Michael Bloem received his B.S.E. degree with majors in electrical/computer engineering and economics from Calvin College in 2004 and his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007.  His undergraduate research focused on embedded systems and his internship experience with Smiths Aerospace involved programming for reliable embedded systems.  While studying with the Distributed Control of Trustworthy Networked Systems group at the Coordinated Science Lab at UIUC and while at an internship with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs) in Berlin, Bloem researched applications of optimization, optimal control, and game theory to computer network security.  Bloem's advisor for his M.S. degree was Tamer Basar.  In late June 2007 he will begin researching air traffic control for NASA at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA.

RESUME & TRANSCRIPTS

Michael Bloem's resume (February 27, 2007)

Michael Bloem's transcript from UIUC

Michael Bloem's transcript from Calvin College

PUBLICATIONS

M. Bloem, T.Alpcan, S. Schmidt, and T. Basar "Malware Filtering for Network Security Using Weighted Optimality Measures," in Proc. of Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC), Singapore, October 2007. [pdf]

M. Bloem "Applications of Optimization and Optimal Control Theory to Computer Network Security," M.S. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2007. [pdf]

M. Bloem, T. Alpcan, and T. Basar "Intrusion Response as a Resource Allocation Problem," in Proc. of 45nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, CA, December 2006. [paper pdf] [poster png]

MISCELLANEOUS

A LaTeX template for an ECE Thesis at UIUC (April, 2007)
This template is not well documented and I make no promises that it will work for you.  It worked for me in April, 2007.  It contains solutions to some issues with the uiucthesis LaTeX class available on CTAN.

CONTACT INFORMATION

email: michael-dot-bloem/at/gmail-dot-com