Win Treese Joins Institute as Associate Director

G. Winfield (Win) Treese joined the Hariri Institute as its Associate Director in October 2011, bringing a unique mix of talents and experiences, given his work in technical consulting, startups, industrial research, and academia.

Win holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986) and an S.M. in Computer Science from Harvard University (1992). Win was Chief Systems Engineer at MIT’s Project Athena, which developed many key technologies in modern computer systems, including the Kerberos network security system. Later on, he joined the Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) of Digital Equipment Corporation as a member of its research staff, working on several projects, including the design and implementation of Digital’s Internet firewall, and of AudioFile, a distributed system for network audio. In 1994, Win co-founded Open Market, one of the earliest companies building  software for Internet commerce. As Fellow and Vice President for Technology at Open Market, Win was responsible for the security architecture of Open Market’s line of e-business applications.  In 2001, Win co-founded Serissa Research, Inc. a consulting and research firm specializing in technology strategy and e-commerce application architectures for security and privacy. From 2001 to 2003, Win was a Visiting Scholar at the Edward R. Murrow Center of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In 2004, Win joined SiCortex, a  startup company that specialized in building high-performance computer systems. As its Director of Software from 2004 to 2008 and its Director of Advanced Technology until 2009, Win led the company’s software development and support for of a number of scientific applications. Since then, and prior to joining the Hariri Institute at Boston University in 2011, Win worked as a technology consultant for a number of very early-stage startups.

Win served as chair of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from its inception through the first published  standard for TLS, the Internet standard successor to SSL. He also chaired the 8th USENIX Security Symposium. Win was the editor of the regular “Putting It Together” column in the NetWorker magazine, published by the ACM. He co-authored the book “Designing Systems for Internet Commerce“,  which was widely used in both technical and non-technical courses focusing on  doing business on the Internet. Win holds seven issued US Patents covering various aspects of Web e-commerce architectures and Internet security technologies.