Andrew G. West
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Currently, I work on the Quantitative Trust Management (QTM) project under the advisement of Insup Lee, Sampath Kannan, and Oleg Sokolsky. My recent research has been on evaluation methodologies for rep. management algorithms and spam mitigation techniques.
More generally, my CS interests are systems-related. I also enjoy computational number theory; using multiple-precision numbers, clusters of machines, and efficient low-level programming to solve big mathematical problems.
Publications [PDF] [BIB] [@PENN]
First, my writings as a graduate student at UPenn:
| West, A.G., Aviv, A.J., Chang, J., & Lee, I. (2010). Preventing Malicious Behavior Using Spatio-Temporal Reputation. In submission to EuroSys 2010. Paris, FRA. [PDF-PENDING | ABSTRACT-TXT] |
| West, A.G., Lee, I., Kannan, S., & Sokolsky, O. (2010). An Evaluation Framework for Reputation Management Systems. Book chapter. To appear in Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: From Social Concept to System Development (Zheng Yan, ed.). [PDF | ABSTRACT-TXT] |
| West, A.G., Aviv, A.J., Chang, J., Prabhu, V.S., Blaze, M., Kannan, S., Lee, I., Smith, J.M., & Sokolsky, O. (2009). QuanTM: A Quantitative Trust Management System. In EUROSEC '09, pp. 28-35. Nuremburg, GER. [PDF | ABSTRACT-TXT] |
Scarily, people also trusted my opinion as an undergraduate. Below are those writings. If you read/look-at my undergraduate thesis, congrats, you're like the sixth person ever.
| West, A.G. (2007). Bound Optimization for Parallel Quadratic Sieving Using Large Prime Variations. Undergraduate Honor's Thesis. Washington & Lee University. Advisor: Rance Necaise. [PDF | ABSTRACT-TXT | POSTER | SLIDES] |
| West, A.G. (2007). Optimized Parallel Implementation of the Quadratic Sieve Factorization Algorithm. W&L Journal of Science, Spring 2007. [PDF] |
QTM Related
Readers looking for general QTM project information or source-code are advised to visit the QTM Project Page. Below, several of my individual contributions are highlighted:
| Trust-Management Simulator Source. 2009/10/25. [ZIP | PNG DIAG] |
| West, A.G. (2009). Quantitative Trust Management: QuanTM, Reputation, and PreSTA. PRECISE Research Group Presentation, Nov. 2009. (A partial summary of my graduate work to-date). [SLIDES-PDF | ABSTRACT-TXT ] |
| West, A.G. (2009). PreSTA: Preventing Malicious Behavior using Spatio-Temporal Reputation. ONR-MURI Presentation, Nov. 2009. [SLIDES-PDF] |
Teaching Endeavors
[Fall-10] - TA: CIS/CSE 400 Senior Design Projects (Paid TA).
[Spr-09] - TA: CIS/CSE 401 Senior Design Projects II (Teaching Practicum).
[Fall-08] - TA: CIS/CSE 400 Senior Design Projects (Teaching Practicum).
[Fall-08] - Presented An Introduction to LaTeX [Slides] to UPenn TCP Fellows.
Other Activities
When not hard-at-work researching, I fulfill the following roles within the University:
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[x] Co-chair of the CS Graduate Student Group (CSGSC), a GSEG subsidary. [x] CS Rep. to the Graduate Engineering Group (GSEG), a GAPSA subsidary. [x] Non-dues paying, but de facto member of the Penn Cycling Team. |
Additionally, on a purely personal level, I have three fanatical interests in life:
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[1] West Virginia University Athletics: I was born and raised in WV. [2] Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Thirty years on, and still rockin' hard. [3] Lance Armstrong: Greatest cyclist ever and all-around inspiring guy. |
Contact Information
Andrew G. West
Department of CIS
Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: Levine 613
E-Mail: westand {at, @} cis.upenn.edu