Samuel Jero
Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Jero is a systems security researcher and Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory with 15 years of experience in networking and operating systems security. He combines deep academic rigor from a Ph.D. in Computer Science with hands-on exploit discovery and defense engineering, producing practical systems for automatic attack discovery, fault-tolerant SDN controllers, and protocol-level vulnerability detection. His work spans active attacks on congestion control, novel QUIC exploits, and NLP-driven protocol specification extraction to enable automated vulnerability discovery. Prior roles include multi-year research at Purdue and impactful internships at Bell Labs, Cray, and Ohio University, where contributions included Linux kernel patches and large-scale storage/SSD tooling. Based in Waltham, MA, he blends systems thinking with applied security research that repeatedly moves from prototype to real-network evaluation.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS and MS, Computer Science, BS and MS, Computer Science at Ohio UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (27)
congestion-control10
tcp9
aio9
blockchain8
tls138
network-analysis8
ips7
moto7
openflow7
operating-system7
embedded7
kernel6
z36
arm5
networking5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samueljero/TCPwn
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
A system for automated discovery of congestion control attacks on TCP implementations
Contributions:116 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
congestion-controltcp
samueljero/mininet_utils
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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