saikat guha
About Me
I am a researcher with the Mobility, Networks, and Systems group at Microsoft Research India.
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, M. Jain and V. Padmanabhan. “Koi: A Location-Privacy Platform for Smartphone Apps,” To appear in Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, Apr 2012.
- A. Reznichenko, S. Guha and P. Francis. “
Auctions in Do-Not-Track Compliant Internet Advertising,” In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, IL, Oct 2011. 
- S. Guha, B. Cheng and P. Francis. “ Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising,” In Proceedings of the 8th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, Mar 2011.
