The Mozilla Security Research summit will be hosted in San Francisco as part of Mozilla's Security Engineering University Relationship Framework (SURF) initiative. This initiative aims to increase collaboration between Mozilla and the academic community, so as to leverage academic talent to help explore Mozilla-specific security and privacy engineering research problems, and to strengthen Mozilla's ties to the academic community.
The summit audience will
consist of a mix of Mozilla engineers, academics, and PhD students. Our
intention is for Mozilla engineers to "pitch" research problems to the
academic community, so as to spark potential collaboration. Our
engineers and researchers plan to deliver talks covering areas such as
tracking protection, language-based security, cryptography, web
measurement and machine learning. The day will also include some
high-caliber talks from security and privacy academics, as well as some
fast-paced PhD lightning talks. The event will include ample time for
discussion throughout the day and will conclude with a panel discussion.
Please join us to help improve the open web!
Muhammad Ahmad Bashir (Northeastern University)
Matt Bernard (University of Michigan)
Sarah Bird (Mozilla)
Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
Fraser Brown (Stanford University)
Nikita Borisov (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Benton Case (Stanford University)
Quan Chen (North Carolina State University)
Anupam Das (North Carolina State University)
Steve Checkoway (Oberlin)
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (Stanford)
Zakir Durumeric (Stanford University)
Serge Egelman (UC Berkeley (ICSI))
Steven Englehardt (Mozilla)
Roya Ensafi (University of Michigan)
Michael Franz (UC Irvine)
Christina Garman (Purdue University)
John Hale (University of Tulsa)
Diane Hosfeldt (Mozilla)
Anushah Hossain (UC Berkeley)
Umar Iqbal (University of Iowa)
J.C. Jones (Mozilla)
Chris Kanich (University of Illinois Chicago)
Christoph Kerschbaumer (Mozilla)
Engin Kirda (Northeastern University)
Per Larsen (UC Irvine)
Wennie Leung (Mozilla)
Dave Levin (University of Maryland)
Damon McCoy (New York University)
Thyla van der Merwe (Mozilla)
Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)
Anthony Miyaguchi (Mozilla)
Reethika Ramesh (University of Michigan)
Sanjeev Reddy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Thomas Ristenpart (Cornell Tech)
Zubair Shafiq (University of Iowa)
Thomas Shrimpton (Florida State University)
Michael Smith (UC San Diego)
Dawn Song (UC Berkeley)
Deian Stefan (UC San Diego)
Michael Carl Tschantz (UC Berkeley (ICSI))
Giridhari Venkatadri (Northeastern University)
Daniel Veditz (Mozilla)
Tanvi Vyas (Mozilla)
Christo Wilson (Northeastern University)
Kathleen Wilson (Mozilla)
Kelsey Witthauer (Mozilla)
Andrew Yeung (Mozilla)
Shitong Zhu (UC Riverside)
Steven works as a privacy engineer at Mozilla, where he designs and builds privacy features for Firefox. He received a PhD in Computer Science in the Security Group at Princeton University, where he worked in the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). His dissertation research focuses on the automated measurement of privacy-invasive practices on the web.
Thyla manages Cryptography Engineering at Mozilla, and her work encompasses security protocol analysis and standardisation efforts. Prior to starting at Mozilla, Thyla completed a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. Thyla's PhD thesis is TLS-focused and presents attacks against TLS 1.2 and below, and an analysis of TLS 1.3, contributing to the newer "analysis-prior-to-deployment" design process followed by the IETF for TLS 1.3.
Christoph is the Content Security Tech Lead at Mozilla with over 10 years of experience in Secure Systems Development. His work ranges from designing systems with fail safe defaults to fighting cross site scripting as well as preventing man-in-the-middle attacks.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine where he based his research on information flow tracking techniques within web browsers.
Sarah is a Senior Research Engineer in the Systems Research Group at Mozilla. Her research focuses on developing statistical techniques for detecting tracking technologies. Previously, Sarah was a software engineer engaged in building websites, tools for data science, and open data standards. Sarah holds masters' degrees in Technology and Policy from MIT and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Thomas Ristenpart is an Associate Professor at Cornell Tech and a member of the Computer Science department at Cornell University. His research spans a wide range of computer security topics, with recent focuses including digital privacy and safety in intimate partner violence, new threats to, and improved opportunities for, cloud computing security, confidentiality and privacy in machine learning, and topics in applied and theoretical cryptography.
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford, advised by Dan Boneh. His interests are in online privacy, cryptography, and computer security. Most recently, Henry has contributed to the design and implementation of an experimental telemetry system for Firefox that offers its users strengthened privacy protections.
Kelsey Witthauer currently serves as Project Manager on Mozilla's Diversity and Inclusion team, working to make diverse voices heard across Mozilla. Prior to her time at Mozilla, Kelsey worked in the field of healthcare, driving efforts to expand access to affordable medical care across the globe. Kelsey is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in HR Management with an emphasis on Corporate Diversity and Inclusion at Georgetown University. She holds bachelor's degrees from Ohio State University and Ohio University in Speech Pathology and Business. Kelsey's passion is bringing people together through collaboration and belonging.
Andrew Yeung currently serves as a University Relations Program Lead at Mozilla who partners with students, professors, and career center advocates to hire interns and college graduates on teams that specialize in technical and non-technical disciplines. After spending the last five years working in University Recruiting, Andrew believes recruiting should be treated as a partnership and building relationships with hiring managers and candidates alike is of the utmost importance. He and the University Team at Mozilla understand that the key to a successful internship or first job out of college is matching the values and desires of the candidate with that of the organization.
Prior
to joining Mozilla, Andrew was a University Recruiting Manager at Gap
Inc. specializing in all roles related to technological and digital
functions. This is where his love and passion for campus recruiting
blossomed and he learned the ins and outs of how to best match students
with their dream jobs. His philosophy is simple and taken directly from
former GE Executive, Larry Bossidy, “I am convinced that nothing we do
is more important than hiring and developing the right people. At the
end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”
Andrew holds a BS in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.
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