Bio


Mazieres investigates ways to improve the security of operating systems, file systems, and distributed systems. In addition, he has worked on large-scale peer-to-peer systems and e-mail privacy.

Academic Appointments


Honors & Awards


  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Research Foundation (2002)
  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2001)
  • MIT George R. Sprowls award for best thesis in computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000)

Professional Education


  • PhD, MIT, Computer Science (2000)

2024-25 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • Shinjuku: Preemptive Scheduling for mu second-scale Tail Latency Kaffes, K., Chong, T., Humphries, J., Belay, A., Mazieres, D., Kozyrakis, C., USENIX Assoc USENIX ASSOC. 2019: 345–59
  • Towards Practical Default-On Multi-Core Record/Replay ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Mashtizadeh, A. J., Garfinkel, T., Terei, D., Mazieres, D., Rosenblum, M. 2017; 52 (4): 693-708
  • Flexible dynamic information flow control in the presence of exceptions JOURNAL OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING Stefan, D., Mazieres, D., Mitchell, J. C., Russo, A. 2017; 27
  • The Case For Secure Delegation Kogan, D., Stern, H., Tolbert, A., Mazieres, D., Winstein, K., Assoc Comp Machinery ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2017: 15–21
  • Hails: Protecting data privacy in untrusted web applications JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SECURITY Giffin, D., Levy, A., Stefan, D., Terei, D., Mazieres, D., Mitchell, J., Russo, A. 2017; 25 (4-5): 427–61

