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I am generally interested in computer science systems research. More specifically, I enjoy working on distributed systems, networking, operating systems and network/systems security. At IRP, I am working primary on two projects: Neighborhood-Aware Networking (NaN) and Data-Oriented Transfer (DOT). Previous projects include Reliable Email (Re:) Most of my graduate work involved a secure, decentralized network filesystem called SFS.
My Ph.D. thesis involved two pieces of work. First, I worked on the problem of how to do user authentication in a global file system. See our SOSP paper for more details. Second, I worked on REX, a remote-execution extension to SFS which incorporates the flexible key management and security already available in the filesystem. This extension is integrated with the SFS agent architecture and the filesystem; we hope with REX+SFS to provide a complete distributed computing environment where moving between machines is transparent. See our USENIX paper for more details.
My Master's research dealt with the problem of how to achieve flexible server key management in secure systems. In SFS, we use the idea of an user-controlled agent program which offers a toolbox approach to key management; users can mix and match different techniques to customize the authentication process. See my Master's Thesis (below) for more details.
In summer 1998, I did some really interesting and fun work related to the Interactive Barney doll from Actimates--check out this page for more info.
In Summer 2004, I joined Intel Research Pittsburgh (IRP) after graduating from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) (formerly the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS)) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I worked with Frans Kaashoek in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems (PDOS) group. I received my S.M. (Masters) in EECS from MIT in Spring 2000. I received my B.S. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in Spring 1998.