Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Department of Computer Science, D329 LSRC abor7x@r.postjobfree.com

Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 http://www.cs.duke.edu/ ashwin

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Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of data privacy, big-data management, and

statistical methods for infor-

mation integration.

Professional History

Assistant Professor,Duke University, Durham, NC 2012 - current

Senior Research Scientist,Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA, USA 2011 - 2012

Visiting Assistant Research Scientist,University of Maryland - College Park2011 - 2012

Research Scientist,Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA, USA 2008 - 2011

Educational History

Ph.D., Computer Science,Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA 2008

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Johannes Gehrke

B.Tech., Computer Science,Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India 2002

Thesis Advisor: Prof. C. Pandu Rangan

Honors and Awards

H-1. 2008 ACM-SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award Honorable Mentionfor Ph.D. thesis titled

\Defining and Enforcing Privacy in Data Sharing", June 2009.

H-2. The poster,Beyond k-Anonymity: New Scheme for Privacy Preserving Data Publishing,

was judged the

best visionary poster, in Database/Information Retrieval Day, NY April 2005.

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H-3. Graduated with the 2 highest CGPA amongst 400 students in the class of 2002, IIT-

Madras.

H-4. Awarded the Biswajit Sain Endowment Prize for securing the highest CGPA in 1999-

2000, IIT-Madras.

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Book Chapters:

B-1. Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Johannes Gehrke, \Randomization Methods to Ensure Data

Privacy", Ency-

clopedia of Database Systems, Springer, 2009.

Conference.

C-1. Daniel Kifer, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, \A rigorous and customizable framework for

privacy", In Proc.

PODS2012.

C-2. Nilesh Dalvi,Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Bo Pang, \An Analysis of Structured Data on the

Web", InProc.

VLDB2012.

C-3. Anish Das Sarma, Ankur Jain, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Philip Bohannon, \An Automatic

Blocking

Mechanism for Large-Scale De-duplication Tasks", InProc. CIKM2012.

C-4. Aditya Pal, Vibhor Rastogi, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Philip Bohannon, \Information

integration over

time in unreliable and uncertain environments", InProc. WWW2012.

C-5. Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Aleksandra Korolova, Atish Das Sarma, \Personalized Social

Recommendations

{ Accurate or Private?", InProc. VLDB2011.

C-6. Daniel Kifer,Ashwin Machanavajjhala, \No Free Lunch in Data Privacy", InProc.

SIGMOD2011.

C-7. Adam Silberstein,Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Raghu Ramakrishnan, \Feed Following: The

Big Data Chal-

lenge in Social Applications", InProc. DBSocial2011(invited paper).

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C-8. Nilesh Dalvi, Ravi Kumar, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Vibhor Rastogi, \Sampling hidden

objects using

nearest-neighbor oracles.", InProc. KDD2011.

C-9. Lorenzo Blanco, Nilesh Dalvi,Ashwin Machanavajjhala, \Highly E cient Algorithms For

Structural Clus-

tering of Large Websites", InProc. WWW2011.

C-10. Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Arun Iyer, Philip Bohannon, Srujana Merugu, \Collective

Bayesian Extraction

from Heterogeneous Web Lists", InProc. WSDM2011.

C-11. Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Johannes Gehrke, Michaela Goetz, \Data Publishing against

Realistic Adver-

saries", InProc. VLDB2009.

C-12. Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Erik Vee, Minos Garofalakis, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram,

\Scalable Ranked

Publish/Subscribe", InProc. VLDB2008.

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Professional Services

Program Committee Member. SIGMOD (2013, 2012, 2009), PVLDB (2013, 2012, 2010), ICDE

(2012),

PADM (2011), ICDM (2010, 2008), DBSec (2010), PPDA (2009), PinKDD (2008)

Reviewer. NSF Grant (2009), VLDBJ (2010,2009,2008), JACM (2010), TODS (2010-2006), TKDE

(2011-

2007), and JCSS (2006).

External Reviewer. VLDB (2007-2004), STOC (2007), SIGMOD (2006, 2005), PODS (2005), KDD

(2006,

2004), and EDBT (2006).

Professional A liations. Member of ACM and SIGMOD.

Teaching Experience & Tutorials

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Mentoring Experience

M-1. Bolin Ding, University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne, Thesis Committee Member, 2011

M-2. Aditya Pal, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Summer Internship Mentor, 2011

M-3. Lorenzo Blanco, Universit a degli Studi Roma, Summer Internship Mentor, 2010

M-4. Aleksandra Korolova, Stanford University, Summer Internship Mentor, 2009

M-5. Kedar Bellare, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Summer Internship Mentor, 2009

M-6. Ioannis Antonellis, Stanford University, Summer Internship Mentor, 2009

Systems Building Experience

S-1. Currently leading the design and implementation of an unsupervised Web-scale

information extraction

system on Hadoop atYahoo! (2011)

S-2. Designed and developed a browser-based social collaboration tool callYahoo!

LinkUpfor participants in

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Hands Across California, a fundraising event for California's community colleges (2011)

S-3. Helped implement a Mobile Phone Assisted Cardiovascular Teaching (mPACT) tool that

was used by

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health workers in Elmina, Ghana (as a volunteer for the International Cardiovascular

Health Alliance )

(2011).

S-4. Led the design and implementation of a machine learnt system for automatically

identifying home pages

of business entities atYahoo! (2010)

S-5. Developed a novel synthetic data generation privacy algorithm that is currently

being used in a Census

3

Bureau product, OnTheMap (2008).

S-6. Helped design and implement a scalable peer-to-peer system, P-Ring, that was

deployed on PlanetLab

and was commercialized by Architecture Technology Corporation (2004)

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http://www.handsacrosscalifornia.org/

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http://www.ichaonline.org

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http://lehdmap.did.census.gov/

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