Eleanor Birrell

462 Gates Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: first_name@cs.cornell.edu

I am a PhD candidate and lecturer in computer science at Cornell University. My advisor is Fred Schneider. Other professors on my committee include Rafael Pass, Andrew Myers, and Mitchel Lasser. Prior to joining the Cornell department, I obtained my Bachelor of Arts degree in computer science and mathematics from Harvard University.

My primary research interests are in security and data privacy. My current work develops a new approach to data security in the modern world based on use-based authorization. The focus is on understanding user privacy preferences, designing a reactive policy language for use-based authoriztion, enforcing such authorization policies in decentralized systems using Intel SGX, and extending our regime to support practical use-based privacy.

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E. Birrell, A.Gjerdrum, H. Johansen, D. Johansen, R. van Renesse, and F. B. Schneider. SGX Enforcement of Use-based Authorization. In preparation.
E. Birrell and F. B. Schneider. A Reactive Approach for Use-based Privacy. In submission.
Tech Report
H. Johansen, E. Birrell, R. van Renesse, F. Schneider, M. Stenhaug, and D. Johansen. Enforcing Privacy Policies with Meta-Code. In Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys), 2015.
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E. Birrell and F. Schneider. Fine-Grained User Privacy from Avenance Tags.
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E. Birrell and F. Schneider. Federated Identity Management Systems: A Privacy-based Characterization. In IEEE Security & Privacy, Sept/Oct 2013.
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E. Birrell, K.-M. Chung, R. Pass, and S. Telang. Randomness-Dependent Message Security. In Tenth Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), 2013.
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E. Birrell and R. Pass. Approximately Strategy-Proof Voting. In International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011.
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E. Birrell and S. Vadhan. Composition of Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Efficient Provers. In Seventh Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), 2010.
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CS 5430: System Security (Spring 2018)
CS 2110: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Spring 2018, Fall 2017)
CS 5431: System Security Practicum (Spring 2017)
I have previously worked as a Teaching Assistant for CS 5430: System Security (Spring 2015, Spring 2013) and for CS 6830: Cryptography (Fall 2011). Prior to joining the Cornell department, I was a Teaching Fellow for various math and computer science courses at Harvard including Math 1a, Math 1b, Math 21a, Math 21b, CS 105, CS 121, and CS 124.