Assistant Computer Science

Ann Kilzer

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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ akilzer/

Education

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas December 2011

M.S. in Computer Science

Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington May 2008

B.S. in Computer Science. Magna Cum Laude

B.A. in Math, Art, Minor in German

Skills

Pro cient in Python, C/C++. Experienced in Java, Lisp, HTML, LTEX.

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Familiar with Linux/UNIX, OS X, Windows.

Speak conversational German and currently learning Japanese.

Professional Experience

The University of Texas at Austin September 2009 August 2011

Research Assistant

2 Studied privacy and de-anonymization of collaborative ltering systems.

2 Work featured in the Economist Blog.

Google, Mountain View, California Summer 2009

Software Engineering Intern

2 Developed visualizations for client and server mappings.

2 Wrote MapReduce code to gather statistics.

2 Project became a weekly monitoring tool used by team.

Google, Mountain View, California Summer 2008

Platforms Software Engineering Intern

2 Wrote a program to download rmware to a device through an MMIO interface and

calculate checksums.

2 Developed open source tool for displaying Opro le output as a directory tree.

Scalable and Embedded Systems Lab at Gonzaga University 2007 2008

Research Assistant

2 Compared scalability of parallel programs for Bayesian phylogenetic inference.

Scalable Systems Lab at The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Summer 2007

Research Assistant

2 Worked on a lesystem interface for sensor networks.

2 Developed software in C to communicate with and store data on sensors using MANTIS

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Gonzaga University Center for Evolutionary Algorithms 2005 2008

Research Assistant

2 Applied genetic algorithms to NP-hard graph theory problems.

Department of Mathematics at California State University, San Bernardino

NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Summer 2006

2 Investigated graph theory and bandwidth-critical graphs.

Teaching Experience

The University of Texas at Austin Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2011

Teaching Assistant for Operating Systems, Intro to Programming, Intro to Computing

2 Worked with students in o ce hours.

2 Taught discussion sections.

Publications & Presentations

Conference Papers

J. Calandrino, A. Kilzer, A. Narayanan, E. Felten, V. Shmatikov. You Might Also Like: Privacy

Risks of Collaborative Filtering. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland, CA:

May 2011

I. Roy, S. Setty, A. Kilzer, V. Shmatikov, E. Witchel. Airavat: Security and Privacy for MapReduce.

Proc. 7th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. San Jose, CA: USENIX,

April 2010.

J. Horey, J. Tournier, P. Widener, A. Maccabe, A. Kilzer. A Filesystem Interface for Sensor

Networks. In Proc. Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets), Charlottesville,

Virginia: ACM, June 2008.

S. Ganzerli, P. De Palma, S. Overbay, A. Kilzer, R. Datteri, S. Fitzgerald. Optimizing Resources

in Undergraduate Research. In 2008 Structures Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:

April 2008.

Projects

A. Kilzer. Opro le Kernel Tree Builder. An open-source script for viewing Opro le output

as a directory tree. http://code.google.com/p/opro le-kernel-tree-builder.

Presentations

A. Kilzer, (I. Roy, S. Setty, V. Shmatikov, E. Witchel.) Applying Di erential Privacy to Search

Queries. (poster) SOSP Diversity 2009. Big Sky, Montana. October 10, 2009.

K. Dahmen, and A. Kilzer. Genetic Algorithms for Optimized Book Embedding. Spokane

Intercollegiate Research Conference, Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington: April 7, 2006.

Hobbies

Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu, Printmaking, Volunteer for Austin Pets Alive!

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