This thesis presents PrivaSee, proof-of-concept demo interface for reading privacy policies to aid user decision making by improving readability, comprehension, and understanding of the policy in relation to other privacy ...

This work examines the cryptographic notion of secure two-party communication. It analyzes optimal confidentiality and authenticity in the setting of an insecure channel, insecure user states, and leaky randomness. It ...

In the field of cryptography, the primitive of a one-way function is a powerful tool that can be effectively wielded to construct such tools as pseudorandom generators \citep{HILL99}, commitment schemes \citep{VZ11}, and ...

Network-based computational analysis of genome-wide data has been used to aid prediction of disease status with success in the past. Machine learning classifiers are usually applied to datasets of gene expression and/or ...

The resale concert ticket market is a largely unexplored domain in terms of rigorous statistical analysis. It is a market in which tickets are sold at multiples of their face value minutes after they are released to the ...

A novel coarse-to-fine alignment algorithm for small, circular sequences.

Register Allocation is a part of the compilation process in which virtual registers are mapped to a physical memory location. This problem is NP-hard yet also an integral part of the compilation process which has led to ...

Human language is built upon underlying structure, yet the text we are used to reading is displayed in a flat body with minimal context. I present READR, a tool that can identify and highlight hidden structures in text ...

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate based on race, color, or membership in a language minority group, and is often cited by plaintiffs seeking to ...

The impressive performance of machine learning models on prediction and classification tasks has sparked interest in deploying such models to make high-stakes decisions in domains such as health care and criminal justice. ...