    View details for DOI 10.3233/JCS-15801

    View details for Web of Science ID 000405374600004

  • Building Secure Systems with LIO (Demo) ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Stefan, D., Levy, A., Russo, A., Mazieres, D. 2014; 49 (12): 93-94
  • Millions of Little Minions: Using Packets for Low Latency Network Programming and Visibility SIGCOMM Conference Jeyakumar, V., Alizadeh, M., Geng, Y., Kim, C., Mazieres, D. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2014: 3–14
  • A Brief Overview of the NEBULA Future Internet Architecture ACM SIGCOMM COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Anderson, T., Birman, K., Broberg, R., Caesar, M., Comer, D., Cotton, C., Freedman, M. J., Haeberlen, A., Ives, Z. G., Krishnamurthy, A., Lehr, W., Loo, B. T., Mazieres, D., Nicolosi, A., Smith, J. M., Stoica, I., van Renesse, R., Walfish, M., Weatherspoon, H., Yoo, C. S. 2014; 44 (3): 81-86
  • Dynamic Space Limits for Haskell 35th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) Yang, E. Z., Mazieres, D. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2014: 588–98
  • Toward principled browser security. Yang, Edward, Z., Stefan, D., Mitchell, J., Mazières, D., Marchenko, P., Karp, B. 2013
  • Replication, History, and Grafting in the Ori File System. Mashtizadeh, A. J., Bittau, A., Huang, Y. F., Mazières, D. 2013
  • EyeQ: Practical network performance isolation at the edge. Jeyakumar, V., Alizadeh, M., Mazières, D., Prabhakar, B., Kim, C., Greenberg, A. 2013
  • Eliminating Cache-Based Timing Attacks with Instruction-Based Scheduling. Stefan, D., Buiras, P., Yang, Edward, Z., Levy, A., Terei, D., Russo, A., Mazieres, D. 2013
  • Safe Haskell ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Terei, D., Marlow, S., Jones, S. P., Mazieres, D. 2012; 47 (12): 137-148
  • Addressing Covert Termination and Timing Channels in Concurrent Information Flow Systems ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Stefan, D., Russo, A., Buiras, P., Levy, A., Mitchell, J. C., Mazieres, D. 2012; 47 (9): 201-213
  • Disjunction Category Labels 16th Nordic Conference on Secure IT-Systems (NordSec) Stefan, D., Russo, A., Mazieres, D., Mitchell, J. C. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. 2012: 223–239
  • Where is the debugger for my Software-Defined Network? Handigol, N., Heller, B., Jeyakumar, V., Mazières, D., McKeown, N. 2012
  • Hails: Protecting data privacy in untrusted web applications. Giffin, Daniel, B., Levy, A., Stefan, D., Terei, D., Mazières, D., Mitchell, J. 2012
  • Dune: Safe user-level access to privileged CPU features. Belay, A., Bittau, A., Mashtizadeh, A., Terei, D., Mazières, D., Kozyrakis, C. 2012
  • EyeQ: Practical Network Performance Isolation for the Multi-tenant Cloud. Jeyakumar, V., Alizadeh, M., Mazières, D., Prabhakar, B., Kim, C. 2012
  • Flexible Dynamic Information Flow Control in Haskell ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Stefan, D., Russo, A., Mitchell, J. C., Mazieres, D. 2011; 46 (12): 95-106
  • Making Information Flow Explicit in HiStar COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Zeldovich, N., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Kohler, E., Mazieres, D. 2011; 54 (11): 93-101
  • The Case for RAMCloud COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Ousterhout, J., Agrawal, P., Erickson, D., Kozyrakis, C., Leverich, J., Mazieres, D., Mitra, S., Narayanan, A., Ongaro, D., Parulkar, G., Rosenblum, M., Rumble, S. M., Stratmann, E., Stutsman, R. 2011; 54 (7): 121-130
  • Energy Management in Mobile Devices with the Cinder Operating System 6th ACM EuroSys Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2011) Roy, A., Rumble, S. M., Stutsman, R., Levis, P., Mazieres, D., Zeldovich, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2011: 139–152
  • Disjunction category labels. Stefan, D., Russo, A., Mazières, D., Mitchell, John, C. 2011
  • Verifying and enforcing network paths with ICING. Naous, J., Walfish, M., Nicolosi, A., Mazières, D., Miller, M., Seehra, A. 2011
  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar. Communications of the ACM Zeldovich, N., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Kohler, E., Mazières, D. 2011; 11 (54): 93-101
  • Apprehending Joule Thieves with Cinder COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW Rumble, S. M., Stutsman, R., Levis, P., Mazieres, D., Zeldovich, N. 2010; 40 (1): 106-111
  • Defining and Enforcing Transit Policies in a Future Internet. Technical Report TR-10-07 Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin Naous, J., Seehra, A., Walfish, M., Mazières, D., Nicolosi, A., Shenker, S. 2010
  • The case for ubiquitous transport-level encryption. Bittau, A., Hamburg, M., Handley, M., Mazières, D., Boneh, D. 2010
  • Apprehending Joule Thieves with Cinder 1st ACM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications for Mobile Handhelds Rumble, S. M., Stutsman, R., Levis, P., Mazieres, D., Zeldovich, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009: 49–54
  • Apprehending Joule Thieves with Cinder. Rumble, Stephen, M., Stutsman, R., Levis, P., Mazières, D., Zeldovich, N. 2009
  • A Policy Framework for the Future Internet. Seehra, A., Naous, J., Walfish, M., Mazières, D., Nicolosi, A., Shenker, S. 2009
  • Delegating Network Security with More Information 1st Workshop Research on Enterprise Networking Naous, J., Stutsman, R., Mazieres, D., McKeown, N., Zeldovich, N. ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2009: 19–26
