Ramakrishnan Sundara Raman

News

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• 23 January 2023 I had a great time interacting with the Internet Freedom Community and giving a talk at the 2023 OTF Summit in Austin, Texas

• 16 January 2023 Grateful to be receive a 2023 North Campus Deans MLK Spirit Award

• 09 January 2023 I am delighted and honored to receive the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) for my work on studying censorship devices. I was also featured on the UM CSE news page

• 06 December 2022 I presented my recent work on examining censorship devices at CoNEXT 2022. Blogposts about my work were published at OTF News and Censored Planet.

  

• 11 July 2022 Excited to start my internship with the Cloudflare research team, where I will be working on detecting traffic tampering.

• 01 July 2022 I volunteered in the Xplore Engineering outreach event organized by CSEG and had a great time leading CS workshops for kids in grades 4-7.

• 09 June 2022 I gave a talk about the Censored Planet dashboard at RightsCon 2022

  

• 25 April 2022 Had a great time at the IEEE S&P Workshops thanks to an OTF travel grant.

• 25 April 2022 Super excited to attend NDSS 2022

• 30 March 2022 It was great to give a guest lecure on Censorship and Circumvention at EECS 388

  

• 25 March 2022 I gave a talk about Censored Planet and its public data at the MIDAS 5th Annual Data for Public Good Symposium

• 18 November 2021 We uploaded a recorded version of our Censored Planet Community Webinar 2021

• 15 November 2021 I am very grateful to have been awarded the Open Technology Fund Information Controls Fellowship Award, and I am very excited to work with The Citizen Lab for the duration of my fellowship!

• 04 October 2021 We organized the Censored Planet Community Webinar 2021, where I talked about Censored Planet tools, data, and some of our new capabilities to analyze and explore data produced by the observatory.

  

• 27 August 2021 Excited to attend and serve as a session chair for the HTTPS censorship session at ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI 21)

• 10 June 2021 I attended the NextProf Engineering 2021 workshop organized by the University of Michigan

  

• 10 April 2021 I led a series of outreach events (FEMMES Connect, FEMMES Explore) for CSEG in collaboration with FEMMES University of Michigan. The events involved designing and performing activities that helped middle-school aged students learn about computer algorithms and robots.

  

• 5 April 2021 We at Censored Planet are excited to announce the release of Satellite-v2, along with documentation, analysis helpers and other information which we hope will help the community understand Censored Planet data better.

• 21 February 2021 I was honoured to give an invited talk on Censored Planet at the 2021 NDSS DNS Privacy workshop.

• 11 November 2020 I was a finalist in the 2020 Michigan CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition where I represented the Michigan Systems Lab.

  

• 10 November 2020 I am presenting our paper on Censored Planet at ACM SIGSAC CCS 2020.

• 27 October 2020 Our paper on investigating large scale HTTPS interception in Kazakhstan was nominated for the best paper award at ACM IMC 2020.

• 27 October 2020 I attended ACM IMC 2020 where I presented our paper on investigating large scale HTTPS interception in Kazakhstan.

• 11 August 2020 I attended FOCI 2020 and Usenix Security 2020 funded by the student grant.

• 26 June 2020 I gave a live-streamed talk about the Censored Planet Observatory at the OONI Internet Measurement Village.

• 24 June 2020 I became a PhD candidate! 🎉

• 24 February 2020 My first first-author research paper studying the proliferation of network censorship filters in the world. 🎉

  

• 6 November 2019 Excited to announce a research paper studying information control in depth in Russia.

  

• 29 October 2019 OONI released a blog post on the blocking of abortion rights websites on the web, to which I contributed using data from the Censored Planet Observatory.

  

• 31 July 2019 I attended and hosted a session in the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2019 in Toronto, Canada facilitated by Citizen Labs travel grant.

• 23 July 2019 I led an investigation into the interception of HTTPS connections of Internet users in Kazakhstan. A blog post about our work is here: https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan

  

• 20 May 2019 I attended IEEE S&P 2019 in San Fransisco, California

• 13 May 2019 I attended the Midwest Security Workshop 7 in Chicago, Illinois

• 14 August 2018 I gave a Lightining Talk about the Censored Planet Observatory at FOCI 2018.