·         Research Overview

My group is focused on privacy research.   Broadly, we are interested in the question of whether we can make existing web-based services more private.   Since so many web-based services are supported by advertising, the first phase of this research agenda is to find ways of doing targeted advertising without tracking.   Towards this end, we have developed a system called Privad.   The project page is at: http://adresearch.mpi-sws.org/ .

 

Past Research Projects

 

Current PhD Student Researchers

Alexey Reznichenko

Istemi Ekin Akkus

 

Current Postdocs

Ruichuan Chen

Stevens La Blond

 

 

Past PhD Student Researchers

Hitesh Ballani

Saikat Guha

Vidhyashankar Venkataraman

Vivek Vishnumurthy

Xinyang (Joy) Zhang

Manpreet Singh, ``End-to-End Techniques for Network Resource Management,'' Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Summer 2006. Co-advised by Prashant Pradhan, IBM.  Employment: Google.  (Also received offers from Cisco, Oracle, AskJeeves, Citigroup and Lehman Brothers)

 

Past Postdocs

Bin Cheng

Saikat Guha