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Rachel Greenstadt
Maxwell-Dworkin 110 Mobile: (818)825-0302
33 Oxford Street Email: greenie@eecs.harvard.edu
Cambridge, MA 02138
Research Focus:
Electronic privacy, privacy properties of distributed constraint optimization algorithms, privacy and
security models for multi-agent systems, economic aspects of electronic privacy and information
security.
Education
Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Computer Science, June 2007, Dissertation: "Improving Privacy in Distributed Constraint
Optimization", Advisor: Michael D. Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002, Thesis: "Zebrafish: A Stegano-
graphic System", Advisor: Robert Morris
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, 2001
Research Experience
Center for Research in Computation and Society Cambridge, MA
Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow July2007--present
Research at the intersection of AI and Privacy/Security.
Advisors: Michael D. Smith, Barbara Grosz and Greg Morissett
Harvard University: SEAS Cambridge, MA
Graduate Researcher June 2002--June 2007
Censorship resistence and digital preservation, the economics of privacy and trusted computing
issues and privacy in distributed constraint optimization.
Advisor: Michael D. Smith
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Visiting Scholar Summer, 2005
Experimental analysis of privacy in DCOP algorithms.
Advisor: Milind Tambe
Lawrence Livermore National Labs Livermore, CA
Summer Intern Summer, 2004
Worked in the cybersecurity group on anti-censorship technologies.
Advisor: Terry Brugger
MIT Lab for Computer Science Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant Summer, 2001
Built a web proxy to collect ephemeral cookies, researched collecting cookies transmitted using SSL
and wrote web-based materials to explain client authentication on the web.
Advisors: Kevin Fu, Frans Kaashoek
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Cambridge, MA
Research Intern June--December, 2000
Research in human computer interaction. Redesigned the Software Construction Kits for learning;
revised and reworked the Bones animation kit for use at the Museum of Science.
Advisor: Carol Strohecker
Honors
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fellow, 2003--2006
Robert C. Byrd Scholar 1997-2001
Referreed Publications
Rachel Greenstadt, Barbara Grosz and Michael D. Smith. "SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy of
DCOP with Secret Sharing," AAMAS (short paper), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2007.
Rachel Greenstadt, Jon P. Pearce and Milind Tambe. "Analysis of Privacy Loss in Distributed
Constraint Optimization," AAAI, Boston, Massachusetts, July 2006.
Rachel Greenstadt and Michael D. Smith. "Collaborative Scheduling: Threats and Promises," Fifth
Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security Cambridge, England, June 2006. WEIS
is `the event to aim for if you want to keep up with research in [the economics of information security]'
Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Rachel Greenstadt, Jon P. Pearce, Emma Bowring and Milind Tambe. "An Experimental Analyis
of Privacy Loss in DCOP Algorithms," Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents
and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006) (short paper), Hakodate, Japan, May 812, 2006.
Rachel Greenstadt and Michael D. Smith. "Protecting Personal Information: Obstacles and Di-
rections," Fourth Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Cambridge, Mas-
sachusetts, May 2005.
Tony Vila, Rachel Greenstadt, and David Molnar. "Why We Can't Be Bothered to Read Privacy
Policies: Privacy as a Lemons Market," Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce
(ICEC 2003), Pittsburgh, PA, October 2003. Also presented at Second Annual Workshop on Eco-
nomics and Information Security, College Park, Maryland, May 2003.
Stuart E. Schechter, Rachel A. Greenstadt, and Michael D. Smith. "Trusted Computing, Peer-
to-Peer Distribution, and the Economics of Pirated Entertainment," Second Annual Workshop on
Economics and Information Security, College Park, Maryland, May 2003.
Jon Giffin, Rachel Greenstadt, Peter Litwack, and Richard Tibbetts. "Covert Messaging in TCP
Timestamps," Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET
2002), volume 2482, Springer-Verlag, San Francisco, CA, April 2002. [Acceptance rate 35%]
Book Chapters
Tony Vila, Rachel Greenstadt, and David Molnar. "Why We Can't Be Bothered to Read Privacy
Policies: Privacy as a Lemons Market,", in Economics of Information Security. Vol. 12 of Advances in
Information Security, eds. L. Jean Camp and Stephen Lewis. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Stuart E. Schechter, Rachel A. Greenstadt, and Michael D. Smith. "Trusted Computing, Peer-
to-Peer Distribution, and the Economics of Pirated Entertainment," in Economics of Information
Security. Vol. 12 of Advances in Information Security, eds. L. Jean Camp and Stephen Lewis.
Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Doctoral Consortia
Rachel Greenstadt. "Privatizing Constraint Optimization," Sigart/AAAI Doctoral Consortium,
Boston, Massachusetts, July 2006.
Rachel Greenstadt. "Privatizing Constraint Optimization," AAMAS Doctoral Mentoring Program,
Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
Workshop Papers
Rachel Greenstadt, Barbara Grosz, and Michael D. Smith. "SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy
of DCOP with Secret Sharing," Distributed Constraint Reasoning Workshop (DCR), Providence,
Rhode Island, September 2007.
Rachel Greenstadt, Jon P. Pearce, Emma Bowring and Milind Tambe. "An Experimental Analyis of
Privacy Loss in DCOP Algorithms," Distributed Constraint Reasoning Workshop, Hakodate, Japan,
May 8, 2006.
Selected Presentations
"Security in Virtualized Environments," 2nd Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad Informatica
(EISI), University of Manizales, Colombia, October 4, 2007. Also presented at Harvard CRCS
seminar.
"Intrusion Detection and Response in LOCKSS," Qualifying Exam Talk, Harvard University, Cam-
bridge, MA, September 30, 2004.
"Tools for Censorship Resistance," DEFCON 12, Las Vegas, NV, July 30, 2004.
"Applications of Trusted Computing for Medical Privacy," PORTIA Workshop on Sensitive Data,
Stanford, CA, July 8, 2004.
Program Committees
Program co-chair: 10th International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) 2008
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2008
23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2008
7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2008
8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2008
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2007
Other Service
Reviewer: Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)
Reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Reviewer: Journal of Privacy Technology
Numerous External Reviews
Teaching Fellowships and Assistantships
CS50: Introduction to Computer Science I, Harvard University, Fall 2005
CS243: Network Security Protocols, Harvard University, Spring 2003
6.046: Introduction to Algorithms, MIT, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001