Sebastian Angel
Raj and Neera Singh Term Assistant Professor
Levine Hall, Office 604
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
I'm an assistant professor of Computer and Information Science at UPenn, and I'm part of the Distributed Systems Laboratory. I also run Penn's security reading group. Prior to joining Penn, I was a visiting academic at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and spent a lot of time working with amazing folks at Microsoft Research in the Cambridge, Redmond, and New York City labs.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UT Austin where I was part of the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research and was advised by Michael Walfish.
My work studies different aspects of systems, security, privacy, and networking. I'm particularly interested in:
- Understanding how the systems that we use today unintentionally leak information.
- Building the next generation of anonymous and censorship-resistant communication systems.
- Building tools to help developers incorporate advanced cryptographic primitives into their applications.
- Making concurrent programming easier for developers.
Courses
Students
- Andrew Beams (PhD)
- Haoran Zhang (PhD, co-advised with Vincent Liu)
- Ke Zhong (PhD)
- Varad Deshpande (Masters)
- Baile Chen (Undergrad)
Program committee
Recent publications (see all)
Rethinking Data Management Systems for Disaggregated Data Centers
CIDR 2020 (to appear), Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2020.
Deferred Runtime Pipelining for contentious multicore software transactions
EuroSys 2019, Dresden, Germany, March 2019. [abstract, paper, extended report, slides]
Proving the correct execution of concurrent services in zero-knowledge
OSDI 2018, Carlsbad, CA, October 2018. [abstract, paper, extended report]
What's a little leakage between friends?
WPES 2018, Toronto, Canada, October 2018. [abstract, paper, slides]
PIR with compressed queries and amortized query processing
S&P 2018 (Oakland), San Francisco, CA, May 2018. [abstract, paper, slides, code]