Computer Science Systems
Resume:
Alan E. Mislove
Huntington Avenue + (p)
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College of Computer and Information Science
Boston, Massachusetts ********@***.***.***
United States of America http://www.ccs.neu.edu/ amislove
research interests
Systems, security, and privacy issues of social network-based systems, Internet measurement
education
/ Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Thesis: Online Social Networks: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications to Distributed Informa-
tion Systems
Advisors: Peter Druschel and Krishna P. Gummadi
/ Master of Science in Computer Science
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Thesis: POST: A Decentralized Platform for Reliable Collaborative Applications
Advisor: Peter Druschel
/ Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Mathematics, awarded cum laude
Rice University, Houston, Texas
professional experience
/ Assistant Professor
College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
/ / Post-Doctoral Scholar
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrucken and Kaiserslautern, Germany
/ / Research Intern
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
/ / Research Assistant
Computer Science Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrucken and Kaiserslautern, Germany
advising
Ph.D. Students
/ Bimal Viswanath (MPI-SWS, co-advised with Krishna P. Gummadi)
/ Ancsa Hann k (Northeastern, co-advised with David Lazer)
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/ Yabing Liu (Northeastern)
/ Liang Zhang (Northeastern)
/ Arash Molavi Kakhki (Northeastern)
Ph.D. Committees
Alper Okcan (Northeastern)
Fall Tao Jin (Northeastern)
Spring Fangfei Zhou (Northeastern)
Spring Shahzad Rajput (Northeastern)
Spring Nicholas Blumm (Northeastern)
Bachelors
Tommy Nguyen (Su olk, now at RPI)
Spring
High School Interns
/ / Chloe Kilman-Silver (Winsor School, now at Brown University)
teaching
CS /IS, Social Information Systems (co-taught with Christo Wilson)
Fall
CS /CS, Fundamentals of Computer Networks (co-taught with Christo Wilson)
Fall
CS, Systems and Networks
Fall
CS, Systems and Networks
Spring
CS, Systems and Networks
Fall
CS, Systems and Networks
Spring
CS, Systems and Networks
Fall
CS /CS, Fundamentals of Computer Networks
Spring
CS, Computer Systems
Fall
CS, Special Topics in Networks
Spring
CS /CS, Fundamentals of Computer Networks
Fall
refereed conference publications
WWW Measuring Personalization of Web Search
A. Hannak, P. Sapiezynski, A. M. Kakhki, B. Krishnamurthy, D. Lazer, A. Mislove, and C. Wilson
WWW, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May
WWW Iolaus: Securing online content rating systems
A. M. Kakhki, C. Kliman-Silver, and A. Mislove
WWW, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May
EuroSys Maygh: Building a CDN from client web browsers
L. Zhang, F. Zhou, A. Mislove, and R. Sundaram
EuroSys, Prague, Czech Republic, Apr.
CoNEXT Defending against large-scale crawls in online social networks
M. Mondal, B. Viswanath, A. Clement, P. Druschel, K. P. Gummadi, A. Mislove, and A. Post
CoNEXT, Nice, France, Dec.
IEEE NCA WebCloud: Recruiting social network users to assist in content distribution
F. Zhou, L. Zhang, E. Franco, A. Mislove, R. Revis, and R. Sundaram
IEEE NCA, Cambridge, MA, Aug.
EuroSys Canal: Scaling social network-based Sybil tolerance schemes
B. Viswanath, M. Mondal, K. P. Gummadi, A. Mislove, and A. Post
EuroSys, Bern, Switzerland, Apr.
NSDI Bazaar: Strengthening user reputations in online marketplaces
A. Post, V. Shah, and A. Mislove
NSDI, Boston, MA, Mar.
SIGCOMM An Analysis of Social Network-based Sybil Defenses
B. Viswanath, A. Post, K. P. Gummadi, and A. Mislove
SIGCOMM, Delhi, India, Aug.
WSDM You are who you know: Inferring user pro les in Online Social Networks
A. Mislove, B. Viswanath, K. P. Gummadi, and P. Druschel
WSDM, New York, NY, Feb.
