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Contact Info:
Dr. Danny Bickson
School of
5000
Office: GATES 8004
Office phone: 412-268-3953
Cell phone: 412-596-0045
danny.bickson*g-m-a-i-l.c-o-m
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in
My advisors are Prof. Carlos
Guestrin (CMU) and Prof. Joe Hellerstein (Berkeley)
University:
2003 –
2008 Ph. D. at the
Advisors: Prof.
Danny Dolev and Prof. Dahlia Malkhi.
Areas of interest:
Communications, Network Security, Distributed Systems, graphical models,
iterative algorithms.
Gaussian Belief Propagation Resources
2000
Advisor: Prof. Dahlia
Malkhi.
Thesis
title: Steganographic Communications using the Gnutella Network ps.gz
1996-1998
– B.Sc. in Computer
Science,
Publications:
Distributed fault
identification via non-parametric belief
propagation. D. Bickson, H. Avissar, D. Dolev, S.
P. Boyd, A. T. Ihler and D. Baron.
Manuscript in preparation. arxiv
Distributed sensor
selection via Gaussian belief propagation.
D. Bickson and D. Dolev. Manuscript in preperation. arxiv
Self-stabilizing
numerical iterative computation. D. Bickson, E. N. Hoch, H. Avissar and D. Dolev.
In Theory of Computer
Science Journal, submitted for publication, Jan. 2009. arxiv
Peer-to-Peer secure
multi-party numerical computation facing malicious adversaries. D. Bickson, T. Reinman, D. Dolev and B. Pinkas.
In Peer-to-Peer Networking
and Applications (PPNA) journal, May 2009. arxiv
A Low density lattice
decoder via non-parametric belief propagation. D. Bickson, H. Avissar, A. Ihler and D. Dolev.
In the 47th Annual Allerton
Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton House,
Sept. 2009, to appear. arxiv
Fixing convergence of Gaussian
belief propagation algorithm. J. K.
Johnson, D. Bickson and D. Dolev.
In the International
symposium on information theory (ISIT), July 2009. arxiv
Distributed
large scale network utility maximization. D.
Bickson, Y. Tock, A. Zymnis, S. Boyd and D. Dolev.
In the International
symposium on information theory (ISIT), July 2009. arxiv
A
statistical approach to monitoring of soft-real time distributed systems. D. Bickson, G. Gershinsky, E. Hoch and K. Shagin.
Submitted for publication.
Nov. 2008. arxiv
A
hybrid unicast-multicast infrastructure for efficient publish subscribe in
enterprise networks.
D. Bickson, H. Hoch, N. Nir
and Y. Tock. Submitted for publication. March 2009. arxiv
Gaussian
belief propagation: theory and application.
By D. Bickson.
Ph.D. Thesis, submitted to the senate
of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, October 2008. arxiv
Gaussian
belief propagation for solving systems of linear equations: theory and
application.
By O. Shental, D. Bickson,
P.H. Siegel, J. K. Wolf and D. Dolev.
Submitted to IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, October 2008. arxiv
Self-sabilzing
numerical iterative computation
By E.N. Hoch, D. Bickson
and D. Dolev, In 10th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security
of Distributed Systems (SSS ‘08). arxiv
Distributed
Kalman filter via Gaussian belief propagation.
By D. Bickson, O. Shental, and D. Dolev, In the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication,
Control and Computing, Allerton House,
Polynomial
linear programming with Gaussian belief propagation.
By D. Bickson, Y. Tock, O.
Shental, and D. Dolev, In the 46th Annual Allerton Conference on
Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton House,
Secure
Multi-party Peer-to-Peer Numerical Computation.
By D. Bickson, D. Dolev, G.
Bezman and B. Pinkas. In the 8th IEEE Peer-to-Peer computing, Sept.
2008,
A
Gaussian Belief Propagation Solver for Large Scale Support Vector Machines.
By D. Bickson, D. Dolev and
E. Yom-Tov. In the 5th European Complex Systems Conference,
Gaussian
belief propagation solver for systems of linear equations.
By O. Shental, D. Bickson,
P. H. Siegel, J. K. Wolf, and D. Dolev, IEEE Int. Symp. on
Inform. Theory (ISIT),
Gaussian
belief propagation based multiuser detection.
By D. Bickson, O. Shental,
P. H. Siegel, J. K. Wolf, and D. Dolev, IEEE Int. Symp. on Inform.
Theory (ISIT),
A
message-passing solver for linear systems
By
O. Shental, D. Bickson, P. H. Siegel, J. K. Wolf, and D. Dolev,
In
Proc. Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop,
A
unifying framework for rating users and data items in Peer-to-Peer and social
networks.
By Danny Bickson and Dahlia
Malkhi.
In Peer-to-Peer Networking
and Applications (PPNA) Journal, Accepted, January 2008.pdf
Efficient
Clustering for Improving Network Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks
By Tal Anker, Danny
Bickson, Danny Dolev and Bracha Hod.
In the European Wireless
Sensor Networks (EWSN
Linear Detection via
Belief Propagation
By Danny Bickson, Danny
Dolev, Ori Shental, Paul H. Siegel and Jack K. Wolf.
