mickens
        PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering
        University of Michigan

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        Office: 4828 CSE

I'm not a student anymore!

I graduated in Spring 2008, and now I work at Microsoft Research
in Seattle, Washington. Click here to go to my new web page.


Research

J. Mickens and B. Noble. "Analytical Models for Epidemics in Mobile Networks."
To be published in Proceedings of the IEEE WiMob 2007 Special Session on
Security in Mobile Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks
.

J. Mickens and B. Noble. Concilium: Collaborative Diagnosis of Broken Overlay
Routes
. To be published in Proceedings of the 2007 DSN.

J. Mickens, M. Szummer, and D. Narayanan. Snitch: Interactive Decision Trees
for Troubleshooting Misconfigurations
. In Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop
on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques,

Cambridge, MA, April 2007.

J. Mickens and B. Noble. Exploiting Availability Prediction in Distributed Systems.
In Proceedings of the 2006 NSDI, pages 73--86, San Jose, CA, May 2006.

J. Mickens and B. Noble. Modeling Epidemic Spreading in Mobile Networks.
In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Wireless Security, pages 77--96,
Cologne, Germany, September 2005. Received Best Student Paper Award.

M. Jayapandian, B. Noble, J. Mickens, and H.V. Jagadish. Using Delay to Defend
Against Database Extraction
. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Secure Data
Management in a Connected World
, pages 202--218, Toronto, Canada, August
2004.