Dr Jefferson Tan - Researcher Profile

Biography

Jeff works in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University as a Lecturer, and with the Monash e-Research Centre as a software specialist. He completed his Ph.D. at Monash University in 2004 and both his Masters and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science at De La Salle University in Manila. His areas of expertise and research are in computer networks and distributed systems. His Masters thesis was on distributed load balancing and his Ph.D. thesis was on distributed databases and data integration with metamodels. His current projects with postgraduate students deal mostly with management, security and connectivity issues in computational grids and other distributed systems.

Related Links:

• My webpage with the Faculty of I.T.

Research & Supervision Interests

I am interested in most things that relate to distributed computing on the infrastructure or service side of things. However, I currently focus on the management, security, and connectivity issues in computational grids. I am also interested in data integration issues and metadata management, as well as network management.

Keywords

Computer/Data/Network Security, Distributed computing, Grid computing, Networking

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2004

Masters in Computer Science

Institution: De La Salle University

Year awarded: 1995

Bachelors in Computer Science

Institution: De La Salle University

Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Journal Articles

Abramson, D.A., Bernabeu, M., Bethwaite, B., Burrage, K., Corrias, A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D.J., Peachey, T.C., Pitt-Francis, J., Pueyo, E., Rodriguez, B., Sher, A.A., Tan, J., 2010, High-throughput cardiac science on the Grid, Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences [P], vol 368, issue 1925, Royal Society, London UK, pp. 3907-3923.

Ayyub, S., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Tan, J., 2009, Fault-tolerant execution of large parameter sweep applications across multiple VOs with storage constraints, Concurrency And Computation-Practice & Experience [P], vol 21, issue 3, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester England, pp. 377-392.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2009, REMUS: A rerouting and multiplexing system for Grid connectivity across firewalls, Journal of Grid Computing [P], vol 7, issue 1, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht Netherlands, pp. 25-50.

Conference Proceedings

Lim, Y., Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., 2012, Solving optimization problems in Nimrod/OK using a genetic algorithm, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 4 June 2012 to 6 June 2012, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 1647-1656.

Gao, F., Tan, J., 2011, Shibboleth and community authorization services: Enabling role-based grid access, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Part II, 24 October 2011 to 26 October 2011, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 131-140.

Sher, A.A., Cooling, M., Bethwaite, B., Tan, J., Peachey, T.C., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Gavaghan, D.J., Noble, D., Abramson, D.A., Crampin, E., 2010, A global sensitivity tool for cardiac cell modeling: Application to ionic current balance and hypertrophic signaling, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 31 August 2010 to 04 September 2010, IEEE, New York NY USA, pp. 1498-1502.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2010, Firewall traversal in the grid architecture, Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 01 September 2010 to 03 September 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 189-196.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2009, A virtual connectivity layer for grids, Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 09 December 2009 to 11 December 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 307-312.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2009, Optimizing tunneled Grid connectivity across firewalls, Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research, 21 January 2009, Australian Computer Society, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 21-27.

Ayyub, S., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., Garic, S., Tan, J., 2007, Executing large parameter sweep applications on a Multi-VO testbed, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 14 May 2007 to 17 May 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 73-82.

Kommineni, J.M.R., Abramson, D.A., Tan, J., 2006, Communication over a secured heterogeneous grid with the GriddLeS runtime environment, Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, 04 December 2006 to 06 December 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.

Tan, J., Abramson, D.A., Enticott, C.M., 2005, Bridging organizational network boundaries on the grid, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, 13 November 2005 to 14 November 2005, IEEE, Seattle USA, pp. 327-332.

Tan, J., Zaslavsky, A.B., Ewald, C., Bond, A., 2003, Domain-specific metamodels for heterogeneous information systems, Proceedings of the Thrity-Sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 06 January 2003 to 09 January 2003, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-10.

Tan, J., Zaslavsky, A.B., Ewald, C.A., Bond, A., 2001, A framework for ad-hoc federated information systems, Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on Complex and Dynamic Systems Architectures, 12 December 2001 to 14 December 2001, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld Australia, p. 1.

Tan, J., Zaslavsky, A., Ewald, C., Bond, A., 2000, Facilitating the Interoperability of Heterogeneous Databases with a Meta Object Facility, Proceedings of the Philippine Computing Science Congress (PSCS 2000), Manila PHILIPPINES, 29 November - 1 December 2000, Computing Society of the Philippines, Manila Philippines.

Tan, J., Zaslavsky, A., Bond, A., 2000, Meta Object Approach to Database Schema Integration, Proceedings of International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'00), Antwerp BELGIUM, 21 - 23 September 2000, Inst. of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., CA USA, pp. 145-154.

Tan, J., 1999, Cost-Efficient Load Distribution Using Multicasting, Proceedings 1st IEEE Computer Society Int. Workshop on Cluster Computing, Melbourne AUSTRALIA, December 2-3, 1999, IEEE, Inc., New Jersey USA, pp. 202-208.

Teaching Commitment

Dr Jefferson Tan is the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT;

 

• FIT2018 - Network and systems administration
• FIT5034 - Network administration and management
• FIT2019 - Network standards and specification
• FIT1005 - Networks and data communications
• FIT3130 - Network design and deployment

previously

 

• FIT2019 - Network standards and specification
• FIT3130 - Computer network design and deployment  

Jeff teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT2018 - Network and systems administration
• FIT5034 - Network administration and management
• FIT2019 - Network standards and specification

 

Community Service

Jeff runs the website for the Catholic community of Monash University.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Strong Authentication for Online Banking and E-Commerce Transaction Processing.

Supervisors:

Le, P (Main), Tan, J (Associate).