I am primarily interested in high level programming languages and attempts to make complex programming simpler. Currently I am working on the idea of programming environments for mobile ad hoc networks.

• 2006 - ?         PhD student at UCLA
• 2002 - 2006   BS in Computer Science at Seattle University

• 2010 - ?          AT&T Interactive (Security Engineer)
• 2007 - 2010    UCLA (Graduate Student Researcher)
• Summer 2010  AT&T Interactive (Info Sec Intern)
• 2007 - 2007    PC Club (Technician)
• 2005 - 2006    Klir Technologies (Network Administrator)
• 2002 - 2005    Seattle University Law School (Helpdesk Wrangler)

• Justin Collins and Rajive Bagrodia. "A Quantitative Comparison of Communication Paradigms for MANETs." In Proc. of the 7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2010).


• Justin Collins and Rajive Bagrodia. "Programming in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks." In Proceedings of the Fourth International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008).
  Citations: 5

• D. Joslin and J. Collins. "Greedy transformation of evolutionary algorithm search spaces for scheduling problems." IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007 (CEC 2007).
  Citations: 2


• J. Collins and D. Joslin. "Improving genetic algorithm performance with intelligent mappings from chromosomes to solutions." In Proc. of the 8th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO '06) (Seattle, Washington, USA, July 08 - 12, 2006).
  Poster
  Citations: 1

• AppSec USA (September 2011)
  Brakeman and Jenkins: The Duo Detects Defects in Ruby on Rails Code


• OWASP LA (May 2011)
  Automated Detection of Security Vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails Applications


• Grad Open House (March 2011)
  Graduate Student Panel


• LA Ruby Meetup (October 2010)
  Brakeman - Vulnerability Scanner for Ruby on Rails


• CS 239 PL Design (Spring 2008)
  AmbientTalk with Guards (Project presentation)


• CS 233A Parallel and Distributed Computing (Winter 2008)
  Programming Environments for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (Lecture)


• CS 239 Mobile Computing (Spring 2007)
  Many-to-Many Invocation and SpatialViews (Class presentation)

• Organizations
  • CSGSC (Member, 2007 - present; President 2010 - present)
• Software
  • Brakeman - Static analysis vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications
  • Brat - Little programming language
  • Sqwee - Weird wiki-like thing
• Websites
  • Neko Tutorial - Tutorial on using NekoVM
  • Fledgling Language List - List of new programming languages
  • Unprofessional Page