WWW A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network
M. Cha, A. Mislove, and K. P. Gummadi
WWW, Madrid, Spain, Apr.
NSDI Ostra: Leverging trust to thwart unwanted communication
A. Mislove, A. Post, K. P. Gummadi, and P. Druschel
NSDI, San Francisco, CA, Apr.
IMC Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
A. Mislove, M. Marcon, K. P. Gummadi, P. Druschel, and B. Bhattacharjee
IMC, San Diego, CA, Oct.
EuroSys Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
A. Mislove, A. Post, A. Haeberlen, and P. Druschel
EuroSys, Leuven, Belgium, Apr.
NSDI Glacier: Highly durable, decentralized storage despite massive correlated failures
A. Haeberlen, A. Mislove, and P. Druschel
NSDI, Boston, MA, May
refereed workshop and other short publications
Tweetin in the Rain: Exploring societal-scale e ects of weather on mood
ICWSM
A. Hannak, E. Anderson, L. F. Barrett, S. Lehmann, A. Mislove, and M. Riedewald
ICWSM, Dublin, Ireland, June
WWW Simplifying Friendlist Management (Demo Paper)
Y. Liu, M. Mondal, B. Viswanath, M. Mondal, K. P. Gummadi, and A. Mislove
WWW, Lyon, France, Apr.
IMC Analyzing Facebook privacy settings: User expectations vs. reality
Y. Liu, K. P. Gummadi, B. Krishnamurthy, and A. Mislove
IMC, Berlin, Germany, Nov.
ICWSM Understanding the demographics of Twitter users
A. Mislove, S. Lehmann, Y.-Y. Ahn, J.-P. Onnela, and J. N. Rosenquist
ICWSM, Barcelona, Spain, July
WOSN On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook
B. Viswanath, A. Mislove, M. Cha, and K. P. Gummadi
WOSN, Barcelona, Spain, Aug.
IMC Detecting BitTorrent Blocking
M. Dischinger, A. Mislove, A. Haeberlen, and K. P. Gummadi
IMC, Vouliagmeni, Greece, Oct.
WOSN Growth of the Flickr Social Network
A. Mislove, H. S. Koppula, K. P. Gummadi, P. Druschel, and B. Bhattacharjee
WOSN, Seattle, WA, Aug.
WOSN Characterizing Social Cascades in Flickr
M. Cha, A. Mislove, B. Adams, and K. P. Gummadi
WOSN, Seattle, WA, Aug.
HotNets Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search
A. Mislove, K. P. Gummadi, and P. Druschel
HotNets, Irvine, CA, Nov.
IPTPS Fallacies in evaluating decentralized systems
A. Haeberlen, A. Mislove, A. Post, and P. Druschel
IPTPS, Santa Barbara, CA, Feb.
IPTPS Sharing micronews with peer-to-peer event noti cation
D. Sandler, A. Mislove, A. Post, and P. Druschel
IPTPS, Ithaca, NY, Feb.
AP : Cooperative, decentralized anonymous communication
SIGOPS-EW
A. Mislove, G. Oberoi, A. Post, P. Druschel, and D. S. Wallach
SIGOPS-EW, Leuven, Belgium, Sept.
IPTPS Providing Administrative Control and Autonomy in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
A. Mislove and P. Druschel
IPTPS, La Jolla, CA, Feb.
HotOS POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System
A. Mislove, A. Post, C. Reis, P. Willmann, P. Druschel, D. S. Wallach, X. Bonnaire, P. Sens, J.-M.
Busca, and L. Arantes-Bezerra
HotOS, Lihue, HI, May
non-refereed publications
An empirical validation of growth models for complex networks
A. Mislove, H. S. Koppula, K. P. Gummadi, P. Druschel, and B. Bhattacharjee
Dynamics of Time Varying Networks, Niloy Ganguly, Animesh Mukherjee, Bivas Mitr and, Fer-
nando Peruani, and Monojit Choudhury, eds., Springer-Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg, Germany,
Exploring the design space of social network-based Sybil defense
B. Viswanath, M. Mondal, A. Clement, P. Druschel, K. P. Gummadi, A. Mislove, and A. Post
COMSNETS, Bangalore, India, Jan.
