EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

PhD Candidate:	Computer Science (August 04 - Present)
Advisor:	Professor Margo Seltzer
Research:	Provenance Aware Storage Systems (PASS)
Research Topic:	Data Provenance -- the complete history of a data item. Our approach requires no active involvement on the part of the application. My focus is on security, analysis and querying of the collected provenance.
Passed Qualifying Exam in January 07, titled: An Access Control Model for Provenance

WPI -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA
B.S. Computer Science, with Distinction, 2000

EXPERIENCE

IBM Research Summer Intern Almaden Research Center (June - August 06)

• Investigated issues in distributed privacy enforcement by extending Hippocratic Databases (HDB) with Sticky Policies. HDB rewrites queries so they adhere to privacy policies. Sticky policies encapsulate data and policy enabling privacy enforcement in distributed environments.
• Designed and implemented successful proof of concept
• Investigated applying sticky policies to electronic medical records

IBM Research Summer Intern Haifa Research Lab (June - August 05)

• Investigated options for implementing Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
• Designed and implemented successful proof of concept
• Developed comparison criteria and applied them to several architectural options

EMC Senior Software Engineer Symmetrix R&D (August 00 - August 04)

• Assisted in the development of the low latency Message Matrix - a hallmark of the recently released DMX, DMX-2 and DMX-3 architectures
• Designed, implemented and supported several internal messaging fabrics including: internal Ethernet and the environmental monitoring fabric

PUBLICATIONS

• Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Uri Braun, David A. Holland, Peter Macko Diana Maclean, Daniel Margo, Margo Seltzer, and Robin Smogor, Layering in Provenance Systems, to appear In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX "09), San Diego, CA, June 2009 (PDF).
• Uri Braun, Avraham Shinnar, and Margo Seltzer, Securing Provenance, In Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec "08), San Jose, CA, July 2008. (PDF, HTML).
• David A. Holland, Uri Braun, Diana Maclean, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Margo Seltzer, Choosing a Data Model and Query Language for Provenance, In Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW "08), June, 2008.
• David A. Holland,, Margo Seltzer, Uri Braun, and Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, PASSing the provenance challenge, In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE "08), September 2007.
• Uri Braun, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, and Margo Seltzer, The Provenance Challenge: PASS, http://twiki.ipaw.info/view/Challenge/PASS September, 2006.
• Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, and Margo Seltzer. Provenance Aware Storage Systems, In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX "06), Boston, MA, June 2006.
• Uri Braun, Simson Garfinkel, David A. Holland, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Margo I. Seltzer. Issues in Automatic Provenance Collection, In Proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW "06), Chicago, IL, May 2006.
• Uri Braun, David A. Holland, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Margo Seltzer, Coping with cycles in provenance. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~syrah/pubs/cycles.pdf, February, 2006.
• Uri Braun and Avi Shinnar, A Security Model for Provenance. Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-04-06, January 2006 (PDF).
• Margo Seltzer, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, and Jonathan Ledlie. Provenance-Aware Storage Systems. Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-18-05, July 2005 (PDF).
• Jonathan Ledlie, Chaki Ng, David Holland, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Uri Braun, and Margo Seltzer, Provenance-Aware Sensor Data Storage, In Proceedings of NetDB 2005, Tokyo, Japan, April 2005 (PDF, HTML).

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