  • Securing distributed systems with information flow control. Zeldovich, N., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Mazières, D. 2008
  • Labels and event processes in the Asbestos operating system ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS Vandebogart, S., Efstathopoulos, P., Kohler, E., Krohn, M., Frey, C., Ziegler, D., Kaashoek, F., Morris, R., Mazieres, D. 2007; 25 (4)
  • Beyond One-third Faulty Replicas in Byzantine Fault Tolerant Systems. Li, J., Mazières, D. 2007
  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Zeldovich, N., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Kohler, E., Mazieres, D. USENIX ASSOC. 2006: 263–278
  • RE: Reliable email. Garriss, S., Kaminsky, M., Freedman, Michael, J., Karp, B., Mazières, D., Yu, H. 2006
  • OASIS: Anycast for any service. Freedman, Michael, J., Lakshminarayanan, K., Mazières, D. 2006
  • Making information flow explicit in HiStar. Zeldovich, N., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Kohler, E., Mazières, D. 2006
  • Group therapy for systems: Using link attestations to manage failures. Freedman, Michael, J., Stoica, I., Mazières, D., Shenker, S. 2006
  • Labels and event processes in the Asbestos operating system. VanDeBogart, S., Efstathopoulos, P., Kohler, E., Krohn, M., Frey, C., Ziegler, D., Mazieres, D. 2005
  • Shark: Scaling file servers via cooperative caching. Annapureddy, S., Freedman, Michael, J., Mazières, D. 2005
  • Make Least Privilege a Right (Not a Privilege). Krohn, M., Efstathopoulos, P., Frey, C., Kaashoek, F., Kohler, E., Mazières, D. 2005
  • Blocking unwanted mail with mail avenger. Virus Bulletin Mazières, D. 2005: S2-S4
  • REX: Secure, extensible remote execution. Kaminsky, M., Peterson, E., Giffin, Daniel, B., Fu, K., Mazières, D., Kaashoek, M., Frans 2004
  • Secure Untrusted Data Repository (SUNDR). Li, J., Krohn, Maxwell, N., Mazières, D., Shasha, D. 2004
  • Secure acknowledgment of multicast messages in open peer-to-peer networks. Nicolosi, A., Mazières, D. 2004
  • On-the-fly verification of rateless erasure codes for efficient content distribution. Krohn, Maxwell, N., Freedman, Michael, J., Mazières, D. 2004
  • Democratizing content publication with Coral. Freedman, Michael, J., Freudenthal, E., Mazières, D. 2004
  • Sloppy hashing and self-organizing clusters. Freedman, M., Mazières, D. 2003
  • Rateless codes and big downloads. Maymounkov, P., Mazières, D. 2003
  • Decentralized user authentication in a global file system. Kaminsky, M., Savvides, G., Mazières, D., Kaashoek, M., Frans 2003
  • REX: Secure, modular remote execution through file descriptor passing. Technical Report MIT-LCSTR-884, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Kaminsky, M., Peterson, E., Fu, K., Mazières, D., Kaashoek, M., Frans 2003
  • Proactive two-party signatures for user authentication. Nicolosi, A., Krohn, M., Dodis, Y., Mazières, D. 2003
  • Multiprocessor support for event-driven programs USENIX Annual Technical Conference Zeldovich, N., Yip, A., Dabek, F., Morris, R. T., Mazieres, D., Kaashoek, F. USENIX ASSOC. 2003: 239–252
  • Using SFS for a secure network file system. In ;login: The Magazine of Usenix & Sage Fu, K., Kaminsky, M., Mazières, D. 2002; 6 (27): 6-16
  • Kademlia: A peer-to-peer information system based on the XOR metric. Maymounkov, P., Mazières, D. 2002
  • Event-driven programming for robust software. Dabek, F., Zeldovich, N., Kaashoek, M., Frans, Mazières, D., Morris, R. 2002
  • Fast and secure distributed read-only file system. In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Fu, K., Kaashoek, M., Frans, Mazières, D. 2002; 1 (20): 1-24
  • Building secure file systems out of Byzantine storage. Mazières, D., Shasha, D. 2002
  • A toolkit for user-level file systems. Mazières, D. 2001
  • Don't trust your file server. Mazières, D., Shasha, D. 2001
  • A low-bandwidth network file system. Muthitacharoen, A., Chen, B., Mazières, D. 2001
  • Tangler: A Censorship-Resistant Publishing System Based On Document Entanglements. Waldman, M., Mazières, D. 2001
  • Position Summary: Censorship Resistant Publishing Through Document Entanglements. Waldman, M., Mazières, D. 2001
  • Self-certifying file system. PhD thesis, MIT Mazières, D. 2000
  • Fast and secure distributed read-only file system. Fu, K., Kaashoek, M., Frans, Mazières, D. 2000
  • A future-adaptable password scheme. Provos, N., Mazières, D. 1999
  • Separating key management from file system security. Mazières, D., Kaminsky, M., Kaashoek, M., Frans, Witchel, E. 1999
  • Escaping the evils of centralized control with self-certifying pathnames. Mazières, D., Kaashoek, M., Frans 1998
  • The design, implementation and operation of an email pseudonym server. Mazières, D., Kaashoek, M., Frans 1998
  • Application performance and flexibility on exokernel systems. Kaashoek, M., Frans, Engler, Dawson, R., Ganger, Gregory, R., Briceño, Héctor, M., Hunt, R., Mazières, D. 1997
  • Secure applications need flexible operating systems. Mazières, D., Kaashoek, M., Frans 1997
  • Security and Decentralized Control in the SFS Global File System. Master's thesis, MIT Mazières, D. 1997
  • The Measured Performance of Personal Computer Operating Systems. In ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Chen, J., Bradley, Endo, Y., Chan, K., Mazières, D., Dias, A., Smith, M. 1996; 1 (14): 3-40
  • The Measured Performance of Personal Computer Operating Systems. Chen, J., Bradley, Endo, Y., Chan, K., Mazières, D., Dias, A., Smith, M. 1995
  • Abstract execution in a multi-tasking environment. Technical Report TR-31-94. Harvard University Mazières, D., Smith, Michel, D. 1994