We're stuck in a world of data silos; my photos are spread across dozens of apps and most services try to capture my data instead of working together. Bitcoin and the blockchain's novel form of consensus might inspire us to think about new ways of running databases in a more decentralized manner. With these systems, we're pushed to think about issues like interoperability, transparency, and open access when we start to design our applications, making it easier to work on data across trust domains.
Neha is a fifth year PhD student in PDOS, the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group
at MIT, advised by Robert Morris. Here she has worked on W5, BFlow, a privacy-preserving browser
system, WARP, and Dixie. Neha's research interests are in protecting user data and scalable
storage systems for web applications.
Neha has 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.
