News

(05/2012) TARDIS paper accepted to Usenix Security 2012  (03/2012) Plug-n-Trust paper accepted to MobiSys 2012  (01/2012) Amulet paper accepted to HotMobile 2012  (08/2011) Ekho paper accepted to HotPower 2011  (05/2011) Aarathi and Shrirang's papers at HealthSec 2011  (02/2011) I'm teaching Computer Architecture (CS 37) this Summer  (11/2010) Mementos paper accepted to ASPLOS 2011. 

About Me

I'm a postdoc at the Institute for Security Technology and Society (ISTS) and the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College, working for David Kotz.

Before Dartmouth: MS/PhD (UMass Amherst, 2010) — Intern (Intel Research,2007) — BS (BYU, 2002)

I will be joining the faculty at Clemson University in August 2012.

[My CV]

Research Interests

Broadly: Mobile Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Pervasive Computing.

Specifically: Security and privacy in mHealth sensing, perpetual systems, energy management and awareness, runtime profiling and adaptation, programming languages, operating systems, and disruption tolerant systems.

Projects: mHealth Security and Privacy, Perpetual Systems (Tula, Eon, TurtleNet), RFID-scale computing (Mementos), and Hierarchical Power Management (see Turducken and Triage papers).

Publications

• Refereed Papers

  • Plug-n-Trust: Practical trusted sensing for mHealth
    J. Sorber, M. Shin, R. Peterson, D. Kotz. Accepted to MobiSys 2012.
  • Tula: Balancing Energy for Sensing and Communication in a Perpetual Mobile System
    J. Sorber, A. Balasubramanian, M. D. Corner, J. Ennen, C. Qualls. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012 (to appear). [PDF]
  • An Amulet for trustworthy wearable mHealth
    J. Sorber, M. Shin, R. Peterson, C. Cornelius, S. Mare, A. Prasad, Z. Marois, E. Smithayer, D. Kotz. In the Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February, 2012. [PDF]
  • Ekho: Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Reality in Tiny Energy-Harvesting Sensors
    H. Zhang, M. Salajegheh, K. Fu, and J. Sorber. In the Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), October, 2011.
  • Adaptive security and privacy for mHealth sensing
    S. Mare, J. Sorber, M. Shin, C. Cornelius, and D. Kotz. In USENIX Workshop on Health Security (HealthSec), August, 2011. Short paper.
  • Exposing privacy concerns in mHealth
    A. Prasad, J. Sorber, T. Stablein, D. Anthony, and D. Kotz. In USENIX Workshop on Health Security (HealthSec), August, 2011. Position paper.
  • Mementos: System Support for Long-Running Computation on RFID-Scale Devices
    B. Ransford, J. Sorber, K. Fu. To appear at the Sixteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2011). [PDF] [Source/Docs]
  • Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems.
    J. Sorber, A. Kostadinov, M. Garber, M. Brennan, M. D. Corner, E.D. Berger. In Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2007), Sydney, Australia, November 2007. [PDF]  [Slides]
  • Triage: Balancing Energy Consumption and Quality of Service in Tiered Microservers
    N. Banerjee, J. Sorber, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins, and D. Ganesan. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2007), Puerto Rico, June 2007.[PDF]
  • Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices
    J. Sorber, N. Banerjee, M. D. Corner, and S. Rollins. In Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2005), Seattle, WA, June 2005. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Parallel search for LTL violations
    M. D. Jones, J. Sorber, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Volume 7, Issue 1, Feb 2005, Pages 31 - 42. [PDF]

• Works in Progress, Tech Reports, Posters, etc

  • Hide-n-Sense: Privacy-Aware Secure mHealth Sensing
    S. Mare, J. Sorber, M. Shin, C. Cornelius, and D. Kotz. Technical Report TR2011-702. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. September, 2011. [PDF]
  • Practical Trusted Computing for mHealth Sensing (Poster)
    J. Sorber, M. Shin, R. Peterson, and D. Kotz. In International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June, 2011.
  • Tula: Balancing Energy for Sensing and Communication in a Perpetual Mobile System
    J. Sorber, A. Balasubramanian, M. D. Corner, J. Ennen, C Qualls. Technical Report UM-CS-2009-058. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA. December, 2009. [PDF]
  • eFlux: Simple Automatic Adaptation for Environmentally Powered Devices (Poster/Demo)
    J. Sorber, A. Kostadinov, M. Brennan, M. D. Corner, E.D. Berger. In 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile/WMCSA), Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, April 2006.
  • Parallel Random Walk Search for LTL Violations
    M. D. Jones, J. Sorber, Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Model Checking (PDMC), Brno, Czeck Republic, August 2002

Teaching

• CS 37: Computer Architecture. Summer 2011.

Service

Program Committees:

• ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Medical Device Communication Systems (MedCOMM 2012)
• The 3rd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec '12)
• Workshop on Secure Data Management on Smartphones and Mobiles (at ICDE 2012)

Awards

Best Presentation, Ph.D. Forum, MobiSys 2008, Breckenridge, CO.