In the 45th Annual Allerton
Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton House,
Everlab - A production
platform for research in network experimentation and computation
By Elliot Jaffe, Danny
Bickson and Scott Kirkpatrick.
In the 21st Large
Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '07),
Peer
–to-Peer Rating
By Danny Bickson, Dahlia
Malkhi and Lidong Zhou.
In the 7th IEEE
Peer-to-Peer Computing,
BitCode:
A BitTorrent Clone using Network Coding
By Danny Bickson and Roy
Borer.
In the 7th IEEE
Peer-to-Peer Computing,
Indexing
data-oriented overlay networks using belief propagation
By Karl Aberer, Danny
Bickson, Danny Dolev, Manfred Hauswirth and Yair Weiss.
In the 7th
Workshop of distributed algorithms and data structures (WDAS 06'),
Jan. 06', SF, CA. pdf
Extended
Data Indexing in Overlay Networks using the Belief Propagation Algorithm. (Invited paper).
By Karl Aberer,
Danny Bickson, Danny Dolev, Manfred Hauswirth and Yair Weiss.
In the Peer-to-peer Data
Management in the Complex Systems Perspective Workshop (ECCS
05'), Nov 05',
The
Julia Content Distribution Network.
By Danny Bickson and Dahlia
Malkhi.
In the 2nd
Usenix Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems (WORLDS
'05), Dec. 05', SF, CA. pdf
Practical
Locality-Awareness for Large Scale Information Sharing.
By Ittai Abraham, Ankur
Badola, Danny Bickson, Dahlia Malkhi, Sharad Maloo and Saar Ron.
The 4th Annual International Workshop on Peer-To-Peer Systems (IPTPS '05).
pdf
Efficient
Large Scale Content Distribution
By D. Bickson, D. Malkhi
and D. Rabinowitz
In the 6th Workshop on
Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS '04),
Technical Reports:
Solving
Large Scale Kernel Ridge Regression using A Gaussian Belief Propagation Solver
(poster)
By Danny Bickson,
Danny Dolev and Elad Yom-Tov
In NIPS Workshop on
Efficient Machine Learning, 2007.pdf
A
Gaussian Belief Propagation for Large Scale Support Vector Machines
By Danny Bickson, Danny
Dolev and Elad Yom-Tov.
Efficient
Large Scale Content Distribution
By Danny Bickson, Danny
Dolev and Yair Weiss.
Presented at the Networks
and Algorithms Workshop, June 2005, Finland. pdf
Modified
Belief Propagation for Energy Saving in Wireless and Sensor Networks.
By Danny Bickson, Danny
Dolev and Yair Weiss.
The
eMule Protocol Speficiation.
By Yoram
Kulbak and Danny Bickson.
Locality-Aware
Content Distribution.
By Danny Bickson and Dahlia
Malkhi.
Leibniz Center TR 2004-52,
A Survey of Privacy in Peer-to-Peer
Networks
By D. Bickson, D. Malkhi
Technical report
TR-2003-67,
Professional Activities
Committee
of 9th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing,
2009.
Committee
of 9th
IEEE Global Internet Symposium, 2006.
Organizing
committee of the 2nd
PlanetLab European Meetings, 2005.
Reviewer
for FC04, WORLDS 04, WDAS 04, ICDCS 05, PODC 05, IPTPS 05, GI06, DSN06, P2P06,
J-SAC P2P special issue 2007, ICSCS 07, P2P 07, JTOM 07, JCN 08, IEEE TOSN
Awards:
Leibniz
Fellowship for the Academic year 2005.
Garusso
Prize for the Academic year 2004.
Patents:
SD2008-159 - NEW MESSAGE PASSING ALGORITHM (with
Ori Shental, Danny Dolev)
SD2008-159 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINEAR
PROCESSING OF AN INPUT USING GAUSSIAN BELIEF PROPAGATION
US Patent Application Number: 12/569954 DISTRIBUTED PERFORMANCE
MONITORING IN SOFT REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (with Konstantin Shagin and
Gidon
Gershinsky)
Teaching:
2007/8
–Instructor of the Digital Communications in the Modern World
course, T.A. in Security Course, The Hebrew University.
2006/7 – Instructor
of the advanced course in network security, IDC Herzlia.
2006/7
–Instructor of the Digital Communications in the Modern World
course, T.A. in Security Course, The Hebrew University.
2005/6
–Instructor of the Digital Communications in the Modern World
course, T.A. in Security Course, The Hebrew University.
2005/6 –
TA of the Introduction to CS course, T.A. in Security Course, Hadassah Academic
College.
2004/5
–Instructor of the Digital Communications in the Modern World
course, T.A. in Security Course, The Hebrew University.
2004/5
–Instructor and TA of the Introduction to CS 2 course, T.A. in Security Course,
Communication Lab course, Hadassah Academic Collage.
2003/4
–T.A. in Security Course, Operating Systems course, The Hebrew University.
2003/4
–T.A. in Security Course, Communication Lab course, Hadassah Academic Collage.
2002/3
–T.A. in Parallel and Network Computation (PNC) course, Security course, The
Hebrew University.
