Rob Jansen
Computer Scientist at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolRob Jansen is a computer scientist and privacy-focused researcher with 15 years advancing anonymous communication, distributed systems security, and usable privacy technologies at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. He combines deep academic training (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) with practical experience analyzing real-world designs for vulnerabilities and crafting secure protocols that balance theoretical guarantees with usability and performance. His work repeatedly exposes design pitfalls in proposed anonymity systems, informing what primitives and patterns actually hold up under attack. Alongside internships at places like MIT Lincoln Laboratory and BBN, he has explored applied topics from satellite attestation to disruption-tolerant anonymity, demonstrating a pragmatic bent toward deployable security. Based in Washington, D.C., he focuses on turning hard research insights into practical, user-acceptable privacy tools.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of MinnesotaB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at University of Minnesota Morris
Github Skills (131)
network-graph10
simulator10
traffic10
emulation10
scientific-computing10
swiftui10
connected10
simulate10
multicore10
linux10
provisioning10
anonymize10
scalability10
scalable10
markov10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
robgjansen/tgen
Mar 2020 - Dec 2023
A powerful traffic generator that can model complex behaviors using an action-dependency graph
Contributions:19 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 10 months
behaviorsdependency-graphtraffic-generatorgraphtraffic
robgjansen/shadow
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Shadow is a discrete-event network simulator that directly executes real application code, enabling you to simulate distributed systems with thousands of network-connected processes in realistic and scalable private network experiments using your laptop, desktop, or server running Linux.
Contributions:21 PRs, 165 pushes, 145 branches in 3 years 5 months
discrete-eventsimulationconnectedrealisticsimulator
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