Research

About Emil:

Emil's DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/s/Stefanov:Emil

Emil's CV, may not include the latest awards and publications.

Mirror of personal website:  http://web.rememberingemil.org/www.emilstefanov.html

Fellowships & Awards:

1. University of Maryland 2013 Invention of the Year for the paper Practical dynamic proofs of retrievability (with Elaine Shi and Charalampos Papamanthou)
2. Best Paper Award in CCS13 for the paper Path ORAM: an extremely simple oblivious RAM protocol
3. Finalist for AT&T Best Applied Security Paper Award (2013), for the paper: PHANTOM: Practical Oblivious Computation in a Secure Processor
4. NYU-POLY AT&T Best Applied Security Paper Award for the paper Iris: a scalable cloud file system with efficient integrity checks
5. NDSEG Fellowship and list of the 2011 awardees
6. U.C. Berkeley EECS Department Chair's Excellence Award, 2009
7. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009
8. Cisco Systems Scholarship, 2008
9. Lockheed Martin Scholarship, 2007
10. 4th place CERIAS Symposium research poster award out of 48 posters, 2007 (as a sophomore at Purdue)
11. FIRST Robotics National Website Design Award, 1st place out of 1,125, 2006 (as a supervisor of the West Lafayette High School Robotics Team)
12. Raytheon Systems Scholarship, 2006
13. ACM East Central North America Programming Contest, 7th of 113 teams

Press:

1. Emil's online course scheduling program
2. NPR: The end of anonymous commenting
3. Boing boing: Scalable stylometry: can we de-anonymize the Internet by analyzing writing style?
4. Slashdot: Anonymous Cowards, Deanonymized
5. IEEE spectrum: Hardware Trick Could Keep Cloud Data Safe (this MIT project uses Emil's Path ORAM algorithm)