Sujata Garera
Software Engineer
Google Inc., Mountain View
About
Me
I am a Software Engineer at Google Inc., Mountain View. Prior to joining Google , I was a Lecturer for online courses at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins. I pursued a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University under the guidance of Dr. Aviel D. Rubin and defended my thesis in August 2008. Prior to joining JHU, I did my Masters at the Information Networking Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests include Network, Systems and Software Security.
Courses
Taught
Spring
2010: 650.650 Special Topics
in Security and Privacy of Medical Information
Fall
2008: 650.470 Basics of Applied Cryptography and
Network Security
Publications
Designing for Audit: A Voting Machine with a Tiny
TCB
Ryan W. Gardner, Sujata Garera, Aviel D. Rubin
To appear as a short paper in the proceedings of Financial Cryptography and Data Security, January 2010
Detecting Code
Alteration by Creating a Temporary Memory Bottleneck
Ryan W. Gardner, Sujata Garera, Aviel D. Rubin
In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, December 2009
Securing
Medical Records on Smart Phones
Ryan W. Gardner, Sujata Garera, Matthew W. Pagano, Matthew Green, Aviel D. Rubin
In the Proceedings of the Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-Care Systems workshop, November 2009
Challenges in
Teaching a Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
Sujata Garera and Jorge Vasconcelos
In the ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, June 2009 issue
Coercion Resistant End-to-end Voting
Ryan Gardner,
Sujata Garera and Aviel D. Rubin
In the 13th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, February 2009
Protecting Patient Records from Unwarranted Access
Ryan Gardner, Sujata Garera, Anand Rajan, Carols
Rozas, Aviel D. Rubin, Manoj Sastry
In the Future of Trust in Computing Workshop, July
2008
A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing
Attacks
Sujata Garera, Niels Provos, Monica Chew and Aviel D. Rubin
In the 5th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode, Alexandria, Virginia, October 2007
An
Independent Audit Framework for Software Dependent Voting Systems
Sujata Garera and Aviel D. Rubin
In the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Alexandria, Virginia, October 2007
On the Difficulty of Validating Voting Machine Software
with Software
Ryan Gardner, Sujata Garera and Aviel D. Rubin
In the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop, Boston, MA, August 2007
Efficient
Memory Bound Puzzles using Pattern Databases
Sujata Garera, Fabian Monrose and Aviel D. Rubin
In the 4th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, Singapore, June 2006
Dynamically
Establishing Trust
Ryan Gardner, Sujata Garera and Aviel D. Rubin
In the USENIX Security Poster Session, Boston, MA, August 2007
Technical
Reports
Ryan Gardner, Sujata Garera and Aviel D. Rubin
SPAR Technical Report, RG-SG-AD:245631
A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing
Attacks
Sujata Doshi, Niels Provos, Monica Chew and Aviel D. Rubin
SPAR Technical Report, SD-NP-MC-AD:251206
Sujata Doshi, Thesis Advisor: Chenxi Wang
MSIN Thesis, Information Networking Institute, TR 2004-21
Work
Experience
Lecturer,
Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, October 2009 to May 2010
As a Lecturer at Hopkins, I worked on developing a course on Medical Information Security and Privacy. This course was taught online through Adobe Connect to graduate students in JHUISI.
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, October 2008 to October
2009
As a Postdoc at Hopkins, I worked along with Dr. Aviel D. Rubin on exciting projects in the area of Electronic Voting and Medical Security. I also taught Basics of Applied Cryptography and Network Security in Fall 2008 to students in the MSSI program
Engineering
Intern, Google Inc, Mountain View, Summer 2006
As an Intern at Google I had the opportunity to work on some interesting data analysis of Phishing attacks. I worked with Niels Provos and Monica Chew and we published a paper on detection and measurements of Phishing attacks. I also had an opportunity to contribute to the production cycle.
Research
Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Summer 2005 to October 2008
I have been a research assistant for Dr. Avi Rubin from Summer 2005 to October 2008. I have worked with him on several exciting projects and published several papers.
Teaching
Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2004 to Spring 2007
I have worked as a TA for the Computer Science Department in Fall 2004 for Automata and Computation Theory, in Spring 2005 for Introduction to Computer Science, in Spring 2006 and Spring 2007 for Security and Privacy in Computing. As a TA my responsibilities involved grading assignments and dealing with queries from students during office hours or otherwise.
Professional
Activities
External
Reviewer, IEEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2011
Program Committee Member, Fifth International
Conference On Information Systems Security (ICISS
2009)
External Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security, 2009
External Reviewer, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine,
2007
External Reviewer, Workshop on Recurring Malecode,
2006
Fun
Stuff
I am an avid reader and love to get lost either in the classics by Jane Austen, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, or in the wizarding world created by J.K.Rowling, or in a mystery by Agatha Christie. I love to dance and have enjoyed pursuing Indian Classical Dance for several years. At JHU, I was a part of the JHUMOOR group and would take part in shows quite often. I also enjoy Salsa and Cha-Cha with my husband Nikesh and love spending time with my daughter Sarika.