| MICHAEL J. FREEDMAN |
| www.michaelfreedman.org |
| mfreed (at) scs stanford edu |
| December 31, 2006 |
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| EDUCATION | |
| New York University | Fall 2002 - present |
| New York, NY | |
| Candidate for Ph.D. in computer science. | |
| M.S., Computer science, June 2005. | |
| Advisor: David Mazières | |
| Stanford University | Fall 2005 - present |
| Stanford, CA | |
| Research staff. On leave from NYU to accompany my advisor. | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Fall 1997 - Spring 2002 |
| Cambridge, MA | |
| M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2002. | Spring 2001 - Spring 2002 |
| Thesis: A Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer | |
| Advisor: Robert Morris | |
| Cumulative Graduate GPA: 5.0/5.0 | |
| S.B., Computer Science and Engineering, June 2001 | Fall 1997 - Fall 2000 |
| Minor in Political Science. | |
| Undergrad Thesis Advisor: Ron Rivest | |
| Cumulative Undergraduate GPA: 4.9/5.0 | |
| Oxford University, Magdalen College | Fall 2000 |
| Oxford, UK | |
| Wyoming Valley West High School | Fall 1993 - Spring 1997 |
| Plymouth, PA | |
| Graduated Class Valedictorian (1/ 314). National Merit Finalist (PSAT 1550), Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction, National Honor Society. | |
| PUBLICATIONS |
| See publications page for full list and links. |
| HONORS |
| NDSEG (DoD) Graduate Fellow, 2002-2005 |
| NYU McCracken Fellow, 2002-2006 |
| Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2001 |
| Awarded Gordon Wu Fellowship, Princeton, 2001 |
| Awarded Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale, 2001 |
| Awarded Graduate Fellowships, U.C.Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, UCSD, 2001 |
| Coca-Cola Scholar, 1997-2001 |
| Tylenol Scholar, 1997-1999 |
| Big 33 Scholar, 1997-1998 |
| Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society), 2000- |
| Eta Kappa Nu (EECS Honor Society), 2000- |
| Sigma Xi (Scientific Research Society), 2000- |
| Order of Omega (Fraternal Honor Society), 1999- |
| Congressional Award, Silver (1996) and Bronze (1993) medals |
| Explorer's Club, 1996- |
| Henning Biermann Award, NYU Computer Science Dept., 2005 (for education and service) |
| Best demo award (OASIS), WORLDS 2005 |
| First paper, Eurocrypt 2004 |
| Award paper, CCS 2002 |
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVIES |
| Advising: Masters students: Justin Pettit (Stanford), Robert Soule (NYU), Jeff Borden (NYU) Undergraduates: Jeffrey Spehar (Stanford), Kevin Shanahan (NYU), Ed Kupershlak (NYU) |
| Program Committee: WORLDS '06, UPGRADE-CDN '06, IRIS Student P2P Workshop '03 |
| External Reviewer: NSDI '07, LATIN '06, HotNets '05, EUROCRYPT '05, Usenix Technical '05, ISC '04, CRYPTO '04, IPDPS '04, IEEE Infocom '04, ACM CCS '03, ACM SOSP '03, ISC '03, ACM PODC '03, EUROCRYPT '03, WPES '02 |
| Book/Journal Reviewer: Journal of Cryptology, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Handbook of Internet Security - P2P Security (Wiley & Sons), Computer Journal |
| RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE | |
| Illuminics Systems | Co-founder |
| Mountain View, CA | March 2006 - present |
| Commercialized IP analytics and geolocation research; acquired by Quova, Inc. in Nov 2006. | |
| Stanford University Secure Computer Systems | Research staff |
| Stanford, CA | Fall 2005 - present |
| U.C. Berkeley | Visiting Research Associate |
| Berkeley, CA | Summer 2005 |
| With Ion Stoica and Scott Shenker, researching problems with secure and fault-tolerant distributed systems. | |
| NYU Secure Computer Systems | Research Assistant |
| New York, NY | Fall 2002 - Spring 2005 |
| HP Labs, Trusted Systems Lab | Research Associate |
| Princeton, NJ | Summer 2003 |
| With Benny Pinkas, developed cryptographic protocols for private matching (two-party set intersection) and secure private information retrieval (SPIR), using a novel, efficient polynomial-construction technique. | |
| MIT Laboratory for Computer Science | |
| Cambridge, MA | Spring 1999 - Spring 2002 |
| Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Group | |
| (Spring 2001 - Spring 2002) Research assistant, Led the design and development of Tarzan, a peer-to-peer anonymous IP network layer that is strongly resistent to traffic analysis. | |
