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Alan MisloveAssistant Professor
College of Computer and Information Science
Office: 250 West Village H +1 617 373 7069 (p) amislove (at) ccs (dot) neu (dot) edu |
Bio
I am an Assistant Professor at 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 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 Saarbruecken and Kaiserslautern, Germany.My research interests currently lie in the area of social networks, distributed systems, and network measurement tools.
I am looking for talented, energetic Ph.D. students. If you are interested, I would encourage you to apply to our Ph.D. program.
Updates
- 08/05/10 My CNN.com opinion article about using Twitter for research is now available.
- 07/22/10 Our Twitter study receives wide media coverage, including CBS Evening News, BBC, New York Times, and many others.
- 07/13/10 Check out our recent analysis of the U.S. mood from Twitter data.
- 06/20/10 Our SIGCOMM paper on social network-based Sybil defense is now available.
- 06/01/10 The video of my recent WSDM talk is now available.
Projects
Current:
- Online Social Networks: Online social networks are emerging as an important medium for exchanging information. We conducted a large-scale measurement study of the structures of several online social network graphs, i.e., the network graphs formed by users connecting with their friends. We are currently investigating the dynamic evolution of these social network graphs and the ways in which information propagates over them. In the PeerSpective project, we explored how social networks could be used to improve Internet search. Our Ostra project shows how the implicit trust in social networks could be leveraged to prevent unwanted communication. Finally, our Twitter mood project demonstrated how social media can be used as a new tool to collect large-scale population demographics.
Previous:
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Glasnost: Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are increasingly deploying a variety of middleboxes
(e.g., firewalls, traffic shapers, censors, and redirectors) to monitor and to manipulate the performance of user applications. Most ISPs do not reveal the details of
their network deployments to their customers. We believe that this knowledge is important to help users make a more informed choice of their ISP. Further, such knowledge
is also useful for researchers designing protocols and systems that run on top of these networks. To improve network transparency, we are building online tools that allow
users to easily detect traffic manipulation by their ISPs.
- ePOST: Traditional collaborative applications are almost exclusively based on centralized servers, a fact which fundamentally limits their fault tolerance. POST presents an alternative base for such applications, and provides massive scalability and fault tolerance. ePOST is a backwards-compatible POST-based email service which provides better security, reliability, and durability guarantees than existing email systems. Based on the FreePastry peer-to-peer overlay, the ePOST deployment served as a proving group for the Glacier backup system and automatically scoped data placement.
Teaching
- CS5600 Computer Systems, Fall 2010
- CS7780 Topics in Networks, Spring 2010
- CS4700/CS5700 Fundamentals of Computer Networks, Fall 2009
Refereed Publications
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An Analysis of Social Network-based Sybil Defenses
Bimal Viswanath, Ansley Post, Krishna P. Gummadi, and Alan Mislove
In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM'10), New Delhi, India, August 2010. To appear.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Theses, Book Chapters, and other Non-Refereed Publications
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Online Social Networks: Measurement, Analysis, and Applications to Distributed Information Systems
Alan Mislove
Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, Rice University, May 2009. Advised by Peter Druschel and Krishna P. Gummadi.
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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.
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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.
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POST: A Decentralized Platform for Reliable Collaborative Applications
Alan Mislove
Master of Science Thesis, Rice University, December 2004. Advised by Peter Druschel.
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Talk Slides
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Social Media and Networks
At the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci'10), Boston, MA, May 2010.
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You are who you know: Inferring user profiles in Online Social Networks
At the 3rd ACM International Conference of Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'10), New York, NY, February 2010.
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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.
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Growth of the Flickr Social Network
At the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Social Networks (WOSN'08), Seattle, WA, August 2008.
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Ostra: Leveraging Trust to Thrwart Unwanted Communication
At the 5th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'08), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
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Structure and Growth of Online Social Networks
At the Microsoft Research Workshop on Online Social Networks, Cambridge, UK, December 2007.
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Measurement and Analysis of Online Social Networks
At the 5th ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'07), San Diego, CA, October 2007.
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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)]