Stefan Saroiu Senior Principal Researcher Mobility and Networking Research Microsoft Research Redmond

Introduction

I am a researcher in the Mobility and Networking Research Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. My current research interests focus on systems security although I have worked on many aspects of systems research over the years. Together with my colleagues, I shipped a cloud service used by 20+ million users, built the reference implementation of a software TPM (aka the fTPM), and built one of the first face recognition-based payment systems known as Zero-Effort Payments (ZEP). More recently, I have been working on understanding the threat of Rowhammer attacks to a cloud provider (stay tuned). For an overview of my work on building systems that offer strong security guarantees whether in the cloud or on client devices, see (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Prior to coming to Microsoft, I was a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto. I received my Ph.D. from the Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Washington.

Recent Publications

• Lily Tsai, Roberta de Viti, Matthew Lentz, Stefan Saroiu, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee
  enClosure: Group Communication via Encounter Closures
  MobiSys. June 2019.

• Himanshu Raj, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Ronald Aigner, Jeremiah Cox, Paul England, Chris Fenner, Kinshuman Kinshumann, Jork Loeser, Dennis Mattoon, Magnus Nystrom, David Robinson, Rob Spiger, Stefan Thom, David Wooten
  fTPM: A Software-only Implementation of a TPM Chip
  USENIX Security, August 2016.
  To view the fTPM presentation, click here. For an earlier tech report click here.

Complete list of publications.

Recent Professional Activities

• HotMobile 2020: Program Committee member.
• MobiSys 2019: Program Committee member.
• MobiSys 2018: Program Committee co-chair.

Contact Information

Stefan Saroiu
Microsoft Research
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