Kim P. Kihlstrom

I am on medical leave until further notice while I battle ovarian cancer. For urgent needs, please contact Silvia (see below).

Professor of Computer Science
Email: kimkihls@westmont.edu
Phone: 805-565-6864
Fax: 805-565-7036
Office: Winter Hall 301

Administrative Assistant:
Silvia Rodarte, phone 805-565-6174

Specialization
Distributed systems, including intrusion tolerance, survivability, security, and fault tolerance

Education

B.S., Stanford University
M.S., Stanford University
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Selected Honors/Awards

Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation funded grant proposal, Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) Program, $287,500, 2007-2011
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation funded grant proposal, "Survivable, Adaptive, and Scalable Distributed Systems," Cyber Trust Program, $178,050, 2005-2009
Wilkes Award, Best paper published in a volume (year) of The Computer Journal, 2004
Bruce and Adaline Bare Teacher of the Year Award, Natural and Behavioral Sciences, Westmont College, 2003-2004
Faculty Research Award, Westmont College, 2003-2004
Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation funded grant proposal, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS) Program, $55,000, 2002-2006

Selected Publications (* indicates Westmont student authors)

K. P. Kihlstrom and R. S. Elliott*, Performance of an Intrusion-Tolerant Gossip Protocol, in Proceedings of the 21st IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, MA, November 2009, pp. 62-68.

K. P. Kihlstrom, R. S. Elliott*, K. A. Marshman*, and A. C. Smith*, Intrusion-Tolerant Dissemination in Large-Scale Systems, in Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2008, pp. 934-940

K. P. Kihlstrom, J. L. Stewart*, N. T. Lounsbury*, A. J. Rogers*, and M. C. Magnuson*, Implementation and Performance Testing of a Gossip-Based Communication System, in Proceedings of the 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, MA, November 2007, pp. 194-199

K. P. Kihlstrom, P. Narasimhan, C. Phillips*, C. Ritchey*, and B. LaBarbera*, The Architecture of the Starfish System: Mapping the Survivability Space, in Proceedings of the 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Marina del Rey, California, November 2003, pp. 833-843

K. P. Kihlstrom and P. Narasimhan, The Starfish System: Providing Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Tolerance for Middleware Systems, in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS) (invited for presentation), Guadalajara, Mexico, January 2003, pp. 191-199

K. P. Kihlstrom, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Byzantine Fault Detectors for Solving Consensus, The Computer Journal 46(1):16-35, 2003 (received Wilkes Award)

K. P. Kihlstrom, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, The SecureRing Group Communication System, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 4(4):371-406, November 2001