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Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Boston University
111 Cummington St
Boston, MA 02215

Office hours, Spring 2013
Tuesday 1:30-2:30 PM, 5:15-7:15 PM

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, and a member of the BU Security Group. As a network security researcher, my work uses tools from theory (cryptography, game-theory, algorithms) and networking (measurement, modeling, and simulation) to understand the hurdles practitioners face when deploying new security technologies, and to develop solutions that surmount them.

Prior to joining BU, I was a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New England. In July 2009, I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University, advised by Jennifer Rexford and Boaz Barak. During my Ph.D., I spent time with the crypto group at IBM Research and interned at Cisco Research. I also organized various events for women in science and engineering, including this and this.

• Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? BGP Security in Partial Deployment
  Robert Lychev, Sharon Goldberg, Michael Schapira.
  SIGCOMM'13, Hong Kong, China. August 2013.
      (paper to be posted soon)
  
  
• Impacting IP Prefix Reachability via RPKI Manipulations
  Kyle Brogle, Danny Cooper, Sharon Goldberg and Leonid Reyzin.
  Boston University Technical Report. January 4, 2013.
      paper    project page
  
  
• Sequential Aggregate Signatures with Lazy Verification from Trapdoor Permutations
  Kyle Brogle, Sharon Goldberg, and Leonid Reyzin.
  AISACRYPT'12. Beijing, China. December 2012.
      paper     slides     code     project page
  
  
• The Diffusion of Networking Technologies
  Sharon Goldberg and Zhenming Liu.
  SODA'13. New York, NY. January 2013.
      paper    slides     blog post
  • See also my tutorial at EC'12:   slides   bib
  
  

• CS558 - Network Security. (Privacy, Anonymity, and Online Censorship). (Spring 2013)
• CS237 - Probability in Computing (Fall 2012). Website on blackboard.
• CS558 - Network Security (Spring 2012)
• CS237 - Probability in Computing (Fall 2011). Website on blackboard.
• CS237 - Probability in Computing (Spring 2011). Website on blackboard.
• CS591 - Seminar in Network Security (Fall 2010)

• Danny Cooper (BU undergraduate)
• Robert Lychev (visiting from GATech since Aug'11)
• Davide Proserpio
• Allan Wirth (BU undergraduate)

• Jef Guarente (BU MS. Co-advised with Leo Reyzin. Graduated January 2013. Thesis: "Study of the computational efficiency of single-server private information retrieval.")
• Kyle Brogle. (BU undergraduate. Graduated 2012, now a grad student at Stanford.)
• Phillipa Gill (University of Toronto graduate student, visited Fall 2010. Started postdoc at Citizen Lab, before joining Stonybrook University as an assistant professor in Sept 2013.)

Applications:     I am always looking for motivated students and postdocs interested in network security. Right now, I am especially interested in students with strong programming skills -- if you hack, write to me and tell me about some of the projects you've done!
If you are already at BU and are interested working with me or others in the BU Security Group, please enroll in my network security course. Otherwise, apply to the graduate program in Computer Science at Boston University.

Program Committee:    CoNext'13   |    NSDI'13 poster and demo session   |    HotCloud'13   |    IMC 2012   |    HotCloud 2012   |    SysStore 2012   |    SIGCOMM 2011   |    NetEcon 2011   |    CoNEXT Student Workshop 2010   |    HotCloud 2010   |    NetEcon 2010   |    NetEcon 2009  

Organization Committee:     BFOC'13 (Boston Freedom in Online Communications Day)     SIGCOMM'12

Currently supported by two NSF awards from the Trusted Computing program, and a gift from Cisco.