Contact Information
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IBM Research GmbH |
At IBM: +41 44 724 8692 |
email: tshb@cryptocracy.net |
Education
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2008 – 2011 (expected) |
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology) |
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2004 – 2007 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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2003 – 2004 |
Columbia University |
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1996 – 2000 |
Yale University |
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1990 – 1996 |
Riverdale Country School |
Interests
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Privacy, security, and identity management in both traditional and pervasive contexts. Biometry. |
Awards
| IEEE Security and Privacy Best Paper award for Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses |
Peer-Reviewed Publications [bibtex]
| Rethinking Accountable Privacy
Supporting Services Jan Camenisch, Thomas Gross, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin |
ACM Digital Identity Management, October 2008 |
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Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel M.D. |
Winner: best paper award IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2008 |
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Security
and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices |
IEEE Pervasive Computing, January 2008 |
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Vulnerabilities
in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards |
Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2007 |
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Nonesuch: A Mix Network with Sender Unobservability Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Andrei Serjantov, and Benessa Defend |
Workshop for Privacy in Electronic Society 2006 |
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Privacy
for Public Transit |
Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2006 |
Panels and invited talks
| Invited talk: Anonymous Credentials in Electronic ID | Advanced
Applications for Electric Identity Cards (ADAPID) 2008 Leuven, Belgium |
| Invited talk: Privacy Supporting Identity Systems - Theory Meets Practice | The
International Conference on Java Technology (Jazoon) 2008 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Invited talk: Privacy and Identity Management | Secure
Vehicular Communications: Results and Challenges Ahead February 2008 EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland |
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Panel: Ethics in Privacy Research |
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2007 |
Program Committee Memberships
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, HotPETs co-chair |
2008, 2009 |
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Workshop for Privacy in Electronic Society: Private Information Management session chair |
2006, 2007 |
Other peer review
| Journal of Computer Science | 2008 | |
| ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) | 2008 | |
| IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) | 2008 | |
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IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) |
2006 - 2008 |
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Financial Cryptography and Data Security |
2008 |
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IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure
Computing |
2008 |
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
2007 |
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Network and Distributed System Security Symposium |
2006 - 2007 |
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ACM Communications and Computer Security (CCS) |
2007 |
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Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec) |
2007 |
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International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security |
2007 |
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IFIP SEC |
2007 |
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IEEE Infocom |
2006 |
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Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies |
2005 |
Other Committees and Service
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2004 – 2006 |
Academic Standards and Curriculum Committee of the Graduate School (ASCC) |
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2004 – 2006 |
UMASS Graduate Council: the advisory and oversight committee of the graduate school |
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2004 – 2006 |
Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Student Information Systems (ACSIS) |
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2004 – 2006 |
Elected representative of the computer science department to the Graduate Student Senate |
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1999 – 2000 |
Yale University computer science department: elected member of the student advisory committee. |
Selected Media Coverage
| "A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks" in The New York Times March 12th 2008 | |
| "Heart-Device Hacking Risks Seen" in The Wall Street Journal, March 12th 2008 | |
| Guest on National Public Radio's Leonard Lopate show to discuss privacy for public transportation, 40 minute interview, March 9, 2007 | |
| "Security researcher shows just how easy it is to steal personal data from RFID-bearing credit cards", live interview on Fox news, December 2006 | |
| "'Smart' cards are quick, but are they safe?" on NBC's Today Show, October 26, 2006 | |
| "No-Swipe Credit Cards Could Make ID Theft Easier" on ABC's Good Morning America, October 24, 2006 | |
| "Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards" by John Schwartz. In The New York Times October 23, 2006 |
Popular science and public service
| 2008 | Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner's office: RFID and electronic drivers' licence related subjects. | |
| 2008 | Consumer Reports: advice on and explaination of RFID related subjects. |
Teaching and advising
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Spring 2007 – Fall 2007 |
Honors diploma thesis advisor: Advisor to Timur Alperovich and Shane Clark for research in embedded device security and privacy. |
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Spring 2006 |
Research mentor: Mentored Russel Silva on topics in embedded device security and privacy. |
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Spring 2005 |
Teaching Associate (Instructor) cs197c: The C++ Programming Language |
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Teaching Assistant cs445: Information Systems |
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Winter 2005 |
Teaching Associate (Instructor): The Unix Programming Environment |
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2000 – 2004 |
AB level Advanced Placement Computer Science |
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Introduction to Technology for Grade Nine / Ten |
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2000 – 2002 |
Introduction to Technology for Grade Seven |
Professional Experience
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2008 – 2011 (expected) |
IBM Research Zurich |
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Summer 2007 |
IBM Research Zurich |
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2000 – 2004 |
Riverdale Country School Department of Computer
Science and Technology |
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Further system administration experience and references available upon request. |
Personal
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2006-2007 Religious education leader for grade 8 at the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, MA |
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Captain Emeritus of the UMASS Tae Kwon Do team |
Memberships
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International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) |
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International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA) |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
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The Ivy-Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League (ICTL) |