Rachel Greenstadt

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS) at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University where I research the privacy and security properties of multi-agent systems and the economics of electronic privacy and information security.

In September, I will begin a faculty position as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University.

• Publications
• Presentations
• Honors
• Service
• Articles and Notes
• Degree Programs
• Teaching
• Employment
• Advisors

Publications

• Refereed Publications
  • Oliver Day, Brandon Palmen, and Rachel Greenstadt. Reinterpreting the Disclosure Debate for Web Infections, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 2008.
  • Rachel Greenstadt, Barbara Grosz, and Michael D. Smith. SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy of DCOP with Secret Sharing (short paper), Sixth Annual Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Honolulu, Hawai'i, 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 Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Cambridge, England, June 2006.
  • Rachel Greenstadt, Jon P. Pearce, Emma Bowring and Milind Tambe. An Experimental Analysis of Privacy Loss in DCOP Algorithms, Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
  • Rachel Greenstadt and Michael D. Smith. Protecting Personal Information: Obstacles and Directions, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2005.
  • Tony Vila, Rachel Greenstadt, 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 the Second International Workshop on Economics and Information Security, College Park, Maryland, May 2003.
  • Stuart Schecter, Rachel Greenstadt, Mike Smith, Trusted Computing, Peer-To-Peer Distribution, and the Economics of Pirated Entertainment, Second International Workshop on Economics and Information Security, College Park, Maryland, May 2003.
  • John Giffen, Rachel Greenstadt, Peter Litwack, Richard Tibbetts, Covert Messaging in TCP, Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), April 2002
• 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.
• Book Chapters
  • Tony Vila, Rachel Greenstadt, 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 Schecter, Rachel Greenstadt, 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.
• Workshop Papers
  • Rachel Greenstadt and Jacob Beal. Cognitive Security for Personal Devices, The First ACM Workshop on AISec, Alexandria, Virginia, October 2008.
  • Rachel Greenstadt. An analysis of privacy loss in k-optimal algorithms, Distributed Constraint Reasoning Workshop (DCR), Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
  • 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 Analysis of Privacy Loss in DCOP Algorithms, Distributed Constraint Reasoning Workshop (DCR), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
• Theses
  • Rachel Greenstadt. Improving Privacy in Distributed Constraint Optimization, Harvard PhD Thesis, May 2007.
  • Rachel Greenstadt, Zebrafish: A Steganographic System MIT M.Eng. Thesis thesis under supervision of Robert Morris, May 2002

Presentations

• "Security in Virtualized Environments." Presented at the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), Harvard University, October 10, 2007 2nd Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad Informatica (EISI), University of Manizales, Colombia, October 4, 2007
• "Security in Virtualized Environments." Presented at 2nd Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad Informatica (EISI), University of Manizales, Colombia, October 3, 2007
• "SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy of DCOP with Secret Sharing." Presented at the Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) Workshop, September 23, 2007
• "Improving Privacy in Distributed Constraint Optimization." Thesis defense, Presented at Harvard University, April 22, 2007
• "SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy of DCOP with Secret Sharing." Presented at IBM TJ Watson Laboratory, April 9, 2007
• "SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy of DCOP with Secret Sharing." Presented at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, March 9, 2007
• "SSDPOP: Improving the Privacy of DCOP with Secret Sharing." Presented at Carnegie Mellon University, December 9, 2006
• "Analysis of Privacy Loss in Distributed Constraint Optimization" Presented at IBM TJ Watson Laboratory, October 12, 2006
• "Interesting Happenings at the Privcy Enhancing Technologies Workshop." Presented at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, August 28, 2006
• "Analysis of Privacy Loss in Distributed Constraint Optimization." Presented at AAAI, July 18, 2006
• "Privatizing Constraint Optimization." Presented at the AAAI/Sigart Doctoral Consortium, July 16, 2006
• "Collaborative Scheduling: Threats and Promises." Presented at the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. Cambridge, UK, June 28, 2006
• "Experimental Analysis of Privacy Loss in DCOP Algorithms." Presented at the Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) Workshop, May 8, 2006
• "Privatizing Constraint Optimization." Presented at the AAMAS Doctoral Consortium, May 8, 2006
• "Experimental Analysis of Privacy Loss in DCOP Algorithms." Presented at Harvard's Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG) Seminar, February 2, 2006
• "Protecting Personal Information: Obstacles and Directions." Seminar talk, Univerity of Southern California, TEAMCORE group, July 2005.
• "Protecting Personal Information: Obstacles and Directions." Presented at the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. Cambridge, MA, June 3, 2005
• "Tools for Censorship Resistance." Presented at The First International Ethical Hacking congress. Santa Cruz, Bolivia, March 2, 2005.
• "Tools for Censorship Resistance." Presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Livermore, CA, August 2005.
• Rachel Greenstadt, ``Intrusion Detection and Response in LOCKSS'', PDF, Qualifying Exam Talk, Harvard University, September 30, 2004.
• Rachel Greenstadt, ``Tools for Censorship Resistance'', PDF, DEFCON 12, July 30, 2004.
• Rachel Greenstadt and Jean-Francoid Raymond, ``Applications of Trusted Computing for Medical Privacy'', PDF, abstract, Portia Workshop on Sensitive Data, July 8, 2004.
• Rachel Greenstadt, ``Covert Channels'', PDF presented to Securitas, Harvard University, October 27, 2003.
• Rachel Greenstadt, ``Why We Can't Be Bothered To Read Privacy Policies: Privacy as a Lemons Market,''PPT presented at the ICEC, Pittsburgh,PA, October 2, 2003.
• Rachel Greenstadt, ``Why We Can't Be Bothered To Read Privacy Policies: Privacy as a Lemons Market,''PPT presented at the Second International Workshop on Economics and Information Security., College Park, MD, May 29, 2003.
• Rachel Greenstadt, "Covert Messaging Through TCP Timestamps," Presented at the Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. San Francisco, April 15, 2002
• Rachel Greenstadt, "Covert Messaging Through TCP Timestamps," Applied Security Reading Group(ASRG), MIT, February 2002
• Rachel Greenstadt, "Timing Attacks against SSH," Applied Security Reading Group(ASRG), MIT, September 2001
• Rachel Greenstadt, Noah Appleton, Jeff Henrikson, "Software Construction Kits," Mitsubishi Electronics Research Labs, CRL, August 2000
• Rachel Greenstadt, "Electronic Voting," Cryptography and Information Security Group (CIS), MIT Lab for Computer Science, February 2000

