Janus Varmarken

Education

Advisor: Professor Athina Markopoulou
Awarded the Networked Systems Fellowship
My research was on network fingerprints, and on how smart home devices, smart TVs in particular, affect user privacy.

Publications

J. Varmarken, J. Al Aaraj, R. Trimananda, A. Markopoulou, "FingerprinTV: Fingerprinting Smart TV Apps", in Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2022, Issue 3. July 2022, Sydney, Australia.
J. Varmarken, H. Le, A. Shuba, A. Markopoulou, Z. Shafiq, "The TV is Smart and Full of Trackers: Measuring Smart TV Advertising and Tracking", in Proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2020, Issue 2. July 2020, Online.
R. Trimananda, J. Varmarken, A. Markopoulou, B. Demsky, "Packet-Level Signatures for Smart Home Devices", in Proceedings of the 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). February 2020, San Diego, CA.
A. Le, J. Varmarken, S. Langhoff, A. Shuba, M. Gjoka, A. Markopoulou, "AntMonitor: A System for Monitoring from Mobile Devices", in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Crowdsharing of Big Internet Data (C2BID), London, UK, Aug. 17, 2015.

Work Experience

Responsible for ETL pipelines for integrations with third parties such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access.

Developed pipelines for retrieving data from third parties and joining it with the Mist platform’s network data.

Piloted the integration of Zoom in the Mist platform, which is now used by hundreds of enterprise customers.
Designed and implemented a service that translates IP unicast traffic to IP multicast traffic. This service was developed for IETF's TreeDN project and has been made open source.

Education