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MICHAEL
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FREEDMAN
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| Professor of Computer Science |
Princeton University
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| www.michaelfreedman.org |
| mfreed%cs-princeton-edu |
| May 1, 2014 |
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ACADEMICS |
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| Princeton University | Fall 2007 - present |
| Princeton, NJ |
| Full Professor of Computer Science |
2015 - present |
| Associate Professor of Computer Science (with tenure) |
July 2013 - 2015 |
| Assistant Professor of Computer Science |
Sept 2007 - June 2013 |
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| New York University,
Courant Institute | Fall 2002 - Summer 2007 |
| New York, NY |
| Ph.D., Computer Science, Sept 2007. |
| M.S., Computer Science, June 2005. |
| Advisor: David
Mazières |
| Dissertation: Democratizing Content Distribution |
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Stanford University | Fall 2005 - Summer 2007 |
| Stanford, CA |
| Research scholar. On leave from NYU to accompany my advisor. |
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| Massachusetts
Institute of Technology | Fall 1997 - Spring 2002 |
| Cambridge, MA |
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M.Eng., EECS, June 2002. |
Spring 2001 - Spring 2002 |
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Thesis: A Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer |
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Advisor: Robert Morris |
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Cumulative Graduate GPA: 5.0/5.0 |
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S.B., Computer Science and Eng., June 2001 |
Fall 1997 - Fall 2000 |
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Minor in Political Science.
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Undergrad Thesis Advisor: Ron Rivest |
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Cumulative Undergraduate GPA: 4.9/5.0 |
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| Oxford University,
Magdalen College |
Fall 2000 |
| Oxford, UK |
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Wyoming Valley West High School
| Fall 1993 - Spring 1997 |
| Plymouth, PA |
| Graduated Class Valedictorian (1/314). National Merit Finalist, A.P. Scholar with Distinction.
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HONORS
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Faculty Awards
- Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, 2012
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), nominated by the NSF and given by President Obama, 2011 (20 across NSF, 96 across all government agencies)
- Computer Science Study Group (CSSG),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 2011 (13 across computer science)
- Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2011
- CAREER Award (CSR), National Science Foundation (NSF), 2009
- Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research, 2009 (15 across science and engineering)
- E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award, Princeton Engineering, 2009 (for teaching and scholarship)
| Publication Awards
- Best Student Paper (for "Frientegrity"), USENIX Security 2012
- Selected papers (2 of 6 invited to ACM SIGOPS OSR special issue, for "JetStream" and "PISCES"), LADIS 2012
- IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize, Finalist (for NSDI Serval publication), 2012
- Community Award, honorable mention (for "Serval"), NSDI 2012
- Award paper (for "Commensal Cuckoo"), LADIS 2011. Publication in special issue of Operating Systems Review
- Highest-ranked paper (for "Ethane"), SIGCOMM 2007
Fast-tracking to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- Best demo award (for "OASIS"), WORLDS 2005
- Highest-ranked paper (for "Private Matching"), Eurocrypt 2004
- Award paper (for "Tarzan"), CCS 2002. Invited (declined) for fast-tracking to ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
| Doctoral Awards
- Nominated by NYU for ACM Doctoral Dissertation award, 2008
- Janet Fabri Prize, NYU Computer Science Dept., 2008 (for best Ph.D. dissertation)
- Henning Biermann Award, NYU Computer Science Dept., 2005 (for outstanding education and service)
- NDSEG (DoD) Graduate Fellow, 2002-2005
- NYU McCracken Fellow, 2002-2006
- Other awarded Graduate Fellowships: National Science Foundation (2002-2005); Gordon Wu Fellowship, Princeton (2001); Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale (2001); Graduate Fellowships, U.C. Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, UCSD (2001)
| Earlier Honors
- 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
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ADVISING
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Current
- PostDoc: Ariel Rabkin
- Ph.D.: Matvey Arye, Aaron Blankstein, Rob Kiefer, Xiaozhou Li, Fanglu (Annie) Liu, Amy Tai, Haoyu (Harris) Zhang
