Research interests and presentations
My research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, social computing, security, identity management and networks.
Graduate research at Stanford:
I am involved in the PrPl project as part of POMI 2020, supervised by Professor Monica Lam. The project goal is to build a decentralized social networking platform targeted at mobile devices.
- Publications - Updated:
- Authentication
- Snap2Pass: Consumer-Friendly Challenge-Response Authentication with a Phone
- Distributed Social Networking with Personal-Cloud Butlers
- Architecture and Implementation of a Decentralized Social Networking Platform
- A person-centric, distributed social-networking infrastructure for sharing private and public data using active intermediaries.
- A Bad Moon Rising–An Omniscient Monopoly
- Projects
- PubSubBus: Publish-subscribe middleware system with high availability, eventual consistency, and predictable latency using asynchronous messages, smart proxy, attribute-oriented interfaces, multicast, msg queues. Report
- Identity Management (OpenID): Report
- Semantic Attribute-based Access Control: Reports
- Customized, Personal Feeds: Demo
- Social Reviews Service: Poster
Class presentations- The Chubby lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems, Mike Burrows. Slides
- Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System, Lakhsman et al. Slides
- VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network, Greenberg et al. SIGCOMM 09. Slides
- Eliminating Redundant Network Traffic, Spring et al. SIGCOMM 2000. Riverbed Systems patent. Slides
- Summary of CS244B Distributed Systems, taught by Prof. Cheriton.
Undergraduate research at UMass Amherst:
I
wrote an undergraduate research thesis in Multimedia Information
Retrieval at UMass Amherst. Topic: Issues in Machine Translation Model
in Automatic Image Annotation.