Riley Spahn

My name is Riley Spahn. I am currently a computer science Ph.D. student at Columbia University working under Dr. Roxana Geambasu and Dr. Gail Kaiser. I am broadly interested in computer systems but I would like to focus on distributed systems, security and testing.

Experience

Columbia University, New York, NY (January 2013-Present)

I am currently working on a project related to fine grained control of sensitive data on mobile devices.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (June-August 2011, May-December 2012)

I worked in the Cyberspace Science and Information Intelligence Research Group (CSIIR) under Dr. John Goodall and Dr. Erirk Ferragut. I built distributed systems applications for data analytics using the Storm framework and NodeJS. I also worked on a system call based anomaly detection system.

Auburn University, Auburn, AL (February-May 2011, August 2011-May 2012)

At Auburn I worked under Dr. Xiao Qin and Dr. Orlando Acevedo. Under Dr. Acevedo I built a framework for molecular dynamics simulation framework parallelized using NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. In Dr. Qin's lab I worked on a distributed cryptosystem built on top of Apache Hadoop. I also wrote projects for a future Hadoop based distributed systems class.

Publications

• NV: Nessus vulnerability visualization for the web. Lane Harrison, Riley Spahn, Mike Iannacone, Evan Downing and John Goodall. Ninth International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2012), ACM.

Education

Columbia University, Ph.D. Computer Science

• January 2013 - Present
• New York, NY
• Selected Coursework:
  • Mobile and Cloud Security - Developed a UI based record and replay system for Android.
  • Operating Systems - Linux kernel development on the memory management and scheduling subsystems as well as the ext2 file system.

Auburn University, B.S. Software Engineering

• August 2008 - May 2012
• Auburn, AL
• Selected Coursework:
  • Computer Architecture - Designed a MIPS processor using VHDL.
  • Compiler Construction - Implemented a compiler for a C like language for the Parallax Propeller.
  • Senior Design - Built a framework for molecular dynamics simulation.

Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School, IB Diploma

• August 2004 - May 2008
• Birmingham, AL

Contact

rbs2152 at columbia dot edu