saikat guha
About Me
I am a researcher at Microsoft Research India. I completed my Ph.D. in 2009 at Cornell Univeristy under Paul Francis, and worked briefly as a post-doctoral researcher at MPI-SWS.
My current research interests lie in systems approaches to online privacy. I am particularly interested in safeguarding user privacy in a way that does not disrupt the emerging business models behind cloud computing and online social networks. I am currently working on a private online advertising system. I previously worked on evolving the Internet architecture without a clean-slate overhaul; this involved exploring the design space of lightweight signaling protocols to solve the problem of TCP NAT Traversal, design and deploy an End-Middle-End Internet architecture, and mitigate unwanted traffic. I have also dabbled in projects in the peer-to-peer and mobile space.
Recent Publications
- S. Guha, B. Cheng and P. Francis. “
Challenges in Measuring Online Advertising Systems,” In Proceedings of Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2010. 
- M. Dischinger, M. Marcon, S. Guha, K. Gummadi, R. Mahajan and S. Saroiu. “ Glasnost: Enabling End Users to Detect Traffic Differentiation,” In Proceedings of 7th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, Apr 2010.
- S. Guha, A. Reznichenko, K. Tang, H. Haddadi and P. Francis. “ Serving Ads from localhost for Performance, Privacy, and Profit,” In Proceedings of Hot Topics in Networking (HotNets), New York, NY, Oct 2009.
