Web: http://www.rlab.cs.utep.edu/~freudent
Email: efreudenthal@utep.edu
Office: Computer Science Dept., Univ.
Cell: (917) 279-6208
EDUCATION
May 2003: Ph.D., Computer
Science, Courant Institute, New York University
Advisor: Allan Gottlieb
Title: Comparing and Improving Centralized
and Distributed Techniques for Coordinating Massively Parallel Shared-Memory
Systems
May 1985: B.A., Computer Science, New
York University
EMPLOYMENT
2004-present Assistant Professor,
1986-2004: Associate Research Scientist, Courant
Institute,
2001-2004: Project lead for NYU Parallel and Distributed Systems Group's Distributed Sanctuaries project investigating infrastructure for dynamic deployment of programs and establishment of secure communication channels in partially trusted environments. Co-creator of “Coral-CDN” self-organizing proxy that serves 20M requests from hundreds of Planet-lab hosts daily.
1996-2001: Co-PI of NYU Recognition Lab, which participated in DARPA's MSTAR automatic target recognition program. Areas of research include target hypothesis generation, signature comparison, hypothesis refinement, and scalable deployment.
1986-1997: Assistant Research Scientist, Ultracomputer Research Laboratory. Contributions include algorithms for inter-process coordination, and the analysis and improvement of combining networks.
1985-1986: Proprietor of small engineering firm. Designed, programmed and manufactured digital image processing systems for biological research.
1983-1985: System Design
Engineer, Logic Systems of
Prior experience includes circuit and system design for broadcasting and electronic instrumentation.
RESEARCH GRANTS and CONTRACTS
A Practical
Sensing and Image Dissemination System for Pervasive Monitoring CDSR and
WSMR / 1/2008
The
Adaptation and Dissemination of a Programming-Centric Computer Literacy Course
at HSIs, NSF / CCLI Phase II, 9/2007
Investigation of Technical Challenges Related
to the Proposed WSMR Playbox, WSMR 9/2007
Faculty gift award: Texas Instruments
Corporation, June 2007
Constraint Validation of RBAC Policy, ARL 8/2005 (1.5yr) $80,247
AAI-UTEP Homeland
Security Concept of Operation Study.
AAI Corporation, October 2005.
Constraint Validation of
RBAC Policy, ARL, September 2005
DAyOS: Dynamic Adaptability for Online Systems. IBM Faculty Award, January, 2005
Stable Trust Management through Quantified Reliability, with Vijay Karamcheti, DARPA IPTO Seedling, March 2003.
Geometric Hashing for Target Recognition in SAR, with Ben Goldberg. DARPA SPO/AFRL, through SAIC, September 2000.
Analysis of ATR Problem Complexity and Scalability, with Ben Goldberg of NYU, John Wissinger and Bill Irving of Alphatech, and Tom Ryan of SAIC. This first phase STTR was granted by AFRL in the fall of 1998, Second phase was granted in the fall of 1999.
Model-based Reasoning in a Distributed Computing Environment, with Ben Goldberg and several educational and commercial partners. DARPA SPO/AFRL, 1999-2002.
A Computational Laboratory for Automatic Target Recognition, with Ben Goldberg and Davi Gieger. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, March 1998.
JOURNAL PAPER
Steven Gutstein, Olac
Fuentes and Eric Freudenthal, Knowledge
Transfer in Deep Convolutional Neural Nets,
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (accepted for
publication).
REFERREED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Eric Freudenthal, Mary Kay Roy, Alexandria Nicole Ogrey, Sherri Terrell,
Olga Kosheleva, Pilar
Gonzalez, and Ann Gates, Work in progress – Initial Evaluation of an
Introductory Course in Programming that Assists in Career Choices, Proc.
Frontiers in Education, October 2008.
Eric Freudenthal, Brian Carter, Frederick Kautz,
and Alexandria Ogrey, Work in Progress – Combined Introduction of C and Assembly Language With a Focus on
Reduction of High Level Language Constructs, Proc. Frontiers of Education,
October 2008.
Eric Freudenthal and Ann
Q. Gates, Media Exposed: A Highly
Motivational Introductory Programming Course That Assists Students with Career
Choices, Proc, Texas ACET, October 2008.
Eric
Freudenthal and Brian Carter, Integrating
the Teaching of C and Assembly Language, Proc. Texas ACET, October 2008.
Ryan Spring and Eric Freudenthal, Sloth-NFS and the Possibility of Using Fuzzy
Control to Optimize Cache Management, Proc. NAFIPS, June 2008.
Eric Freudenthal,
Virgilio Gonzalez, Brian A. Carter, An Anti-Entropy Protocol Suitable For
Managing Data Deletion in an Epidemic Data Transmission System, Proc. 24th
Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, April, 2008.
Eric Freudenthal, Brian
Carter, Frederick Kautz, Alexandria Ogrey, Robert Preston and Arthur Walton , Integration of C into an Introductory Course
in Machine Organization, Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, June 2008.
Eric Freudenthal, Pilar Gonzalez, Olga Kosheleva, Mary Kay Roy, and Ann Q. Gates,A Creatively Engaging Introductory Course in Computer Science that Motiavates Future Study and and Assists with Career Choices at a Minority Serving Institution, Proc. ASEE Annual Conference, June 2008.
Steven Gutstein, Olac
Fuentes and Eric Freudenthal, The Utility of Knowledge
Transfer for Noisy Data, Proceedings of FLAIRS-08 Conference, Coconut
Grove, Florida, May 2008.
