William R. Marczak

My name is Bill Marczak, and I am a computer science Ph.D student at UC Berkeley. My research interests include security, networking, distributed systems, and databases. I'm currently working with Joe Hellerstein on the BOOM project. I am also a founding member of Bahrain Watch, a monitoring and advocacy group that seeks to promote effective, accountable, and transparent governance in Bahrain through research and evidence-based activism.

I'm also collaborating with Boon Thau Loo and the NetDB group at the University of Pennsylvania on the DS² and A³ projects. Additionally, I collaborate with LogicBlox.

Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach [.pdf]
Peter Alvaro, Neil Conway, Joseph M. Hellerstein, William R. Marczak.
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Jan 2011.

SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing. [.bib | .pdf | Abstract]
William R. Marczak, Shan Shan Huang, Martin Bravenboer, Micah Sherr, Boon Thau Loo, and Molham Aref.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Jun 2010.

A³: An Extensible Platform for Application-Aware Anonymity. [.bib | .pdf | Abstract]
Micah Sherr, Andrew Mao, William R. Marczak, Wenchao Zhou, Boon Thau Loo, and Matt Blaze.
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Mar 2010.

Dedalus: Datalog in Time and Space. [.bib | .pdf | Abstract]
Peter Alvaro, William R. Marczak, Neil Conway, Joseph M. Hellerstein, David Maier, and Russell C. Sears.
Technical Report UCB/EECS-2009-173, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Dec 2009.

Declarative Reconfigurable Trust Management. [.bib | .pdf | Abstract]
William R. Marczak, David Zook, Wenchao Zhou, Molham Aref, and Boon Thau Loo.
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Jan 2009.

Programming Language Support for Loose Consistency in Distributed Systems [.pdf]
Stanford University Software Lunch, Oct 15, 2010.

SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing. [.pdf]
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Indianapolis, IN, Jun 2010.

LBTrust: Declarative Reconfigurable Trust Management. [.pdf]
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Pacific Grove, CA, Jan 2009.

Interview on BBC World News, 20 April 2012
Interview with Amy DiPierro of War News Radio, 24 March 2012
Bahrainis Demand More Than Cosmetic Reforms (by David Elkins of IPS), 23 March 2012
U.S. Urged to Leverage Security Cooperation with Bahrain (by David Elkins of IPS), 22 March 2012
Bahraini king praises progress but opponents say abuses continue (on L.A. Times Blogs), 20 March 2012

While attending high school in Bahrain, I became involved in Model United Nations, and was fortunate to attend several conferences in Bahrain, Cairo, and Dublin. I continued my involvement as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. A summary of my participation follows:

BAHMUN (Manama, Bahrain): 2005: Secretary General [ Bahrain Tribune | Gulf Daily News ]
2004: Chair (General Assembly) [ Gulf Daily News ]
2003: Sudan (General Assembly - Delegate of the Year)
2002: United Arab Emirates (Political Committee)
CACMUN (Cairo, Egypt): 2004: Chair (General Assembly) [ Picture | Picture ]
2003: Israel (General Assembly)
2002: Portugal (General Assembly)
MINIMUN (Manama, Bahrain): 2005: Secretary General [ Gulf Daily News ]
2004: Chair (General Assembly)
2003: Russian Federation
UPMUNC (Philadelphia, USA): 2008: Director of Operations
2007: Director of Operations [ UPMUNC Website ]
2006: Assistant Secretary General
SAIMUN (Dublin, Ireland): 2004: Guinea-Bissau