Vasanta Chaganti
speaker
Vasanta Chaganti is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College. Her research interests span Internet Measurement, Performance Modeling, Differential Privacy applied to Network Data, and Network Security.
Ray Ware
speaker
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Swarthmore College where I teach systems courses. In my research, I build tools to make evaluating and understanding the Internet and networked systems easier and more accurate. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in CMU’s Computer Science Department. I completed my PhD at CMU also in CSD where I was co-advised by Professor Justine Sherry and Professor Srinivasan Seshan. My thesis was about developing a new methodology for determining if a new congestion control algorithm is safe to deploy in the Internet today. I earned my M.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst where I worked with Professor Charles Weems in the Architecture and Language Implementation Group. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from The State University of New York at New Paltz. Prior to CMU, I was Associate Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Cyber Analytics and Decision Systems Group. My dissertation won the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In addition, I was a Facebook Emerging Scholar, a two-time receipient of the National GEM Consortium Fellowship and was named one of SUNY New Paltz’s 40 under Forty Alumni in 2017.
Matthew Caesar
organizer
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UIUC. I am also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an Affiliate Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences, and a member of the Information Trust Institute. I am also Chief Science Officer of Veriflow and I serve as the Director of Education for ACM SIGCOMM. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
My research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of networked and distributed systems, with an emphasis on network virtualization, routing, network algorithms, systems security, and cloud services. I like taking a multi-pronged approach to system design, building systems that work well in practice but are grounded in strong theoretical principles. My recent work involves network security, network verification, and Internet of Things.