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- Research Scientists and PostDocs:
- Erik Nordström (2010-2011, then, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton, 2011-2013, then/now: Spotify, Infrastructure Group)
- Steven Ko (2009-2010, then/now: Asst Professor, SUNY-Buffalo)
- Ph.D.:
- David Shue (2008-2014, then/now: Google, Spanner Advanced Projects Team)
- Prem Gopalan (2009-2014, then/now: Voleon Capital Management)
- Wyatt Lloyd (2007-2013, then/now: Asst. Professor, University of Southern California)
- Siddhartha Sen (2007-2013, then/now: Researcher, Microsoft Research -- Silicon Valley)
- Jeffrey Terrace (2007-2012, then/now: Google, Cloud Infrastructure Group)
- Masters students:
Robert Soule (2004, NYU, then NYU PhD), Jeff Borden (2004, NYU), Justin Pettit (2007, Stanford, then Nicira Networks), Muneeb Ali (2011, then Princeton PhD), Matvey Arye (2011, then Princeton PhD), Nick Jones (2012, then Elysium Digital), Scott Erickson (2014, then Amazon), Marcela Melara (2014, then Princeton PhD)
- Undergraduates:
NYU: Kevin Shanahan, Ed Kupershlak (2003-2004); Stanford: Jeffrey Spehar (2006-2007);
Princeton: Hal Laidlaw, Mark Spear (2007-2008); Newton Allen, Hao Eric Liu, Andrew Schran,
Sean Stern, Jennifer Yu (2008-2009); Paul Cavallaro, Dmitri Garbuzov, Andrew Gwozdz, Sajid
Mehmood, Chris Rucinski (2009-2010); Kay Ousterhout, Patrick Wendell (2009-2011); Gabrielle Chen, Emily
Lancaster, Eddy Ferreira, Brandon Podmayersky, Zhihong Xu (2010-2011);
Michael Franklin, Amy Ousterhout (2011-2012); Nicolas Crowell, Craig Liebmann, Torin Rudeen, Anna Kornfeld Simpson, Andrew Werner (2012–2013);
Kiiru (Samuel) Gichohi, Andrew Grasso, Gregory Owen (2013-2014).
Ph.D. Committee
- Reader: Changhoon Kim (2008), Haakon Ringberg (2010), Yi Wang (2010), Minlan Yu (2011), Anirudh Badam (2012), Ariel Feldman (2012), Wonho Kim (2012), Ewen Cheslack-Postava (2013, Stanford), Tahir Azim (2013, Stanford)
- Non-Reader: Elliott Karpilovsky (2008), William Josephson (2010), Sunghwan Ihm (2011), Yaping Zhu (2011), Joe Wenjie Jiang (2011), Harlan Yu (2012)
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PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVIES
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Technical Program Chairs:
SOSP '13: Workshop Chair
HotDep '12: Co-Chair
IPTPS '10: Co-Chair
NSDI '09: Poster Chair
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Technical Program Committee:
NSDI '14
NSDI '13,
HotOS '13,
HotDep '13
NSDI '12,
FOCI '12
SIGCOMM '11,
HotOS '11,
CCS '11,
FOCI '11
OSDI '10,
NSDI '10,
IPTPS '10
SOSP '09,
USENIX Technical '09,
IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland) '09,
NSDI '09,
LADIS '09,
IPTPS '09
CCS '08,
IPTPS '08,
CT-RSA '08,
ROADS '08
WORLDS '06,
UPGRADE-CDN '06
IRIS Student P2P Workshop '03
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External Reviewer:
NSDI '11,
NSDI '08,
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
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Book/Journal Reviewer:
Communications of the ACM,
Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS),
Transactions on Networking (TON),
SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR),
Journal of Computer Security,
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC),
Handbook of Internet Security - P2P Security (Wiley & Sons),
Computer Journal
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RESEARCH AND
WORK
EXPERIENCE |
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Princeton University,
Dept. of Computer Science
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Faculty Member |
| Princeton, NJ |
Fall 2007 - present |
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| Illuminics Systems
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Co-founder |
| Mountain View, CA |
March 2006 - September 2007 |
| Commercialized IP analytics and geolocation research; acquired by Quova, Inc. in Nov 2006. |
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Stanford University,
Secure Computer Systems
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Research staff |
| Stanford, CA |
Fall 2005 - Summer 2007 |
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U.C. Berkeley |
Visiting Research Associate |
| Berkeley, CA |
Summer 2005 |
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NYU, Secure Computer Systems |
Research Assistant |
| New York, NY |
Fall 2002 - Spring 2005 |
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| HP Labs,
Trusted Systems Lab |
Research Associate |
| Princeton, NJ |
Summer 2003 |
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| MIT Laboratory for Computer Science |
Research Assistant |
| Cambridge, MA |
Spring 1999 - Spring 2002 |
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Parallel & Distributed Operating Systems |
Spring 2001 - Spring 2002 |
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Cryptography & Information Security |
Spring 2000 |
