About

Hi, my name is Mike, and I wear a bunch of hats for work and hobbies.

My day job involves running an academic wireless testbed, with a lot of overlap into other topics. For my IT hat, I talk about networks, security, software, and SRE/Devops/Sysadmin-ing For engineering topics, I’m focused on RF and Wireless communication, with some movement towards FPGAs

My academic hat has a lot of overlap with the above, but my interests lie in provable correctness and reliability, and human factors in security. Before networking and wireless, I worked on human factors in mobile security, especially gesture based authentication.

I’ll periodically write about papers I thought were interesting, as well as conferences where I had a good experience.

Outside of that, I have a bunch of hobbies:

• I’m an avid reader of SF/Fantasy
• I’m recently very into yoga, since it’s too warm to run, and the gyms are closed for olympic lifting.
• I commute by bike as much as possible (Before everything went remote)
• I enjoy day hikes, but restrict it to outside mosquito season. I’d like to do multi-day trips, but haven’t found a group.
• I stress bake increasingly elaborate recipies (Babka is easy for the presentation value)
• I’m very particular about how I prepare my coffee, and my local roaster knows me well. (But I’ll drink conference coffee anyway)
• I’m working on resuming a photography hobby, and slowly learning to sketch.
• I’m casually working on some speaker, audio amplifier, and DAC designs to recover my old EE knowledge.