| Cryptography and Information Security Group | |
| (Spring 2000) Undergrad research. As part of the Free Haven Project, developing a system for the anonymous publishing, storage, and retrieval of information. A distributed network of Internet servers will be utilized for stronger privacy than most infrastructures currently deployed. | |
| Spoken Language Systems Group | |
| (Spring 1999 - Winter 2000) Undergrad research. Improved the graphical environment of real-time generated interfaces for the Jupiter (weather forecast) speech recognition/generation system, with Stephanie Seneff. Built statistical analysis tool for semantic frame composition. | |
| InterTrust Technologies, STAR Lab | Research Intern |
| Santa Clara, CA | Summer, 2001 |
| Researched practical techniques and theoretical cryptographic primitives for privacy for Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. Developed and simulated a new algorithm for peer-to-peer key-value lookups on a distributed trie with lazy consistency. | |
| Zero-Knowledge Systems Labs | Research Intern, Cryptography Group |
| Montreal, Quebec | Summer, 2000 |
| Designed and implemented a prototype system and API toolkit for electronic cash with Stefan Brands and Ian Goldberg. Researched electronic voting and cash protocols. | |
| Sun Microsystems | Intern, High Performance Computing Group |
| Burlington, MA | Summer, 1999 |
| Studied the use of parallel input/output in large-scale scientific modeling applications. Converted the ARPS weather model to use Sun MPI I/O, which allows the parallel execution of tasks atop a parallel file system. | |
| Cognex Corporation | Intern, Software Engineering |
| Natick, MA | Summer, 1998 |
| Developed GUI applications atop Cognex machine vision libraries. Specific tasks concerned the configurability of vision board security keys across NT networks. | |
| MIT Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory | Undergraduate Research Assistant |
| Cambridge, MA | Summer 1996, Fall 1997 - Winter 1998 |
| Investigated growth techniques of ferromagnetic MnBi thin films for use in magneto-optical recording and barrier tunneling junctions. Used X-ray diffraction, SQUID hysteresis-loop measurements, scanning-electron and atomic force microscopy, and Rutherford back scattering for analysis. | |
| Michigan State University | |
| East Lansing, MI | Summer 1995 |
| Developed tools for the graphical representation of algorithms that reduce run-time in distributed-memory supercomputers by balancing computations and data between nodes. | |
| 4-H Camp Shehaqua | Counselor |
| White Haven, PA | Summer 1993 - Summer 1997 |
| Worked as a counselor and adult staff at the week-long camp under the auspices of the 4-H Cooperative Extension Service of Penn State University. Created and ran a workshop about diversity, prejudice, and personal choice and responsibility. | |
| LEADERSHIP AND INTERESTS | |
| NYU Systems Reading Group Founder and Organizer | Summer 2003 - Spring 2005 |
| NYU Courant Student Organization Representative to faculty | Spring 2004 - Spring 2005 |
| MIT LCS Applied Security Reading Group, Co-organizer | Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 |
| MIT Outing Club | Fall 1997 - Spring 2002 |
| President, VP, Publicity. Helped organize and teach Winter School during IAP 2000 and 2002, a month-long series of lectures twice per week and trips every weekend. The series taught winter outdoors acitivites, including mountaineering, camping, cross-country skiing, and ice climbing. Organized numerous other weekend events and outdoor trips. Wrote grant proposals for both capital expenses and operating costs for the club (~$30K/yr). | |
| Interests: Rock climbing, mountaineering, ice climbing, backpacking. Some ocean and white water kayaking. | |
| National Space Society, NE PA chapter, Treasurer | 1996-1997 |
| World Union of Jewish Students | 1999 |
| US Representative. Attended Jerusalem conference '99, along with five other Americans. Helped develop outreach programs and initiatives for student groups, both in the US and abroad. | |
| Hillel Council of New England, MIT Representative | 1998-2000 |
| MIT Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, Awards Chair | 1998 - 1999 |
| Athletics: BAA 1998 Boston Marathon, Magdalen College Boat Club (Oxford crew), tennis, squash, soccer | |
