Alan Mislove

\ Alan Mislove

Alan Mislove

Address: College of Computer and Information Science 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 USA

Office: 250 West Village H

Phone: +1 617 373 7069

Email: amislove (at) ccs (dot) neu (dot) edu

I am currently an Assistant Professor the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. I was recently a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and I received my Ph.D. from at the Computer Science Department at Rice University in the spring of 2009. I was advised by Peter Druschel and Krishna Gummadi. In the summer of 2005, I was an intern at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, working with Antony Rowstron and Miguel Castro. In the fall of 2005, I moved with Peter Druschel to found the new Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, in Saarbrücken, Germany.

My research interests currently lie in the area of social networks, distributed systems, and network measurement tools.

Projects

Online Social Networks
Studying the structure, growth, and applications of online social networks.
[Paper] [Homepage]

PeerSpective
Exploiting the shared interest in social networks to enhance Web search.
[Paper] [Homepage]
Ostra
Leveraging the trust in social networks to thwart unwanted communication.
[Paper]

ISP Transparency
Providing end-users with tools to detect ISP traffic shaping and misbehavior.
[Homepage]
ePOST
A completely decentralized email system, providing a challenging proving ground for p2p systems.
[Paper] [Homepage]

FreePastry
An open-source implementation of the Pastry protocol.
[Homepage]

Teaching

CS4700/CS5700 Fundamentals of Computer Networks, Fall 2009
CS7780 Topics in Networks, Spring 2010

Refereed Publications

You are who you know: Inferring user profiles in Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Bimal Viswanath, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference of Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'10), New York, NY, February 2010. To appear.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
On the Evolution of User Interaction in Facebook
Bimal Viswanath, Alan Mislove, Meeyoung Cha, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'09), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009. To appear.
Note: The original version contained a few inaccurate statistics on the size of the data set, this has been corrected in the updated paper below.
[PDF] [Original PDF (with errata)] [Errata Note] [BibTeX] [Measurement Data]
A Measurement-driven Analysis of Information Propagation in the Flickr Social Network
Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the 18th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW'09), Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Measurement Data]
Detecting BitTorrent Blocking
Marcel Dischinger, Alan Mislove, Andreas Haeberlen, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the 6th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'08), Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Growth of the Flickr Social Network
Alan Mislove, Hema Swetha Koppula, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Measurement Data]
Characterizing Social Cascades in Flickr
Meeyoung Cha, Alan Mislove, Ben Adams, and Krishna P. Gummadi
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Ostra: Leveraging trust to thwart unwanted communication
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)]
Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, and Bobby Bhattacharjee
In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'07), San Diego, CA, October 2007.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Measurement Data]
Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search
Alan Mislove, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets'06), Irvine, CA, November 2006.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]
Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Andreas Haeberlen, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Professional Society for Systems (EuroSys'06), Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]
Fallacies in evaluating decentralized systems
Andreas Haeberlen, Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'06), Santa Barbara, CA, February, 2006.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Glacier: Highly durable, decentralized storage despite massive correlated failures
Andreas Haeberlen, Alan Mislove, and Peter Druschel.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'05), Boston, MA, May 2005.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Software]
Sharing micronews with peer-to-peer event notification
Dan Sandler, Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'05), Ithaca, NY, Feburary 2005.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Software]
AP3: Cooperative, decentralized anonymous communication
Alan Mislove, Gaurav Oberoi, Ansley Post, Peter Druschel, and Dan S. Wallach
In Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop (SIGOPS-EW'04), Leuven, Belgium, September 2004.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Providing Administrative Control and Autonomy in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
Alan Mislove and Peter Druschel
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04), San Diego, CA, Feburary 2004.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]
POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System
Alan Mislove, Ansley Post, Charles Reis, Paul Willmann, Peter Druschel, Dan S. Wallach, Xavier Bonnaire, Pierre Sens, Jean-Michel Busca, and Luicana Arantes-Bezerra
In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'03), Lihue, HI, May 2003.
[PDF] [BibTeX] [Slides (PDF)] [Software]

Theses, Book Chapters, and other Non-Refereed Publications

Online Social Networks: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications to Distributed Information Systems
Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, Rice University, May 2009. Advised by Peter Druschel and Krishna P. Gummadi.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
Consistent Key Mapping in Structured Overlays
Andreas Haeberlen, Jeff Hoye, Alan Mislove, and Peter Druschel
Technical Report TR05-456, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, August 2005.
[PDF] [BibTeX]
ePOST
Alan Mislove, Andreas Haeberlen, Ansley Post, and Peter Druschel
Chapter in Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications, LNCS 3485, Spring-Verlag Publishers, Heidelberg. Ralf Steinmetz and Klaus Wehrle, Eds. August 2005.
[Book] [Homepage] [Software]
POST: A Decentralized Platform for Reliable Collaborative Applications
Master of Science Thesis, Rice University, December 2004. Advised by Peter Druschel.
[PDF] [BibTeX]

Talk Slides

Communities as a first-class abstraction for information sharing (work-in-progress)
At the 8th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'08), San Diego, CA, December 2008.
[Slides (PDF)]
Growth of the Flickr Social Network
At the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
[Slides (PDF)]
Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thrwart Unwanted Communication
At the 5th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
[Slides (PDF)]
Structure and Growth of Online Social Networks
At the Microsoft Research Workshop on Online Social Networks, Cambridge, UK, December 2007.
[Slides (PDF)]
Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
At the 5th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'07), San Diego, CA, October 2007.
[Slides (PDF)]
Ostra: Leveraging Trust To Thrwart Unwanted Communication (work-in-progress)
At the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'07), Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
[Slides (PDF)]
Exploiting Social Networks for Internet Search
At the 5th Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets'06), Irvine, CA, November 2006.
[Slides (PDF)]
Experiences in building and operating ePOST, a reliable peer-to-peer application
At the 1st Conference of the European Professional Society for Systems (EuroSys'06), Leuven, Belgium, April 2006.
[Slides (PDF)]
Providing Administrative Control and Autonomy in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
At the 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'04), San Diego, CA, Feburary 2004.
[Slides (PDF)]
POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System
At the 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'03), Lihue, HI, May 2003.
[Slides (PDF)]

Press

Coverage of the PeerSpective project has appeared in New Scientist, MIT Technology Review (Germany), and again in New Scientist.
Articles on our Glasnost ISP transparency project have appeared in the New York Times, PC World, the Washington Times, and Ars Technica.
I was quoted in a New Scientist article concerning false Facebook profiles, and in another New Scientist article about predicting the popularity of items in online social networks.

Vita

My CV is available in PDF format.

Address:	`College of Computer and Information Science 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 USA`
Office:	`250 West Village H`
Phone:	`+1 617 373 7069`
Email:	`amislove (at) ccs (dot) neu (dot) edu`