Eric Freudenthal, David Herrera, Frederick Kautz,
Carlos Natividad, Alexandria Ogrey, Justin Sipla and Leonardo Estevez, Suitability of NFC for Medical Device Communication and Power Delivery,
Proc. IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop, November 2007
Ryan Spring, Eric Freudenthal and Leonardo Estevez, Practical Techniques for Limiting Disclosure of RF-Equipped Medical Devices, Proc IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Workshop, November 2007.
Eric Freudenthal, David Herrera, Steve Gutstein, Ryan Spring, and Luc Longpre, Fern: An updatable authenticated dictionary suitable for distributed caching. Proc MMM/ACNS Sept. 2007.
Christian Servin, Martine Ceberio, Eric Freudenthal and Stefano Bistarelli, An Optimization Approach using Soft constraints for the Cascade Vulnerability Problem, Proc. North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS, IEEE),June 2007.
Steven Gutstein, Olac Fuentes and Eric Freudenthal, Knowledge Transfer in Deep Convolutional Neural Nets, Proc. FLAIRS-07 Conference, Key West, Florida, May 2007
Eric Freudenthal, Nick West, and Luc Longpre: ICE: Putting the
Freeze on Malware. South Central Information Security Symposium,
Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich, Eric Freudenthal, Martine Ceberio, Francois Modave, Neelabh
Baijal, Wei Chen, Vinod Chirayath, Gan Xiang, and J. Ivan
Vargas: Privacy, Protecting, Processing, and Measuring Loss, South Central Information Security Symposium,
Pattama Jaksurat, Eric Freudenthal, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kerinovich. Probabilistic Approach to Trust: Ideas, Algorithms, and Simulations. Proc. Tech ’04, November 2004. Also available as UTEP Computer Science Technical Report UTEP-CS-04-26a.
Michael Freedman, Eric Freudenthal, and David Mazičres, Democratizing Content Publication with CoralWeb. In Proc. NSDI 2004.
Eric Freudenthal and Vijay Karamcheti, DisCo: Middleware for Securely Deploying Decomposable Services in Partly Trusted Environments. In Proc. ICDCS, March 2004.
Eric Freudenthal, Tracy Pesin, Lawrence Port, Edward Keenan, and Vijay Karamcheti, dRBAC: Distributed Role-based Access Control for Dynamic Environments. In Proc. 22nd ICDCS, pp411-420, July 2002.
Raj Bhatnagar, Brent Siebert, Lynne Vettel, Eric Freudenthal, and David Morgenthaler, Chunk-based matching of images for ATR. In Proc. SPIE #5095, pp303-314, April 2003.
Eric Freudenthal, Eugene
Lavely, William Pierson, Mariam
Argyle, Joshua Fishman, ATR Complexity and Template Set Size. In Proc. SPIE #4382, Fall
2001, pp. 286-297. Also appears in Proc. AFRL ATR Theory Conference (
John Wissinger, Robert Ristroph, Joseph Diemunsch, William Severson, and Eric Freudenthal, MSTAR Extensible Search Engine and Model-Based Inference Toolkit. In Proc. SPIE Vol. 372, pp 554-570, 1999.
Eric Freudenthal and Robert Hummel, Methods for Scoring and Aligning Peak Features in SAR Imagery. In Proc. 47th ATRWG, 28-30 October 1997, Redstone Arsenal, AL.
Eric Freudenthal and Allan
Gottlieb, Process Coordination with Fetch & Increment. In
Proc. ASPLOS IV, Santa Clara,
California, April 1991, pp. 260-268. Expanded version available as Ultracomputer
Note 159, Courant Institute, New York University.
Eric Freudenthal,
Eric Freudenthal and
Allan Gottlieb, A New Look at the Effectiveness of Hardware Combining. ISCA Shared Memory Workshop,
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Eric Freudenthal, David
Herrera,
Eric Freudenthal and Allan Gottlieb, Comparing the Performance of Centralized and Distributed Coordination on Systems with Improved Combining Switches. NYU Computer Science Technical Report TR-2003-849, November 2003.
Eric Freudenthal, Evaluation of Inter-processor Triggers as a
Coordination Primitive for Shared-Memory MIMD Computers. The 1992 MPCI Yearly Report: Harnessing the Killer Micros, p
241-242, UCRL-ID-107022-92,
Eric Freudenthal, A Short Note on Parallel
Power-of-Two Buddy Allocation for Shared Memory MIMD Machines. Ultracomputer System Software Note 66,
Courant Institute,
Eric Freudenthal and Oliver Peze, Efficient Synchronization Algorithms Using Fetch
& Add on Multiple Bit-field Integers. Ultracomputer Note 148, Courant Institute,
PATENT
System and method for
distributing foveated data in a network, USPTO
publication
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
IEEE Computer Society
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
NYAS (New York Academy of Sciences)
Sigma Xi
AWARD
Henning Biermann Award 2004, Granted for outstanding contributions by a PhD student to education or service to the Computer Science department of the Courant Institute.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Volunteer relationship-skills teacher for youth incarcerated in Las Cruces, NM. 2006-
Vice President of the Bronx-Riverdale Society for Ethical Culture. 2002-2003
Trustee, Unirondack Summer Camp, 1996-1999.
Founding chair of adult education program at the First Unitarian Society of Brooklyn, 1993-1996. Administered program, mentored new workshop leaders, and taught.
Trustee and Membership Chair of the