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Jesse SOWELL

Academic Background:

• 2015 • MIT, ESD: PhD in Engineering Systems – New Graduate!
• 2009 • MIT, ESD: SM in Technology & Policy
  privacy regulation, internet jurisdiction
• 2007 • Michigan State University: MS Criminal Justice
  industrial security, criminology, cybercrime
• 2005 • Michigan State University: MS Computer Science
  software engineering and network systems, formal methods, security, middleware design
• 2001 • Clemson University: BS Computer Science
  operating systems, graphics and visualization, application emphasis in number theory

Work Experience:

Jesse worked at GM R&D from 2005 to 2007 on data management methods and tools for discovering illicit supply chains based on off-the-shelf tools. This included working closely with GM Global Security to identify existing data sources and architecting the tools necessary to translate qualitative data into structural representations suitable for network analyses. The culmination of this work was a prototype and enterprise-scope analytics architecture.

Research Domain:

internet/telecommunications

Research Methodology:

qualitative case analysis

Research Description:

Jesse is investigating Internet jurisdiction conflicts and the ongoing changes in power relationships among online and offline stakeholders. Historically, telecommunications governance has buttressed traditional boundaries between sovereign states; more recently, the pace of technological change and proliferation has blurred these boundaries, yielding to groupings that more closely follow social, political, and ideological commonalities. Jesse is interested in understanding the the types of rules and collaborative stakeholder relationships that reduce Internet jurisdiction conflicts and the role of intentional architectural design that facilitates multistakeholder collaboration.