About the Author
Michael Collins is the chief scientist for RedJack, LLC, a network
security and data analysis company located in the Washington,
DC, area. Prior to his work at RedJack, Dr. Collins was a member of
the technical staff at the CERT Network Situational Awareness Group at Carnegie Mellon University. His primary focus is on network
instrumentation and traffic analysis, in particular on the analysis of
large traffic datasets.
Dr. Collins graduated with a PhD in electrical engineering from
Carnegie Mellon University in 2008. He holds master’s and bachelor’s
degrees from the same institution.