Sanjay G. Rao
speaker
Sanjay G. Rao is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he leads the Internet Systems Laboratory. His research spans network
synthesis/design/verification, and Internet video distribution. He received a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the Ph.D from the
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a Visiting Researcher at Google, AT&T Research and Princeton University. He is a recipient of the NSF Career award, has won
the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award for his work on End System Multicast (peer-to-peer video streaming), and is an ACM Distinguished Member. He has served on the Technical Program Committees
of conferences including ACM Sigcomm, Usenix NSDI, and ACM Sigmetrics, has served as the Area technical program chair of IEEE Infocom, and has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking.
Bruno Ribeiro
speaker
Bruno Robeiro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University and a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University between 2023-2024. Before joining
Purdue, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Ribeiro has made significant contributions in the
intersection between geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, out-of-distribution robustness, and machine learning. Ribeiro received an NSF CAREER award in 2020, an Amazon Research Award
in 2022, and multiple best paper awards.
Edmundo de Souza e Silva
organizer
Edmundo de Souza e Silva received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering, both from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984. He heads the Laboratory for Modeling Analysis and Development of Networks and Computing Systems at UFRJ. Edmundo was a visiting professor/researcher at renowned universities and research centers including the IBM T.J. Watson research Center, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, UCLA Department of Computer Science, Computer Science Department at USC, Politecnico di Torino, Chinese University of Hong Kong, IRISA/INRIA-Rennes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was co-Chair of the Technical Program Committee of major international and brazilian conferences of the IEEE, ACM and IFIP societies, the the Brazilian Computer Society including the Third International Conference on Data Communication Systems and their Performance (1987, sponsored by IFIP and IEEE Communications), IEEE/Globecom’1999, ITC’2001, ACM/Sigmetrics’2002, IEEE/IEEE/Infocom’2009. Edmundo was elected for the ACM/SIGMETRICS Board of Directors for 2 terms (2001-2005), and was Chair of the IFIP W.G. 7.3 from Jan/2008-Jul/2014 (see also IFIP W.G. 7.3).
He has been involved with international cooperative research programs sponsored by NSF (USA) and CNPq (Brazil) and also with INRIA (France). He was a member of the Advisory Board of CNPq (National Research Council) in 1991/1994, and 1998/2000. During 1995/1998 he was a member of the Graduate Council of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2000 he has been the coordinator of the (course in Computer Systems Technologies of the distance learning initiative (CEDERJ ) of the state of Rio de Janeiro. He was also vice-chair of the Computer Science Advisory Board of CAPES (Graduate Council of the Ministry of Education) during 2002-2004 and the committee chair during the 2008-2010. His research interests include modeling and analysis of computer systems, computer networks and machine learning. He has taught many courses (graduate and undergraduate) in these areas.
Currently he is a full professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE, Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department. He is also a “Researcher I-A” of the Brazilian National Research Council, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (Brazil). In 2008, he received the medal of the National Order of Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil.
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.