2002/3
–Instructor of Digital Design Course. T.A. in PNC course, Communication Lab
course, Security Course, Hadassah Academic Collage.
2001/2
–T.A. in PNC Course, Middleware Systems Course, Grader in Communication Course,
Security Course , The
2001/2
–Instructor of Communication Course, Hadassah Academic Collage.
2000/1–
Grader in Communication Course, PNC Course, The
Professional Experience:
2008-9 Postdoctoral position in IBM Haifa
Research Lab
2006 –
Intern in Microsoft research,
2002 –
Current – System Administrator of the DANSS
lab.
2002 –
Software Engineer at Ultrasis (R.I.P - University project of 500 hours).
2001 –
Software Engineer at Omnisky.
(R.I.P)
2000 –
Software Engineer at IPhighway. (R.I.P)
1999 –
Software Engineer at Mainsoft.
1998 – Student
Position at INTEL
Fab 8.
1996 –
1997 PC Technician.
PICS
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WDAS 2004 conference 8-9 July 2004, EPFL, |
Algorithmique distribuée |
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Photo taken in EPFL Lausanne by Prof.
Manolis Koubarakis |
Photo taken in Nice by Yaron Weinsberg. |
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Evergrow SP3 meeting, Kista, Sweden, August 2004 |
Evergrow SP 3 meeting,
Louvain – la –Neuve, Belgium, June 2004 |
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Photo taken by Sameh El-Ansary (SICS) |
Photo taken in Lueven by Prof. Danny
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Evergrow SP3 content
distribution meeting, EPFL,
Switzerland, March 2005 |
Networks and
Algorithms Workshop, Hesinki,
Finland, June 2005 |
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Photo taken by Dr. Stephan Boukong (Aston) |
Photo taken in Helisnki by Prof. Danny
Dolev. |
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Evergrow SP3 meeting, EPFL, Switzerland, July 2005 |
2nd
European PlanetLab meeting, EPFL,
Switzerland, October 2005 |
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Photo taken in Laussane by Prof. Danny
Dolev. |
Photo taken in Luzern by Assaf Ben David |
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P2P Data Management in
the Complex Systems Perspective, ECCS 05' Workshop, Paris, Nov. 2005 |
Evergrow 2nd
Workshop, Sastaholm, Sweden, Dec. 2005 |
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Photo taken by my lovely wife, Ravit |
Photo taken by Elliot Jaffe in Sastaholm |
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WDAS 2006, CA, Jan 2006 |
WDAS 2006, CA, Jan 2006 |
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Photo taken by prof. Thomas Schwartz in
Santa Clara, CA |
Photo taken by Yaniv Hen, NY |
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Evergrow SP3+4
meeting, ISI, Torino, Jan 2006 |
Evergrow EC Review, University of Rome, Italy, March 2006 |
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Photo taken by Coby Fernandess in Torino,
Italy |
Photo taken by Elliot Jaffe, Italy |
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Intern In Microsoft
Research, Mountain View, CA, June 2006 |
Intern In Microsoft
Research, Mountain View, CA, July 2006 |
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Photo taken by my wife Ravit in Monterey,
CA |
Photo taken by my wife Ravit in Yosemite,
CA |
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Intern In Microsoft
Research, Mountain View, CA, Aug 2006 |
Evergrow meetings,
Rome, December 2006. |
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Photo taken by my wife Ravit in San Jose,
CA |
Photo taken by Elliot Jaffe |
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Evergrow EU review,
Zurich, March 2007. |
Evergrow meetings,
Stockholm, March 2007. |
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Photo taken by Elliot Jaffe |
Photo taken by Prof. Scott Kirkpatrick |
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Evergrow EU meetings,
Athens, June 2007. |
7th IEEE
Peer-to-peer Computing, Galway, Ireland, Sept. 2007. |
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Photo taken by Udi Weinsberg |
Photo taken by Boriss Meijas, UCL |
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Evergrow EU meetings,
Torino, December 2007. |
HUMINET meeting,
Frankfurt, February 2008. |
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Photo taken by Udi Weinsberg |
Photo taken By Lev Muchnik |
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Evergrow EU final
review, Torino, March 2008. |
NORDITA Physdis
workshop, Stockholm, May 2008. |
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Photo taken by Udi Weinsberg |
Photo taken by Udi Weinsberg |
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Vacation in |
ISIT 2008 conference,
Toronto, Canada, July 2008. |
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Photo taken by my 5 years old (!) son Itay |
Photo taken by John Doe |
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Visit to |
P2P 2008 conference,
Aachen, Germany, September 2008. |
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Photo taken by Dr. Jason K. Johnson |
Photo taken by Boriss Meijas |
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CMU visit, February
2009. |
46th
Allerton conference, Allerton House, Montecillo |
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Photo taken by John Doe |
Photo taken by John Doe |
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IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, |
Berkeley visit,
February 2009. |
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Photo taken by John Doe |
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Simmon’s farm, Pennsylvania,
October 2009 |
47th
Allerton conference, Allerton House, Montecillo Illinois, September 2009. |
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Photo taken by my son, Dor |
Photo taken by Dror Baron |
