Sam Kumar
	Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
	University of California, Berkeley
	Desk: 465 Soda Hall (RISE Lab)
	E-mail: samkumar [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
	GitHub: @samkumar

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. I am co-advised by Professor David Culler and Professor Raluca Popa. I work in the Buildings, Energy, and Transportation Systems (BETS) research group in the RISE Lab in the EECS Department. My research interests are in Systems, Networks, and Security.

I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate student, I worked in the Software-Defined Buildings (SDB) research group, which was the predecessor to BETS.

Teaching

• Instructor for CS 162: Operating Systems and System Programming, Summer 2020
• Head GSI (Head Teaching Assistant) for CS 162: Operating Systems and System Programming, Fall 2019

Publications

2020

• Performant TCP for Low-Power Wireless Networks.
  Sam Kumar, Michael P Andersen, Hyung-Sin Kim, and David E. Culler.
  17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2020).

• Ghostor: Toward a Secure Data-Sharing System from Decentralized Trust.
  (*Co-primary authors) *Yuncong Hu, *Sam Kumar, and Raluca Ada Popa.
  17th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2020).

2019

• JEDI: Many-to-Many End-to-End Encryption and Key Delegation for IoT.
  Extended Version (published as Technical Report No. arXiv:1905.13369 [cs.CR])
  Sam Kumar, Yuncong Hu, Michael P Andersen, Raluca Ada Popa, and David E. Culler.
  28th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2019).

• WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework with Transitive Delegation.
  Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Gabe Fierro, John Kolb, Hyung-Sin Kim, David E. Culler, and Raluca Ada Popa.
  28th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2019).

• Thread/OpenThread: A Compromise in Low-Power Wireless Multihop Network Architecture for the Internet of Things.
  Hyung-Sin Kim, Sam Kumar, and David E. Culler.
  IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 7 (ComMag July 2019).

2018

• System Architecture Directions for Post-SoC/32-bit Networked Sensors.
  Hyung-Sin Kim, Michael P Andersen, Kaifei Chen, Sam Kumar, William J. Zhao, Kevin Ma, and David E. Culler.
  16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2018).

• Demo Abstract: Bringing Full-Scale TCP to Low-Power Networks.
  Sam Kumar, Michael P Andersen, Hyung-Sin Kim, and David E. Culler.
  16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2018).

2015

• DISTIL: Design and implementation of a scalable synchrophasor data processing system.
  Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Connor Brooks, Alexandra von Meier, and David E. Culler.
  2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2015).

• Poster Abstract: Well-connected microzones for increased building efficiency and occupant comfort.
  Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, Sam Kumar, Michael Chen, Leonard Truong, Joyce Kim, Edward A. Arens, Hui Zhang, Paul Raftery, and David E. Culler.
  2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2015).

Projects and Software

• JEDI: Joining Encryption and Delegation for IoT
  Published at USENIX Security 2019 (see above)
  Relevant GitHub repositories: JEDI Cryptography Library, JEDI Prototype Implementation

• GDPFS: The Global Data Plane File System
  CS 262A Project Report (Spring 2016)
  Relevant GitHub repositories: GDPFS Implementation, FIG Tree Library (C), FIG Tree Prototype (Java)

• Mr. Plotter: The Multiresolution Plotter (Project Page)
  Project Report (published as Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2018-85)
  Relevant GitHub repositories: Mr. Plotter Web Application, Mr. Plotter Desktop Application, Mr. Plotter QML Library