Honors

• U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fellow, 2003-2006
• Robert C. Byrd Scholar 1997-2001

Service

• 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
• Journal/Book Reviews
  • Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-AGent Systems (JAAMAS)
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, edited by Edward Knightly
  • Journal of Privacy Technology, edited by Lori Cranor
• External Conference Reviews
  • Financial Cryptography 2007
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop 2006
  • The 4th Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-4)
  • Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) 2004
  • International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2004)
  • The 3rd Annual International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO-3)
  • 12th Annual Usenix Security Symposium 2003

Articles and Notes

• Rachel Greenstadt, Jon P. Pearce, Emma Bowring and Milind Tambe, DCOP Privacy Experiments, Extended Results
• Summaries of the 2001 USENIX Security Symposium, ;login:, November 2001
  • Reading Between the Lines: Lessons From the SDMI Challenge
  • Authentication Session
• Electronic Voting Bibliography
• Glossary of Client Authentication

Degree Programs

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, VI-3, MIT, June 2001
• Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VI-P, MIT, June 2002
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Improving Privacy in Distributed Constraint Optimization, May 2007

Teaching Experience

• Introduction to Computer Science I (Harvard - CS 50)
  Fall 2005: under Professor Mike Smith
  
• Network Security Protocols (Harvard - CS 243)
  Spring 2003: under Professor Radia Perlman
  Graded weekly problem sets and quizzes, held weekly sections and office hours, gave guest lecture. Nominated for DEAS Teaching Fellow award.
• Introduction to Algorithms (MIT - 6.046)
  Spring 2002: under Professors Piotr Indyk and Michel Goemmans
  Fall 2001: under Professors Charles Leiserson and Erik Demaine
  Spring 2001: under Professors Madhu Sudan and Piotr Indyk
  Designed problem set and exam questions, taught weekly recitations
  Grader for problem sets, Spring 2000
  Tutor in high school math, 1994-1999

Employment Experience

• Harvard Computer Science Network Laboratory, Research Assistant, (Summer 2002), I work with Professor H.T. Kung on security analysis and design of an IP-layer anonymizing infrastructure.
• MIT Lab for Computer Science, Research Assistant, (Summer 2001) I worked with Kevin Fu, Frans Kaashoek and the Cookie Eaters Group on the cookie collection project. I 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.
• Mitsubishi Electronics Research Lab, Research Intern, (Summer-Fall 2000) I worked with Dr. Carol Strohecker on human computer interaction research. My work focused on redesiging the Software Construction Kits for learning. In particular, I revised and reworked the Bones kit for use in the Museum of Science. This kit allows a user to create a creature and then animate it.
• Litton Guidance and Control Systems, Intern, (Summers 1999, 1998) I worked on programming, debugging and building simulators for helicopter control systems in Java, Ada and C. I also performed unit testing and wrote documentation. I designed and produced slides of the system for a presentation to the government of New Zealand.

Advisors, Past and Present

• Mike Smith, PhD advisor, Harvard
• Barbara Grosz, Dissertation Committee, Harvard
• Milind Tambe, Dissertation Committee, USC
• H.T. Kung, research supervisor, Harvard
• Robert Morris, M.Eng thesis supervisor, MIT
• Frans Kaashoek, R.A. supervisor, undergraduate advisor, MIT
• Kevin Fu, R.A. supervisor
• Carol Strohecker research supervisor, MERL
• Ron Rivest, UROP supervisor, MIT