Redesigning the Internet for Security and Privacy
Date: Fri, November 18, 2022
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Holmes Hall 244
Speaker: Dr. Paul Schmitt, Assistant Professor
Sponsored by the College of Engineering's Professors & Pizza series; Please RSVP by Noon on November 17th: https://forms.gle/J1PSX9zTDoSrZFkh9
Everything we do online leaves a trace. Whether it's a log stored by a web service, or a record of a videoconference call with a collaborator. The value of communications metadata-e.g., the who, when, where, how of communications is enormous, and the shift towards remote-first work has resulted in an even more drastic reliance on third parties for communications and collaboration. Nearly everyone is handing over communications metadata to dozens of cloud services (Zoom, Slack Discord, etc.). The next generation of networked systems must be created with security and privacy as first-order goals. This talk will discuss core design principles for networked system architectures that are metadata secure and private by default, as well as modern systems that adhere to these principles.
Bio: 
- Research Scholar, Princeton University, 2019-2021
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University, 2017-2019
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2017
- M.S. Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas, 2011
- B.A. Computer Science, University of St. Thomas, 2009