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Date:  Tue, March 08, 2022
Time:  10:30am - 11:30am
Location:  Holmes 389; online available, see registration info
Speaker:  Dr. Paul Schmitt, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Online available, register for connection info at https://forms.gle/yeGtuLSFYqgbEJg86

Abstract

Beyond connectivity, modern users expect that the networks and protocols they use ensure privacy. However, as network traffic is increasingly encrypted, service providers require new techniques to gain insight into the traffic they serve. In this talk I discuss networked systems designed to enhance user privacy, as well as systems and techniques for privacy-preserving network traffic analysis. I first detail my systems research targeted at enhancing privacy in the global DNS ecosystem and in cellular networks. I then discuss systems I have designed for privacy-preserving network analysis that can be leveraged by ISPs to gain insight into network usage and performance without breaking encryption.

Bio

Paul Schmitt is a research computer scientist in the Information Sciences Institute at USC. His research focuses on networked systems, privacy, protocol design, network traffic inference and analysis, and scalable Internet measurement. His work takes a dirty-slate approach to networked systems research, allowing for compatibility and immediate deployability in current environments. He previously received his PhD from UC Santa Barbara in 2017 and was an associate research scholar in the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.