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Spoken Language Systems |
Spring 1999 - Winter 2000 |
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| InterTrust
Technologies, STAR Lab |
Research Intern |
| Santa Clara, CA | Summer, 2001 |
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| Zero-Knowledge Systems Labs |
Research Intern, Cryptography Group |
| Montreal, Quebec | Summer, 2000 |
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| Sun Microsystems |
Intern, High Performance Computing Group |
| Burlington, MA | Summer, 1999 |
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| Cognex Corporation |
Intern, Software Engineering |
| Natick, MA | Summer, 1998 |
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| MIT Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory |
Undergraduate Research Assistant |
| Cambridge, MA | Summer 1996, Fall 1997 - Winter 1998 |
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| Michigan State University |
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| East Lansing, MI | Summer 1995 |
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CONSULTING AND
ADVISORY
POSITIONS |
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| Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) |
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| Alexandria, VA | June 2011 - present |
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| Intelligent Automation, Inc. |
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| Rockville, MD | June 2011 - December 2013 |
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Helping design survivable and secure content
distribution network for dynamic tactical environments, as part of AFOSR project.
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| CloudFlare |
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| Bay Area, CA | March 2009 - August 2010 |
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Advised security startup that protects websites from malicious online
behavior, by proxying and filteringWeb traffic while providing CDN and DNS service.
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| NetFlix, Inc. |
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| Los Gatos, CA | August 2007 - September 2008 |
| Helped design a content distribution
network and data-center architecture to support online distribution of
short and full-length videos. |
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| Quova, Inc. |
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| Mountain View, CA | November 2006 - September 2007 |
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Helped design and build GeoPoint v6.0, an IP geolocation and
analytics platform, which incorporated architectural and technical aspects of illuminati research.
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Legal consulting and expert references available upon request.
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SERVICE
ACTIVITIES |
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| Princeton, Child Care Provider Selection Working Group |
Spring 2013 |
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| Princeton CS Department, Faculty Hiring Search Committee |
Winter 2012 - Spring 2013 |
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| Princeton CS Department, Curriculum Committee, Chair |
Summer 2012 - present |
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| Princeton, University Committee on Grading |
Fall 2010 - Summer 2013 |
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| Princeton, Wilson College, Academic Advisor (Freshman and Sophomore A.B. Majors) and Faculty Fellow |
Fall 2010 - present |
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| Princeton CS Department, Colloquia Organizer |
Fall 2009 - present |
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| Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy,
Faculty Associate |
Spring 2008 - present |
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| Princeton CS Department,
Academic Advisor, B.S.E. Majors, Class of 2011 |
Spring 2008 - Spring 2011 |
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| Princeton Engineering, Freshman Advisor, B.S.E. Majors |
Fall 2008 - Spring 2010 |
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| Princeton Center for Jewish Life,
Faculty Fellow |
Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 |
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| NYU Systems Reading Group,
Founder and Organizer |
Summer 2003 - Spring 2005 |
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| NYU Courant Student Organization,
Representative to faculty |
Spring 2004 - Spring 2005 |
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| MIT LCS Applied Security Reading Group, Co-organizer |
Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 |
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MIT Outing Club, President, VP, Publicity |
Fall 1997 - Spring 2002 |
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