Flavio du Pin Calmon - MIT

Flavio du Pin Calmon

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77 Massachusetts Avenue, 36-512K – Cambridge MA, 02139 (617) 768 7484 •  fl[email protected] •  www.mit.edu/∼flavio

Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, GPA: 5.00/5.00

Cambridge, MA June 2015 (expected)

Minor: Mathematics Member of the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. Research advisors: Prof. Muriel Médard (main advisor) and Prof. Yury Polyanskiy (co-advisor) Thesis Committee: Prof. Muriel Médard, Prof. Yury Polyanskiy, Prof. Shafi Goldwasser, Prof. Ken R. Duffy, Dr. Mayank Varia, Dr. Nadia Fawaz

Universidade Estadual de Campinas M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, GPA: 4.00/4.00

São Paulo, Brazil 2009

Thesis: General exact formulations for the outage probability and for the performance of a hybrid combining method in wireless communication systems. Research advisor: Prof. Michel Daoud Yacoub

Universidade de Brasília B.Sc. in Communications Engineering, GPA: 4.93/5.0

Senior thesis: Design and Implementation of Stream Ciphers Based on Cellular Automata.

Federal District, Brazil 2006

Research and Professional Experience Research assistant Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group, RLE, MIT

2009–Present

Research collaboration with the Cyber Systems and Technology Group MIT Lincoln Laboratory

2011–Present

Main research themes: Inference, information theory, privacy and security, statistics, network coding applied to content distribution. Advisors: Prof. Muriel Médard and Prof. Yury Polyanskiy

Developed information-theoretic and statistical tools for quantifying the performance of security and privacy systems.

Internship Technicolor Lab, Palo Alto, CA

2012

Visiting graduate student Data Compression Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

2011

Created algorithms for anonymizing large data sets. Mentors: Dr. Nadia Fawaz, Dr. Jean Bolot

Applied network equivalence theory to quantify the capacity of large wireless networks. Host: Prof. Michelle Effros

Awards, Honors and Scholarships

2011: Avery Alan Ashdown Leadership Award for outstanding service and leadership to the Ashdown House community. 2009: Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Presidential Fellowship for graduate studies at MIT. 2007-2009: The State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) scholarship for M.Sc. research. 2006: Honor of Merit Award from the Brazilian Council of Engineers for the highest GPA in the Communications Engineering Class of Spring’06 of the University of Brasilia. 2004-2006: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) scholarship for undergraduate research.

Academic Activities and Service

Spring 2014: MIT Teaching Certificate Program for graduate students 2014-Present: Mentor for the MIT undergraduate research opportunities program (UROP) 2011: Grader for Discrete Stochastic Processes (6.262) at EECS, MIT Fall 2010: Teaching Assistant for Principles of Digital Communications I (6.450) at EECS, MIT 2008–Present: Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IET Electronics Letters.

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Information, Inference, and Privacy - University of Southern California, March 2015 - Harvard University, Jan. 2015 Information Theoretic Metrics For Security and Privacy - Princeton University, 2014 - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014 - 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2014 - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Data Privacy, Hamilton Institute, Ireland, 2014 On the Role of Principal Inertia Components in Information Theory - Information Theory Workshop, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2014 Lists That Are Smaller Than Their Parts: A Coding Approach to Tunable Secrecy - Hamilton Institute, Ireland, 2013 - Polytech Annecy-Chambéry, Annecy, France, 2013 - 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2012 A Framework for Privacy Against Statistical Inference - 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2012 - UC Berkeley, California, 2012 - Technicolor Research, Palo Alto, California 2012 Equivalent Models for Multi-Terminal Channels - Information Theory Workshop, Paraty, Brazil, 2011

Selected Publications and Working Papers

F. P. Calmon, M. Varia, M. Médard, M. M. Christiansen, K. R. Duffy, L. Zeger, and J. Barros, “Revisiting the Shannon theory approach to cryptography,” workshop paper to be presented at the International Conf. on Info. Theo. Security (ICITS), 2015. F. P. Calmon, A. Makhdoumi, and M. Médard, “Fundamental limits of perfect privacy,” Accepted to the International Symp. on Info. Theory, 2015. F. P. Calmon, Y. Polyanskiy, and Y. Wu, “Strong data processing inequalities in power-constrained gaussian channels,” Accepted to the International Symp. on Info. Theory, 2015. A. Makhdoumi, F. P. Calmon, and M. Médard, “Forgot your password: Correlation dilution,” Accepted to the International Symp. on Info. Theory, 2015. F. P. Calmon, M. Varia, M. Médard, M. M. Christiansen, K. R. Duffy, and L. Zeger, “Hiding symbols and functions: New metrics for information-theoretic security and related constructions,” Submitted to the IEEE Tran. on Info. Theory, 2015. F. P. Calmon, M. Varia, M. Médard, M. M. Christiansen, and K. R. Duffy, “Bounds on inference: A study of the spectrum of the conditional expectation operator,” In preparation. M. M. Christiansen, K. R. Duffy, F. P. Calmon, and M. Médard, “Quantifying the computational security of multi-user systems,” Submitted to the IEEE Tran. on Info. Theory, 2014. F. P. Calmon, M. Varia, and M. Médard, “On information-theoretic metrics for symmetric-key encryption and privacy,” in Proc. 52nd Annual Allerton Conf. on Commun., Control, and Comput., 2014. ——, “An exploration of the role of principal inertia components in information theory,” in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop, Nov. 2014. F. P. Calmon, M. Varia, M. Médard, M. M. Christiansen, K. R. Duffy, and S. Tessaro, “Bounds on inference,” in Proc. 51st Annual Allerton Conf. on Commun., Control, and Comput., 2013. J. Cloud, F. P. Calmon, W. Zeng, G. Pau, L. M. Zeger, and M. Médard, “Multi-path TCP with network coding for mobile devices in heterogeneous networks,” in IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference, 2013, pp. 1–5. M. M. Christiansen, K. R. Duffy, F. P. Calmon, and M. Médard, “Brute force searching, the typical set and guesswork,” in Proc. 2013 IEEE Int. Symp. on Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2013, pp. 1257–1261. ——, “Guessing a password over a wireless channel (on the effect of noise non-uniformity),” in 2013 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2013, pp. 51–55. S. Salamatian, A. Zhang, F. P. Calmon, S. Bhamidipati, N. Fawaz, B. Kveton, P. Oliveira, and N. Taft, “How to hide the elephant-or the donkey-in the room: Practical privacy against statistical inference for large data,” in IEEE GlobalSIP, 2013. 2/3

