Riley Spahn Email & Phone Number

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Software engineer working on high performance networking. I've done low level systems programming at the hardware software boundary on kernel bypass networking and remote direct memory access (RDMA) systems. Implemented support for new network hardware in a kernel bypass networking stack. Responsible for transport encryption in a kernel bypass networking stack including maintaining an encryption key management system and implementing a software version of the PSP Security Protocol.

Greater New York City Area

Developed two systems for private data management and machine learning: a differentially machine learning platform for privacy budget management (Sage - SOSP 2019) and a limited exposure data management system that leveraged differentially private count featurization to minimize training data (Pyramid - IEEE S&P 2017). I also developed a modified version of the Android operating system that leverage information flow tracking and embedded databases to build a high level data management API (Pebbles - OSDI 2014).

Greater New York City Area

Head teaching assistant for both the distance and on campus version of Advanced Software Engineering - COMS W4156

Mountain View, Ca

Interned on the Applied Privacy Research team. I developed a machine learning pipeline to analyze privacy preferences using TensorFlow, Flume, Python, and C++.

Mountain View, Ca

Interned on the Android Platform Security team. I developed a system centralized and auditable access control policies for Android system services using SELinux. Much of this work was released in Lollipop and Marshmallow.

Oak Ridge, Tn

Developed software for the Cyberspace Science and Information Intelligence Research Group in Python and Scala. I did backend development using Apache Storm and Scala for a streaming log analysis and anomaly detection system. I assisted developing the NV tool for visualizing audits from Tenable Network Security’s Nessus scanner.

Auburn, Al

Worked under Dr. Xiao Qin to develop a parallel encryption system. I also worked with Dr. Orlando Acevedo to develop a molecular dynamics simulation framework on top of NVIDIA's CUDA.

Maintained printers and performed help desk support.

I was a summer research intern working in the Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research Group developing a system call based intrusion detection system.

I repaired and built bicycles.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Privacy

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: ACM Vice President, Magna Cum Laude