Pompa
Professor in SEAS: Jonathan Smith
Dr.
Jonathan M. Smith has been appointed the first incumbent
of the Olga and Alberico Pompa Professorship of Engineering
and Applied Science. Dr. Smith received his bachelor's
degree in mathematics in 1981 from Boston College
and his master's degree in computer science from Columbia
University in 1983. He then began his professional
career at Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bellcore,
where he focused on UNIX internals, tools and distributed
computing technology. In 1989, after receiving his
Ph.D. from Columbia University, he joined the faculty
of Penn Engineering.
Dr.
Smith's research is centered on advanced
computer communications networks and
secure distributed computing systems.
He has written extensively on his work
on gigabit networks, for which he has
several U.S. patents. His current research
interest is programmable network infrastructures: "Protocol
Boosters" provide a methodology
for using such infrastructures and "SwitchWare" is
an idealized programmable infrastructure.
Dr.
Smith has received numerous grants
from DARPA and NSF. He has served on
various committees, including the National
Science Foundation CISE Advisory Committee,
the National Research Council Committee
on Future Technologies for Army Multimedia
Communication, the FTC Advisory Committee
on Online Access and Security, and
the ACM SIGCOMM Conference Program
Committee. He is a member of the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Sigma
Xi, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineering (IEEE),
and has consulted extensively for industry
and government.
The
Pompa Professorship was established
in 1998 through the estate of Olga
Pompa who wished to honor her late
husband, Alberico Pompa, CE '29. Dr.
Smith was selected by a search committee
for his exceptional contributions to
the stature of the School in research
and education.
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