Curriculum Vitae

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2005

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

Dissertation: Design Principles and Patterns for Computer Systems that are Simultaneously Secure and Usable,

Supervised by David D. Clark and Robert C. Miller.

Honorable mention for the 2005 George M. Sprowls award for the best doctoral theses in computer science.

Columbia University School of Journalism, New York, 1988

S.M. in Journalism with honors

Master's thesis: Tenant Screening Services in the United States.

Supervised by Steven Ross.

Winner of the 1988 Elisabbeta DiCagno Award "for the best investigative story on environmental protection or human rights."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1987

S.B. Chemistry; S.B. Political Science; S.B. program in Science, Technology and Society

Bachelor's thesis: Radio Research, McCarthyism and Paul F. Lazarsfeld [OCR]

Supervised by Peter Buck.

Research and Professional Experience

Sponsored Research

• Principal Investigator, DARPA Sector Discrimination Seedling, November 2008--September 2009.
• Principal Investigator, NIST/NPS Interagency Agreement M92367, "Support of NIST Computer Forensics Testing Program," November 2008--January 2009.
• Principal Investigator, NPS/ITACS, "S/MIME Research," October 2008--September 2009.
• Principal Investigator, Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), NPS Award NR: R92NL--106, "Detecting Network Membership with Cross-Drive Analysis," December 2007--September 2008.
• Senior Research Staff, NSF Award 0730389, EXP-SA: Prediction and Detection of Network Membership through Automated Hard Drive Analysis, August 1, 2007--July 31, 2010. Patrick Wolfe, Principle Investigator.

Papers in Refereed Journals and Magazines

1. Roussev, Vassil, and Garfinkel, Simson., File Classification Fragment---The Case for Specialized---Approaches, Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensics Engineering (IEEE/SADFE 2009), Oakland, California.
2. Garfinkel, Simson., Automating Disk Forensic Processing with SleuthKit, XML and Python,Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensics Engineering (IEEE/SADFE 2009), Oakland, California.
3. Garfinkel, S., and Migletz, J., The new XML Office Document Files, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, March/April 2009 (Vol. 7, No. 2)
4. Garfinkel, S., Providing Cryptographic Security and Evidentiary Chain-of-Custody with the Advanced Forensic Format, Library, and Tools The International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, Volume 1, Issue 1, January-March 2009.
5. Garfinkel, S., "Sharp Figures, Fuzzy Purpose" (review of Security Data Visualization: Graphical Techniques for Network Analysis by Greg Conti), IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, March/April 2008 (Vol. 6, No. 2), p. 5
6. Palankar, M., Iamnitchi, A., Ripeanu, M., and Garfinkel, S. "Amazon S3 for Science Grids: a Viable Solution?", International Workshop on Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC'08), June 23-27, 2008, Boston, MA
7. Garfinkel, S., "Carving Contiguous and Fragmented Files with Fast Object Validation", Digital Investigation, Volume 4, Supplement 1, September 2007, Pages 2--12.
8. Garfinkel, S. "Complete Delete vs. Time Machine Computing," Operating Systems Review, ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems, January 2007.
9. Garfinkel, S., and Smith, M., "Data Surveillance" (Guest Editor's Introduction), IEEE Security and Privacy, November/December 2006
10. Garfinkel, S., "Forensic Feature Extraction and Cross-Drive Analysis," Digital Investigation, Volume 3, Supplement 1, September 2006, Pages 71--81.
11. Garfinkel, S., "AFF: A New Format for Storing Hard Drive Images," Communications of the ACM, February, 2006.
12. The Common Evidence Format Working Group (Carrier, B., Casey, E., Garfinkel, S., Kornblum, J., Hosmer, C., Rogers., M., and Turner., P.,) "Standardizing Digital Evidence Storage," Communications of the ACM, February, 2006.
13. Garfinkel, S., Juels, A., Pappu, R., "RFID Privacy: An Overview of Problems and Proposed Solutions," IEEE Security and Privacy, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 34-43, May-June 2005.
14. Garfinkel, S. Email-Based Identification and Authentication: An Alternative to PKI?, IEEE Security and Privacy, November/December 2003.
15. Garfinkel, S. "Leaderless Resistance Today", First Monday, 8:3, March 3rd, 2003.
16. Garfinkel, S. and Shelat, A., "Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices," IEEE Security and Privacy, January/February 2003.
17. Garfinkel, S. L., "Public Key Cryptography," IEEE Computer, Volume 29, Issue 6, June 1996. pages 101-104.
18. Stallman, R., and Garfinkel, S. "Against Software Patents", Communications of the ACM, Volume 35, Issue 1 (January 1992), pages 17-22, 121.
19. Stallman, R., and Garfinkel, S. "Against User Interface Copyright", Communications of the ACM, Volume 33, Issue 11 (November 1990), pages 15-18.