Defending against large-scale crawls in online social networks
M. Mondal, B. Viswanath, A. Clement, P. Druschel, K. P. Gummadi, A. Mislove, and A. Post
MPI-SWS, Technical Report -, Nov.
Addressing the Privacy Management Crisis in Online Social Networks
K. P. Gummadi, B. Krishnamurthy, and A. Mislove
IAB Workshop on Internet Privacy, Boston, MA, Dec.
Is Twitter a national mood ring? A. Mislove
CNN.com, Aug.
http://www.cnn.com/ /OPINION/ / /mislove.twitter.research.
Online Social Networks: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications to Distributed Informa-
tion Systems
A. Mislove
Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University, Department of Computer Science, May
ePOST
A. Mislove, A. Haeberlen, A. Post, and P. Druschel
Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, LNCS, chapter, Ralf Steinmetz and Klaus Wehrle,
eds., Springer-Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg, Germany, Aug.
Consistent Key Mapping in Structured Overlays
A. Haeberlen, J. Hoye, A. Mislove, and P. Druschel
Rice University, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report TR -, Aug.
POST: A Decentralized Platform for Reliable Collaborative Applications
A. Mislove
Master s Thesis, Rice University, Department of Computer Science, Dec.
invited talks
Leveraging social networks in systems design
/ / Worcester Polytechnic Institute
/ / University of Maryland, College Park
/ / University of Massachusetts Boston
/ / nuACM Lecture, Northeastern University
/ / McGill University
/ / Boston University
Writing a successful CISE CAREER proposal
/ / NSF CAREER Writing Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona
Privacy in online social media
/ / Copenhagen Center for Computational Social Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
Systems challenges in online social media
/ / Top-IX Annual Conference, Turin, Italy
Twittermood: Measuring the mood of the U.S. throughout the day
/ / R Twitter Group Meeting, Microsoft Research New England
Leveraging online social networks for health research
/ / Online Social Networks Conference, Columbia University
Leveraging online social networks for social science
/ / IBM Social Network Analysis Community
High Throughput Humanities Workshop, European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS )
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Social media and networks
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci )
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Leveraging social networks in information systems
/ / Technische Universit t Berlin
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/ / University of Massachusetts Lowell
/ / University of Colorado at Boulder
/ / University of Pennsylvania
/ / AT&T Labs Research
/ / Northeastern University
/ / University of Oregon
/ / University of Rochester
Towards Sybil-Tolerant Systems
Army Research O ce Trustworthy Social Computing Workshop
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Automatically detecting communities in online social networks
/ / Facebook, Inc.
/ / New York University
/ / University of Maryland, College Park
Leveraging communities in online social networks
/ / International Max Planck Research School Ringvorlesung
Structure and growth of online social networks
/ / Microsoft Research Cambridge Social Networks Workshop
invited workshops and panels
Proposal Review Panel, NSF
Proposal Review Panel, NSF
Proposal Review Panel, NSF
Proposal Review Panel, NSF
Proposal Review Panel, NSF
/ / NSF US-Japan Networking Research Collaboration Workshop, Tokyo, Japan
/ / Synergic Investigations in Network Science, Bertinoro, Italy
/ / Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud, NSF
Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Social and Technological Networks, Dagstuhl
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/ / New England Summit on Cyber Security, Boston University
/ / Online Social Networks and Health Research, Columbia University
/ / Social Networking Roundtable, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Proposal Review Panel, NSF
/ / Internet Privacy Workshop, IAB
/ / Cybervetting Focus Group, IACP
Apps in, IEEE SECON
/ /
/ / Idea Summit: Mapping Edges in a World of Global Connectivity, DARPA
Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, Dagstuhl
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posters
Mitigating Sybil attacks on content rating systems, SOSP
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Limiting large-scale crawls of social networking sites, SIGCOMM (research competition nalist)
/ /
Understanding the demographics of Twitter users, ICWSM
/ /
