I recently joined the Security and Privacy Research Group here at Microsoft Research.  I am interested in a broad range of security topics (e.g., network and system security, applied cryptography, usable security, and data privacy), as well as topics such as operating system design, distributed systems, and mobile computing.  My current work investigates primitives for building secure systems, next-generation application models, security challenges in data center networks, and cryptographic techniques for outsourcing computation.

I completed my PhD at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Adrian Perrig.  My dissertation studies the design, implementation, and evaluation of a combination of hardware, software, and cryptographic primitives for extending the trust you have in one service or device in order to allow you to trust other services and devices.

Earlier in my career, I studied computer science at Harvard University.

News

• December 19, 2011 - I was selected for Forbes' 30-Under-30: Science list.
• August 30, 2011 - Our book has been published!  It can be purchased from Springer or Amazon. 
• May 11, 2011 - My dissertation won the 2010 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award!

Professional Activities

• Program Committee, ACM Conference on Computer & Communications Security (CCS), 2012
• Program Committee, ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW), 2012
• Program Committee, Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST), 2012
• Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 2012
• Program Committee, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012
• Program Committee, Conference on Cryptology and Network Security (CANS), 2011
• Program Committee, Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011
• Program Committee, IACR Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography (PKC), 2011
• Program Committee, APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, 2010
• Program Committee, PhD Forum of The Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 2010
• Program Committee, APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, 2009
• Program Committee, Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference, 2009