Franzi Roesner

University of Washington
Computer Science and Engineering
185 Stevens Way, AC101
Paul G. Allen Center, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Office: CSE 510, Lab: CSE 505

franzi (at) cs.washington.edu

About
Research
Teaching
Academic
Personal

I'm a third-year CSE Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. Broadly speaking, my research interests include security, privacy, and systems. My advisor is Tadayoshi Kohno, and I currently also collaborate with David Wetherall as well as with Helen Wang and others at Microsoft Research. I am a member of the UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab.

Previously, I interned with Doug Burger in the Extreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond; I also interned twice at Amazon.com, once in the security group. I received my B.S. in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2008, and then took a year to teach English at a high school in Mulhouse, France and to travel around Europe. I received my M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in June 2011.

I am the recipient of a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship (2012) and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2010).

CV [PDF]

Software

ShareMeNot (Firefox Add-On) [Homepage] [BoingBoing] [EFF]
Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Wetherall. (Initial public release: July 19, 2011)
ShareMeNot is designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook "Like" button or the Twitter "tweet" button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them. Unlike traditional solutions, ShareMeNot does this without completely removing the buttons from the web experience. Please visit the ShareMeNot homepage at sharemenot.cs.washington.edu for more information and to download the add-on.

Publications

Conference

User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems. [To Appear]
Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Alexander Moshchuk, Bryan Parno, Helen J. Wang, and Crispin Cowan.
33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2012). San Francisco, CA, May 2012.

Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web. [To Appear]
Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, and David Wetherall.
9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2012). San Jose, CA, April 2012.

Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces. [Link to PDF] [NY Times] [Slashdot]
Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
20th USENIX Security Symposium. San Francisco, CA, August 2011.

Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile. [Link to PDF] [NY Times] [BBC] [Zeit] [Slashdot]
Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Shwetak Patel, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephen Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Brian Kantor, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, and Stefan Savage.
31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2010). Oakland, CA, May 2010.

Counting Dependence Predictors. [PDF]
Franziska Roesner, Doug Burger, and Stephen W. Keckler.
35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2008). Beijing, China, June 2008.

Late-Binding: Enabling Unordered Load-Store Queues. [PDF]
Simha Sethumadhavan, Franziska Roesner, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler and Joel Emer.
34th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2007). San Diego, CA, June 2007.

Tech Report

User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems. [Link to PDF]
Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Alexander Moshchuk, Bryan Parno, Helen J. Wang, and Crispin Cowan.
Microsoft Research Tech Report #MSR-TR-2011-91. August 2, 2011 (updated November 2011).

Theses

User-Driven Access Control: A New Model for Granting Permissions in Modern Operating Systems. [PDF]
Franziska Roesner. Advised by Tadayoshi Kohno and Helen Wang.
University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, Qualifying Examination Project. April 2011.

Counting Dependence Predictors. [PDF]
Franziska Roesner. Advised by Doug Burger.
The University of Texas at Austin, Tech Report #HR-08-08 (CS Undergraduate Honors Thesis). May 2008.
UTCS 2008 Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award.

Teaching Assistantships

CSE 564: Computer Security and Privacy (Spring 2011)
Instructor: Tadayoshi Kohno
No set office hours, but feel free to email me or find me in the lab (CSE 505) or in my office (CSE 510).

Graduate Coursework

Ubiquitous Computing (CSE 599U): Winter 2012, instructor Shwetak Patel
Software Engineering (CSE 503): Spring 2011, instructor David Notkin
Human-Computer Interaction (CSE 510): Winter 2011, instructor James Fogarty
Computer Networks (CSE 561): Spring 2010, instructor David Wetherall
Operating Systems and the Web (CSE 599W): Winter 2010, instructor Steve Gribble
Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CSE 521): Winter 2010, instructor Paul Beame
Programming Languages (CSE 505): Autumn 2009, instructor Dan Grossman
Computer Architecture (CS 382M at UT Austin): Fall 2006, instructor Doug Burger

Education History

M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 2009 - 2011.
B.S. Turing Scholars Honors Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2004 - 2008.
B.A. Plan II Honors, University of Texas at Austin, 2004 - 2008.

Elsewhere

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Other Interests

our two kittens, travel, reading, photos, yoga, hiking, skiing, swimming, my hometown Austin, philosophy, French

Travel

I love to travel. Alphabetically by country, I've been to:

Austria - Vienna (2008)
Barbados - Bridgetown (2011)
Belgium - Antwerp, Bruges (2009)
Belize - Caye Caulker (2010)
Canada - Vancouver (1998/2008), Montreal (2009), Whistler (2011)
China - Beijing, Qingdao (2008)
Czech Republic - Prague (2008)
Ecuador - Quito, Otavalo, Cotopaxi, Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (2008)
England - London (2009)
France - Arles (study abroad in 2006), Mulhouse (teaching English in 2008-2009), Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Cannes, Colmar, Strasbourg, etc., Saint Martin (Caribbean, 2011)
Germany - often and many cities; I was born there.
Greece - Athens (2009)
Guatemala - Flores, Tikal, Antigua, Atitlan (2010)
Italy - Florence, Rome, Venice (2009)
Mexico - Cancun, Chetumal (2010)
Netherlands - Amsterdam (2009), Sint Maarten (Caribbean, 2011)
Puerto Rico - San Juan (2011)
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Kitts (2011)
Saint Lucia - Saint Lucia (2011)
Spain - Barcelona (2009), Malaga, Granada, Sevilla, Cordoba, Salamanca, Madrid (all 2002)
Sweden - Stockholm (2011)
Switzerland - Basel (2008/2009)
Turkey - Istanbul (2009)
USA - Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Florida, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New York, Nevada, Utah
US Virgin Islands - Saint Thomas (2011)

Last updated February 2012.