Ariel Feldman
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
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Department of Computer Science
Ryerson Hall, Room 161A
1100 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
About me [CV]
My research lies at the intersection of computer security and distributed systems. Topics that interest me include software and network security, data privacy, anonymity, and electronic voting. Recently, I've spent much of my time trying to find new ways to protect the security and privacy of users of “cloud hosted” services. I'm also particularly interested in the interaction between computer security, law, and public policy. I'm also a member of the Computer Science Department's CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing.
Before arriving at Chicago, I was a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science where I was affiliated with the Security Laboratory and I worked with Jonathan Smith and Andreas Haeberlen. Before that, I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University's Computer Science Department where I was affiliated with the Security Research Group and the Center for Information Technology Policy. My advisor was Ed Felten, and I worked with Mike Freedman.
Students
- Min Xu (Ph.D. student)
- Austin Byers (BS/MS student)
I'm looking for students! If you have strong coding and system-building skills and want to do research aimed at building, evaluating, and sometimes breaking secure systems, please consider applying to the Ph.D. program. Feel free to email me with questions about applying or to let me know that you've applied. Please note, however, that whether or not you're admitted isn't solely up to me.
Teaching
- CMSC 33251: Topics in Computer Security: Cloud & Distributed Systems Security (Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
- CMSC 23200/33250: Introduction to Computer Security (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Winter 2016)
- CMSC 16200: Honors Introduction to Programming, II (Winter 2015)
Publications [Google Scholar]
- Verifiable Differential Privacy
A. Narayan, A. J. Feldman, A. Papadimitriou, and A. Haeberlen
Proc. 2015 European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '15), April 2015. - Verifying Computations with State
B. Braun, A. J. Feldman, Z. Ren, S. Setty, A. J. Blumberg, and M. Walfish
Proc. 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '13), November 2013. - Privacy and Integrity are Possible in the Untrusted Cloud
A. J. Feldman, A. Blankstein, M. J. Freedman, and E. W. Felten
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, December 2012. - Social Networking with Frientegrity: Privacy and Integrity with an Untrusted Provider
A. J. Feldman, A. Blankstein, M. J. Freedman, and E. W. Felten
Proc. 21st USENIX Security Symposium (Sec '12), August 2012.
Awarded Best Student Paper - Privacy and Integrity in the Untrusted Cloud
A. J. Feldman
Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, June 2012. - SPORC: Group Collaboration using Untrusted Cloud Resources
A. J. Feldman, W. P. Zeller, M. J. Freedman, and E. W. Felten
Proc. 9th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '10), October 2010. - On Subliminal Channels in Encrypt-on-Cast Voting Systems
A. J. Feldman and J. Benaloh
Proc. 2009 USENIX/ACCURATE/IAVoSS Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT/WOTE '09), August 2009. - Can DREs Provide Long-Lasting Security?
The Case of Return-Oriented Programming and the AVC Advantage
S. Checkoway, A. J. Feldman, B. Kantor, J. A. Halderman, E. W. Felten, and H. Shacham
Proc. 2009 USENIX/ACCURATE/IAVoSS Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT/WOTE '09), August 2009. - Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
J. A. Halderman, S. D. Schoen, N. Heninger, W. Clarkson, W. Paul, J. A. Calandrino, A. J. Feldman, J. Appelbaum, and E. W. Felten
Proc. 17th USENIX Security Symposium (Sec '08), July 2008.
Awarded Best Student Paper - AVC Advantage: Hardware Functional Specifications
J. A. Halderman and A. J. Feldman
Princeton University Computer Science Technical Report TR-816-08, March 8, 2008. - Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
A. J. Feldman, J. A. Halderman, and E. W. Felten
Proc. 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT '07), August 2007. - Source Code Review of the Diebold Voting System
J. A. Calandrino, A. J. Feldman, J. A. Halderman, D. Wagner, H. Yu, and W. P. Zeller
California Secretary of State's 2007 "Top-to-Bottom Review" of California's voting systems, July 2007. - Internet Filters: A Public Policy Report, Second Edition
M. Heins, C. Cho, and A. Feldman
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Free Expression Policy Project, May 2006.