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Pompa Professor in SEAS: Jonathan Smith

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.

 


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 24, March 4, 2003

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