Professional

Current status	Researcher in the Faculty of Informatics at the Technische Universität München under the Chair for IT Security and in cooperation with Fraunhofer AISEC (formerly Fraunhofer SIT Munich)
Research interests	Privacy and censorship issues, anonymity, steganography, computational linguistics; highly successful adult language learners.
Education	Fall 2009 - present: Doctoral student in Computer Science Faculty of Informatics, Chair for IT Security Technische Universität München, Garching bei München, Germany Doctoral advisor: Prof. Claudia Eckert Research area: Natural language text analysis in IT early warning systems June 2008: University of Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults), TEFL - Pass B Bridge-Linguatec, Denver, Colorado  USA Fall 2002 - Fall 2006: PhD student in Linguistics (ABD: December 2006 - no plans to complete) Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana  USA Doctoral advisor: Prof. Margie Berns Research area: Highly successful adult language learners Fall 2000 - Summer 2002:: MS in Computer Science Department of Computer Sciences Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana  USA Advisor: Prof. Mikhail Atallah Research area: Information security Fall 1997 - Fall 1999: BS in Computer Science (Summa cum laude) Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin  USA Minor: Mathematics
Publications	Distributed Stream Processing with DUP Kai Christian Bader, Tilo Eißler, Nathan Evans, Chris GauthierDickey, Christian Grothoff, Krista Grothoff, Jeff Keene, Harald Meier, Craig Ritzdorf, and Matthew J. Rutherford Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2010) September 2010 - Zhengzhou, China Simplifying Parallel and Distributed Simulation with the DUP System Nathan S. Evans, Chris GauthierDickey, Christian Grothoff, Krista Grothoff, Jeff Keene and Matthew J. Rutherford Proceedings of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'10) April 2010 - Orlando, Florida Lost in Translation Christian Grothoff, Krista Grothoff, Ludmila Alkhutova, Ryan Stutsman and Mikhail Atallah Journal of Computer Security Volume 17: Issue 3, 2009 Lost in Just the Translation Ryan Stutsman, Mikhail Atallah, Christian Grothoff and Krista Grothoff Proceedings of the the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) April 2006 - Dijon, France Translation-Based Steganography Christian Grothoff, Krista Grothoff, Ludmila Alkhutova, Ryan Stutsman and Mikhail Atallah Proceedings of the 2005 Information Hiding Workshop (IH 2005) June 2005 - Barcelona, Spain Linguistic Steganography: Survey, Analysis, and Robustness Concerns for Hiding Information in Text Krista Bennett CERIAS TR 2004-13 Technical Report, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) May, 2004 - Purdue University Semantic Representation of English Phrasal Verbs Julija Televnaja, Krista Bennett, Christian Hempelmann and Katrina E. Triezenberg Intelligent Information Systems 2004: New Trends in Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining (IIPWM 2004) May, 2004 - Zakopane, Poland GAP - Practical Anonymous Networking Krista Bennett and Christian Grothoff Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET 2003) March, 2003 - Dresden, Germany Efficient Sharing of Encrypted Data Krista Bennett, Christian Grothoff, Tzvetan Horozov and Ioana Patrascu Proceedings of the 7th Australiasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2002) July, 2002 - Melbourne, Australia
Research and work experience	Fall 2009 - Present Researcher - Faculty of Informatics, Chair for IT Security, Technische Universität München; focus on natural language text analysis in the context of network attack detection Fall 2009 - Summer 2011 Guest Researcher - Fraunhofer Research Institution for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) (formerly Fraunhofer SIT-Munich), Garching bei München, Germany Fall 2005 - Summer 2006: Systems Engineer - Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Carson, California Spring 2005 Instructor - Elements of Linguistics (English 227) - Department of English, Purdue University Fall 2004: Instructor - American Culture - Purdue Village ESOL Program Fall 2003 - Spring 2005: Research assistant for Ronnie Wilbur and Avi Kak, working on automatic recognition of American Sign Language Fall 2002 - Spring 2003: Research assistant for Victor Raskin and Mike Atallah, working on natural language information assurance and security Summer 2002, Summer 2003: Research assistant for Jan Vitek, working on documentation for the OVM virtual machine project Spring 2000: Firmware/Test Engineer, Hewlett-Packard High Performance Systems Lab (HPSL), Roseville, California
Honors	Graduate: Fall 2000 - Spring 2002: GAANN Doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University Undergraduate: Fall 1999: College of Engineering Outstanding Student Award (Academic), awarded to the most academically outstanding graduating senior. College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Fall 1990 - Spring 1994: National Merit Scholar, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
Past and current major software projects:	Developer - DUP System. DUP is a language for productive parallel and distributed stream processing on POSIX systems. Developer - GNUnet secure peer-to-peer networking framework
Graduate coursework	Linguistics: Introduction to Linguistics - Victor Raskin Phonology I: Descriptive Analysis - Robert Hammond Phonology II: Theoretical Approaches - Diane Brentari Syntax I: Syntactic Analysis - Elena Benedicto Syntax II: Issues in Syntax - Ronnie Wilbur Semantics I:  Lexical and Sentential Semantics - Victor Raskin Natural Language Discourse Processing - Victor Raskin Historical Linguistics and Language Study - Robert Channon Natural Language Processing - Victor Raskin Teaching ESL: Theoretical Foundations - Margie Berns Old Norse - Shaun Hughes Statistical Methods - Tonglin Zhang Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning - Howard Grabois Research PhD Thesis - Victor Raskin Research PhD Thesis - Margie Berns Directed Reading in Linguistics (Individual Seminar for Doctoral Preliminary Exam) - Margie Berns Computer Science: Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Implementation - Greg Frederickson Compiling and Programming Systems - Tony Hosking Formal Compiling Methods - Jens Palsberg Programming Languages - Jens Palsberg Software Engineering - Jan Vitek Information Security - Clay Shields Cryptography - Mike Atallah Secure Multiparty Computation - Mike Atallah Operating Systems - Sonia Fahmy Introduction to Natural Language Processing - Victor Raskin
Languages	English (mother tongue), Dutch, Spanish, German (Zertifikat Deutsch, TestDaF), French (reading knowledge). Smatterings of several others.
Programming languages	C/C++, Java, R, Python, Expect, PHP, Javascript, *sh (run-of-the-mill shell scripting), SQL, various flavors of assembly language, Scheme, DUP, FORTRAN, BASIC, and anything else I've needed to use along the way. N.B. This is sort of asking a carpenter for a list of tools he's used - pick the right tool for the job, and if you don't know it, learn it.