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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to trusted mobile systems and services
  • 2010 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Alec Wolman is a researcher affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their academic work focuses primarily on computer science, with significant contributions to subfields including artificial intelligence, hardware and architecture, and signal processing.

The scientist's research prominently covers topics such as security and verification in computing, physical unclonable functions (PUFs) and hardware security, cryptographic implementations and security, and advanced malware detection techniques.

Recent publications by Alec Wolman include:

  • The Price of Secrecy: How Hiding Internal DRAM Topologies Hurts Rowhammer Defenses, 2022, 2022 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS)
  • Are We Susceptible to Rowhammer? An End-to-End Methodology for Cloud Providers, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolman are:

  • Stefan Saroiu
  • Lucian Cojocar
  • Jeremie Kim
  • Minesh Patel
  • Lillian L. Tsai

The venues where Wolman has published include:

  • 2022 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Alec Wolman has been recognized with awards such as the ACM Fellow in 2018, awarded for contributions to trusted mobile systems and services, and the ACM Distinguished Member in 2010.

Best Publications

  • MAUI: making smartphones last longer with code offload

    Eduardo Cuervo;Aruna Balasubramanian;Dae-ki Cho;Alec Wolman

  • A multi-radio unification protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

    A. Adya;P. Bahl;J. Padhye;A. Wolman

  • SkipNet: a scalable overlay network with practical locality properties

    Nicholas J. A. Harvey;Michael B. Jones;Stefan Saroiu;Marvin Theimer

  • On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching

    Alec Wolman;M. Voelker;Nitin Sharma;Neal Cardwell

  • Volley: automated data placement for geo-distributed cloud services

    Sharad Agarwal;John Dunagan;Navendu Jain;Stefan Saroiu

  • Reconsidering wireless systems with multiple radios

    Paramvir Bahl;Atul Adya;Jitendra Padhye;Alec Wolman

  • Measurement and analysis of a streaming-media workload

    Maureen Chesire;Alec Wolman;Geoffrey M. Voelker;Henry M. Levy

  • An evaluation of scalable application-level multicast built using peer-to-peer overlays

    M. Castro;M. B. Jones;A.-M. Kermarrec;A. Rowstron

  • MCDNN: An Approximation-Based Execution Framework for Deep Stream Processing Under Resource Constraints

    Seungyeop Han;Haichen Shen;Matthai Philipose;Sharad Agarwal

  • Enabling new mobile applications with location proofs

    Stefan Saroiu;Alec Wolman

  • Instrumentation and optimization of Win32/intel executables using Etch

    Ted Romer;Geoff Voelker;Dennis Lee;Alec Wolman

  • Wireless wakeups revisited: energy management for voip over wi-fi smartphones

    Yuvraj Agarwal;Ranveer Chandra;Alec Wolman;Paramvir Bahl

  • I am a sensor, and I approve this message

    Stefan Saroiu;Alec Wolman

  • Using ARM trustzone to build a trusted language runtime for mobile applications

    Nuno Santos;Himanshu Raj;Stefan Saroiu;Alec Wolman

  • Designing high performance enterprise Wi-Fi networks

    Rohan Murty;Jitendra Padhye;Ranveer Chandra;Alec Wolman

  • Lockr: better privacy for social networks

    Amin Tootoonchian;Stefan Saroiu;Yashar Ganjali;Alec Wolman

  • Outatime: Using Speculation to Enable Low-Latency Continuous Interaction for Mobile Cloud Gaming

    Kyungmin Lee;David Chu;Eduardo Cuervo;Johannes Kopf

  • Enhancing the security of corporate Wi-Fi networks using DAIR

    Paramvir Bahl;Ranveer Chandra;Jitendra Padhye;Lenin Ravindranath

  • Virtual compass: relative positioning to sense mobile social interactions

    Nilanjan Banerjee;Sharad Agarwal;Paramvir Bahl;Ranveer Chandra

  • The structure and performance of interpreters

    Theodore H. Romer;Dennis Lee;Geoffrey M. Voelker;Alec Wolman

  • A multi-radio unification protocol for ieee 802

    Atul Adya;Paramvir Bahl;Jitendra Padhye;Alec Wolman

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Saroiu
Stefan Saroiu Microsoft (United States)
Jitendra Padhye
Jitendra Padhye Microsoft (United States)
Paramvir Bahl
Paramvir Bahl Microsoft (United States)
Ranveer Chandra
Ranveer Chandra Microsoft (United States)
Marvin M. Theimer
Marvin M. Theimer Microsoft (United States)
Henry M. Levy
Henry M. Levy University of Washington
John Dunagan
John Dunagan Microsoft (United States)
Sharad Agarwal
Sharad Agarwal Microsoft (United States)
Jason Flinn
Jason Flinn Facebook (United States)
Atul Adya
Atul Adya Google (United States)

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