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 Sameer Pai
Technical Advisor




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      Sameer Pai is a Technical Advisor in Ropes & Gray's Intellectual Property Group. He joined the firm in 2008.

      Professional Experience

      Prior to joining Ropes and Gray, Sameer attended Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering while conducting research on wireless sensor networks and public policy concerning information privacy. During this time, Sameer was an exchange scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked in the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the National Science Foundation Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies (TRUST), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center.
        
      Sameer also was a Researcher and Technical Consultant for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Law School. At the Samuelson Clinic, he studied the confluence of social, legal, technical and design issues in the public space deployment of wireless sensor networking technology. Sameer helped advise the City of San Francisco on the effective use of public video surveillance with due consideration of privacy. He also conducted on-site audits of public video surveillance programs in some of the nation’s largest cities. Prior to these roles, Sameer was employed as a Software Engineer in the Personal Communications Sector at Motorola Inc.

      Honors & Awards

      • International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) & KPMG Award (2007)


      Publications

      • “An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of San Francisco's Community Safety Cameras,” (co-authored with Jen King, Deirdre Mulligan, Steven Raphael, Andrew McDiarmid, Steve McCarty, and Chris Meyer) September, 2008.
      • S. Pai, M. Meingast, T. Roosta, S. Bermudez, S. B. Wicker, D. K. Mulligan, S. S. Sastry, “Transactional Confidentiality in Sensor Networks,” IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 28-35, July/August, 2008.
      • S. Pai "Co-Design of Sensor Networking Technology and Privacy Policy," Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2008.
      • S. Pai, T. Roosta, S. Wicker, S. S. Sastry, "Game Theoretic Modeling of Trust in Networks of Bayesian-Learning Sensors," Unpublished Manuscript, 2008.
      • T. Roosta, S. Pai, P. Chen, S. S. Sastry, S. Wicker, “The Inherent Security of Routing Protocols in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks,” In Proceedings of the 50th Annual IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM'07, Washington, DC, pp. 1273-1278, November, 2007.
      • M. Meingast, S. Pai, S. Wicker, S. S. Sastry, “Privacy in Camera Networks, A Technical Perspective,” Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report, UCB/EECS-2007-94, July, 2007.
      • P. Kuryloski, S. Pai, S. Wicker, Y. Xue, “MedSN System for In-Home Patient Monitoring: Architecture, Privacy and Security” In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems and Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability, HCMDSS-MDPnP'07, Boston, MA, pp. 189-191, June 2007.
      • S. Pai, P. Kuryloski, H. Yip, S. Yennamandra, S. Wicker, K. Boehner, and G. Gay, “Networks Of Sensors In Public Spaces: Combining Technology With Art,” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Volume 02, IEEE Computer Society AINAW’07, Washington, DC, pp. 396-402, May, 2007.
      • S. Pai, T. Roosta, S. Wicker, and S. S. Sastry, “Using Social Network Theory Towards Development of Wireless Ad Hoc Network Trust,” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Volume 01, IEEE Computer Society AINAW’07, Washington, DC, pp. 443-450, May, 2007.
      • S. Pai, G. Gay, S. Wicker, K. Boehner, "A Sensor Network Testbed in a Public Museum Space: Technology, Art, and the Privacy Horizon," Unpublished Manuscript, 2007.



       

      Presentations & Speeches

      • “Co-design of Sensor Networking Technology and Privacy Policy,” talk given Ithaca, NY, September 25, 2007 and May 7, 2008.
      • “Inherent Security of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,” poster presented in the NSF TRUST STC Fall Conference, October 2007, Ithaca, NY & GLOBECOM’07, Washington, DC, November, 2007.
      • “Secure Cooperative Routing in Sensor Networks,” poster presented in the NSF TRUST STC Fall Conference, Ithaca, NY, October, 2007.
      • “Using Social Network Theory Towards Development Of Wireless Ad Hoc Network Trust,” talk given at NSF TRUST STC Fall Conference, Ithaca, NY, October 11, 2007.
      • “Co-design of Sensor Networking Technology and Privacy Policy,” talk given at the IGERT Fall Seminar Meeting, Ithaca, NY, September 25, 2007.
      • “Networks Of Sensors In Public Spaces: Combining Technology With Art,” talk given at the IEEE International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (UCI’07) , Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 2007.
      • “Using Social Network Theory Towards Development Of Wireless Ad hoc Network Trust,” talk given at the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems (SSNDS'07), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 21, 2007.
      • “Preserving Privacy In Wireless Sensor Network-based Information Systems,” poster presented in the NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, March, 2007.
      • “MedSN System For In Home Patient Monitoring,” poster presented in the NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, March, 2007.
      • “Sensor Network Privacy and Security,” (with M. Meingast and T. Roosta) talk given at NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 20, 2007.
      • “Privacy in Sensor Networks: Transactional Confidentiality,” poster presented in the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium & NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, February & March, 2007.
      • “Reputation Systems For Sensor Networks: Towards Intelligent Design and Game Theoretic Analysis,” poster presented in the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium & NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, February & March 2007. 
      • “A Sensor Network Testbed in a Public Museum Space,” poster presented in the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium & NSF TRUST STC Spring Conference, Berkeley, CA, February & March, 2007.


      Memberships & Affiliations

      • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)


      Education
      • 2008, Ph.D. (Electrical and Computer Engineering (major), Applied Mathematics (minor), and Information Science (minor)), Cornell University; Cornell Graduate Fellowship; National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship
      • 2008, M.S. (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Cornell University; UC Berkeley Exchange Scholar; UC Berkeley Phi Kappa Sigma Erdelatz Memorial Prize
      • 2003, B.S. (Electrical and Computer Engineering), with Highest Honors, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Engineering; Wells Scholarship; Donald R. Knapp Scholarship; Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellowship; Eta Kappa Nu; Tau Beta Pi


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