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)

Contact

  • Academic
    University - Faculty Department: Computer Science Position: Professor
    • 353 JANE STANFORD WAY
    • Room 474
    • STANFORD,  California  94305 

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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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000474428400023

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3037697.3037751

    View details for Web of Science ID 000401540000049

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S0956796816000241

    View details for Web of Science ID 000393984200001

  • The Case For Secure Delegation Kogan, D., Stern, H., Tolbert, A., Mazieres, D., Winstein, K., Assoc Comp Machinery ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2017: 15–21

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3152434.3152444

    View details for Web of Science ID 000440700800003

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2633357.2633371

    View details for Web of Science ID 000358311500011

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2619239.2626292

    View details for Web of Science ID 000350564600002

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2656877.2656889

    View details for Web of Science ID 000341236800011

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2594291.2594341

    View details for Web of Science ID 000344455800059

  • 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
  • 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
  • Safe Haskell ACM SIGPLAN NOTICES Terei, D., Marlow, S., Jones, S. P., Mazieres, D. 2012; 47 (12): 137-148

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2430532.2364524

    View details for Web of Science ID 000313911300013

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2398856.2364557

    View details for Web of Science ID 000311296000020

  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000310342000016

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2096148.2034688

    View details for Web of Science ID 000299326600009

  • Making Information Flow Explicit in HiStar COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM Zeldovich, N., Boyd-Wickizer, S., Kohler, E., Mazieres, D. 2011; 54 (11): 93-101

    View details for DOI 10.1145/2018396.2018419

    View details for Web of Science ID 000297052600026

  • 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

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1965724.1965751

    View details for Web of Science ID 000293277800033

  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000304280200010

  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000273227000016

  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000282721900009

  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000282721700003

  • 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)

    View details for DOI 10.1145/1314299.1314302

    View details for Web of Science ID 000251909000003

  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000245429800019

  • 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
  • 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

    View details for Web of Science ID 000184644400018

  • 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
  • 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
  • Position Summary: Censorship Resistant Publishing Through Document Entanglements. Waldman, M., Mazières, D. 2001
  • Don't trust your file server. Mazières, D., Shasha, D. 2001
  • A toolkit for user-level file systems. Mazières, 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
  • 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