David Mazières is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford
University, where he leads the Secure Computer Systems research group.
He also serves as Chief Scientist at both Stellar Development
Foundation and GitStar, Inc., the latter of which he co-founded.
Prof. Mazières received a BS in Computer Science from Harvard in 1994
and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in
2000.  Prof. Mazières's research interests include Operating Systems
and Distributed Systems, with a particular focus on security.  Some of
the projects he and his students have worked on include SFS (a
self-certifying network file system), SUNDR (a file system that
introduced the notion of fork linearizability), Kademlia (a widely
used peer-to-peer routing algorithm), Coral (a peer-to-peer content
distribution network), HiStar (a secure operating system based on
decentralized information flow control), tcpcrypt (a TCP option
providing forward-secure encryption), Hails (a web framework that can
preserve privacy while incorporating untrusted third-party apps), Dune
(a driver granting linux processes safe access to privileged CPU
features), and COWL (an information-flow-control-based browser
security architecture).  Prof. Mazières has several awards including
an Oakland distinguished paper award (2014), Sloan award (2002),
USENIX best paper award (2001), NSF CAREER award (2001), MIT Sprowls
best thesis in computer science award (2000).