Neha Narula


MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar St, G980
Cambridge, MA 02139

email: my last name at mit.edu
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About

I'm a fourth year PhD student in PDOS, the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at MIT, advised by Robert Morris. Here I've worked on W5, BFlow, a privacy-preserving browser system, WARP, and Dixie. My research interests are in protecting user data and scalable storage systems for web applications.

I worked for Google as a Software Engineer on Native Client, Blobstore, a system for efficiently storing and serving terabytes of large binary objects, and Froogle.

My blog, twitter, and facebook. I also wrote a blog entry on applying for the NSF.

 Publications

Executing Web Application Queries on a Partitioned Database. Neha Narula and Robert Morris. USENIX Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps 2012), To Appear.

Intrusion Recovery for Database-backed Web Applications. Ramesh Chandra, Taesoo Kim, Meelap Shah, Neha Narula, and Nickolai Zeldovich. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.

Privacy-Preserving Browser-Side Scripting With BFlow. Alex Yip, Neha Narula, Max Krohn, Robert Morris. In Proceedings of the ACM Eurosys Conference. Nuremberg, Germany, April 2009.

Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code. Bennet Yee, David Sehr, Gregory Dardyk, J. Bradley Chen, Robert Muth, Tavis Ormandy, Shiki Okasaka, Neha Narula, and Nicholas Fullagar. In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. Oakland, CA 2009. Best Paper Award.

Read/Write Based Fast-Path Transformation for FCFS Mutual Exclusion. Prasad Jayanti, Srdjan Petrovic, Neha Narula. In Proceedings of the Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM). Springer 2005.

Other

Designing a Toolkit for Distributed Storage in Web Applications. Neha Narula and Robert Morris. Poster at SOSP 2009. Big Sky, Montana, October 2009.