WebCloud: Enabling more direct content exchange between Web clients, NSDI
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Anonymity in the Personalized Web, NSDI
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honors and awards
NSF CAREER Award
Finalist, EPFL Symposium Lastis Minimax Mapping Contest
Institutional Nominee, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, Northeastern University
Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Department of Computer Science, Rice University
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Vice President s Appreciation Award, Rice University
W. L. Moody Junior Scholarship in Engineering
Louis J. Walsh Scholarship in Engineering
National Merit Scholarship
service
Advisory Board Member
Digital Humanities/Computational Social Sciences Centers, Northeastern University
Organizing Committee Member
International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci)
Program Committee Co-Chair
Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS)
Program Committee Member
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Social Networks Track, International Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet)
International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci), Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR)
Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN)
Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks for Practitioners (SIMPLEX)
Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon), Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Workshop on Social Network Systems (SNS)
Poster Committee Chair
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM)
Publicity Chair
Haifa Experimental Systems Conference (SYSTOR)
Workshop Committee Member
International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
Poster Committee Member
Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM)
funding
/ / Mitigating Sybil attacks on content rating systems. Primary Investigator, Google Research Award.
$ k.
National Science Foundation
/ / Privacy Preserving Social Systems (Supplement). Primary Investigator, NetSE Cross-Cutting Pro-
grams IIS- . $ k.
/ / Privacy Preserving Social Systems (REU). Primary Investigator, NetSE Cross-Cutting Programs
IIS- . $ k.
/ / CAREER: Systems for the emerging patterns of content exchange. Primary Investigator, Computer
Systems Research CNS- . $ k.
/ / Privacy Preserving Social Systems. Co-Primary Investigator, NetSE Cross-Cutting Programs IIS-
. Joint with Bobby Bhattacharjee, Neil Spring, and Jonathan Katz. $ . m (total), $ k
(Northeastern).
Army Research O ce
/ / Will the revolution be tweeted? Weak ties, social media, and ash movements. Co-Primary Investi-
gator, W NF- - - . Joint with David Lazer. $ k.
Amazon.com
/ / Measuring and Predicting Sentiment in Online Social Networks. Primary Investigator, Amazon
Web Services in Education Research Grant. $ . k.
/ / Measuring Information Flow in Real-Time. Primary Investigator, Amazon Web Services in Educa-
tion Research Grant. $ . k.
/ / Tracing the Spread of Information in Social Networks. Primary Investigator, Amazon Web Services
in Education Research Grant. $ k.
selected press coverage
/ / Decoding Our Chatter. The Wall Street Journal.
/ / Social Network Secrets. The Daily Beast.
/ / The Leaky Nature of Online Privacy. Slate.
/ / Tweets move faster than earthquakes. Washington Post Business Blog.
/ / Privacy: Facebook s Achilles heel. cnet News.
/ / Aufschlussreiches Gezwitscher. Scinexx.
/ / Soziale Medien: Informations-Epidemien im Internet. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Forschung.
Forecast your new year: Scientists can predict important days in . New York Post.
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/ The Echo of Digital Tweets. Max Planck Research.
/ / Tweeting the Elections. news@Northeastern.
/ / There s Wisdom in Those Tweets: Social Science Data Emerges from the Twitterverse. Scienti c Am.
/ / Tweets Map the Country s Mood. CBS Evening News.
/ / Tracking the National Mood Through Twitter. New York Times.
/ / Twitter mood maps reveal emotional states of America. New Scientist.
/ / Virtual Privacy. news@Northeastern.
/ / On Facebook, You Are Who You Know. Miller-McCune.
/ / The company you keep. Northeastern University Voice.
/ / Web searches bene t from some human help. New Scientist.
Study Shows Comcast and Cox Slow P P Tra c. Associated Press.
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/ / How to spot false friends on FaceBook. New Scientist.
/ / Suchen im Netz der Nutzer. MIT Technology Review Germany.
/ / Web hits from my PeerSpective. New Scientist.
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