talk: Building Incorruptible Systems in Cloud Environments

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Building “Incorruptible” Systems in Cloud Environments

Dr. Haibin Zhang
University of Connecticut

12:00pm Friday, 17 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC

In this talk, I will discuss how to design and implement efficient distributed systems in untrusted cloud environments that simultaneously achieve the three most important security goals — integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

Haibin Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at University of Connecticut advised by Prof. Marten van Dijk. He is working on the MACS project, a cross-institutional collaboration among BU, MIT, Northeastern, and UConn. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, advised by Prof. Michael Reiter, working on Project Silver. He received his Ph.D. from University of California at Davis (with Prof. Matthew Franklin), his M.S. from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his B.S. from Shandong University. He is interested in cloud computing, cryptography, security, privacy, and distributed systems. He received the best paper candidate award at 33rd IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, proved the security of a NIST standard on ciphertext stealing, and was one of the main inventors of Norton Zone, Symantec’s scalable cloud storage.