A. Rezaee, F. P. Calmon, L. M. Zeger, and M. Médard, “Speeding multicast by acknowledgment reduction technique (SMART) enabling robustness of QoE to the number of users,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 1270 –1280, Aug. 2012. F. P. Calmon and N. Fawaz, “A framework for privacy against statistical inference,” in Proc. 50th Annual Allerton Conf. on Commun., Control, and Comput., 2012. F. P. Calmon, M. Médard, L. Zeger, J. Barros, M. M. Christiansen, and K. R. Duffy, “Lists that are smaller than their parts: A coding approach to tunable secrecy,” in Proc. 50th Annual Allerton Conf. on Commun., Control, and Comput., 2012. F. P. Calmon, M. Médard, and M. Effros, “Equivalent models for multi-terminal channels,” in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop, Oct. 2011. F. P. Calmon and M. Yacoub, “MRCS – selecting maximal ratio combined signals: a practical hybrid diversity combining scheme,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 3425 –3429, Jul. 2009. F. P. Calmon and M. Yacoub, “A general exact formulation for the outage probability in interference-limited systems,” in IEEE Global Telecom. Conference (GLOBECOM), Nov. 2008. F. P. Calmon and M. Yacoub, “A practical diversity combining scheme based on the selection of maximal ratio combined signals,” in Proc. of the XXVI Brazilian Telecom. Symp., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008. ——, “Joint outage probability: An exact formulation for the outage problem in wireless systems,” in Proc. of the XXVI Brazilian Telecom. Symp., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008. F. P. Calmon, F. M. Costa, and A. C. A. Nascimento, “Design of a stream cipher based on cellular automata (in Portuguese),” in Proce. of the XXVI Brazilian Telecom. Symp., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008.

Patents (approved and applied)

M. Médard, F. P. Calmon and W. Zeng, “Method and apparatus for implementing distributed content caching in a content delivery network”, WO2014159605 A1, Oct. 2nd 2014. F. P. Calmon, M. Médard, L. M. Zeger, M. M. Christiansen, and K. R. Duffy, “Method and apparatus for secure communication,” WO2014160194 A2, Oct. 2nd 2014. M. Médard, F. P. Calmon and W. Zeng, “Method and Apparatus for Implementing Distributed Content Caching In A Content Delivery Network,” US20140280454 A1, 18th Sep 2014. N. Fawaz, S. Salamatian, F. P. Calmon et al., “Privacy against interference attack for large data,” WO2014123893 A1, Aug. 14th 2014. N. Fawaz, S. Salamatian, F. P. Calmon et al., “Privacy against interference attack against mismatched prior,” WO2014124175 A1, Aug. 14th 2014. N. Fawaz and F. P. Calmon, “A method and apparatus for privacy-preserving data mapping under a privacy-accuracy trade-off,” WO2014031551 A1, Feb. 27th 2014. F. P. Calmon, J. M. Cloud, M. Médard, and W. Zeng, “Multi-Path Data Transfer Using Network Coding,” US20130195106 A1, Aug. 1st 2013. F. P. Calmon, J. M. Cloud, M. Médard, and W. Zeng, “Multi-Path Data Transfer Using Network Coding,” WO2013116456 A1, Aug. 8th 2013.

Citizenship

Citizen of the United States of America and Citizen of Brazil (dual citizenship).

Languages Natural: English (native), Portuguese (native), Spanish (intermediate). Artificial: Matlab, R, C++, Java, Python, VHDL, Mathematica, LATEX.

References

Prof. Muriel Médard: [email protected] Prof. Yury Polyanskiy: [email protected] Prof. Ken R. Duffy: ken.duff[email protected] Prof. R. Srikant: [email protected] Dr. Mayank Varia: [email protected] Dr. Nadia Fawaz: [email protected] 3/3