Dina Katabi
speaker
My research spans digital health, wireless sensors, mobile computing, machine learning and computer vision.They encompass congestion control, network measurements, scalability and robustness of communication systems, differentiated services, Internet pricing, routing, content distribution, peer-to-peer systems, self-configurable and wireless networks, and network security. I have a particular interest in adapting tools from various fields of applied mathematics such as control theory, coding theory, and AI to solve problems in computer networks.
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
speaker
Anne-Marie Kermarrec (born 1970) is a French computer scientist. She is Professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), where she heads the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences. Her research concerns distributed computing, epidemic algorithms, peer-to-peer networks, and systematic support for machine learning. Previously she was director of research at INRIA in Renne. In 2015, she founded Mediego, a startup company that provides systems for real-time online content personalization.
Hui Zhang
speaker
As Conviva’s Co-founder, CTO, and Chairman of Board, Hui brings 20 years of pioneering research experience to the design and build of the company’s media control platform. As a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Hui has established himself as one of the world’s leading authorities on Internet Quality of Service (QoS), video streaming, network control, and Internet architecture.
Hui is credited with teaching and mentoring many computer network researchers who are now in industry (Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft) and academia (University of California, Berkeley, Rice, Purdue). In particular, he supervised Ion Stoica’s 2001 award-winning Ph.D. dissertation on Internet QoS. In addition, his End System Multicast (ESM) research group at CMU pioneered the overlay multicast architecture and developed the world’s first peer-to-peer live streaming system. His papers have thrice won Test of Time Awards from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Most recently, he won in 2022 for his 2011 paper detailing the direct connection between video quality and user engagement.Prior he won the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Awards in 2011 for his paper on End System Multicast (ESM) and its significant impact on research, methodology, application, and transfer in the last decade. He won again in 2015 for his 2005 4D research project which advocated the network control architecture that separates control logic from data devices, and was the precursor to the Software Defined Networks (SDN) initiative.
Hui was elected to be a Fellow of ACM in 2006 and received the Alfred Sloan Fellowship in 2000. He received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and held the Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science at CMU from 1998 to 2001. Prior to co-founding Conviva, Hui served as Chief Technology Officer of Turin Networks from 2000 to 2003.
Guilherme Senges
speaker
Graduated in Computer and Information Engineering from UFRJ, with a master’s degree in Systems and Computer Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ, he has extensive experience in creating tools for diagnosing the quality of broadband service in Brazil.
Christophe Diot
speaker
Christophe Diot received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INP Grenoble in 1991. Diot pioneered diffserv, single source multicast, epidemic communication, peer-to-peer online games, and most importantly Internet measurements. After INRIA (years 93-98 in Sophia Antipolis), Diot spent his career in industry, building R&D labs at Sprint (Bay area), INTEL Research (Cambridge), and Technicolor (Paris and Palo Alto). He was the Chief Scientist at Technicolor between 2009 and 2015. He helped launch Safran Analytics as their CTO before joining GOOGLE in june 2018 as Principal Engineer in the Network Architecture team. At GOOGLE, Diot deals with telemetry at scale in the cloud infrastructure. Since January 2020, Diot is the Technical Lead of the Network Analytics team in the Google Global Networks organization. Diot has around 40 patents and more than 300 publications in major conferences and journals. He is an ACM fellow.
Edmundo de Souza e Silva
organizer
Edmundo de Souza e Silva received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.
Edmundo was a visiting professor/researcher at renowned universities and research centers. He has served as co-chair of the Technical Program Committee of major international conferences including IEEE/Globecom’1999, ITC’2001, ACM/Sigmetrics’2002 and IEEE/Infocom 2009. Edmundo was elected on two terms to the ACM/SIGMETRICS Board of Directors (2001-2005), and was Chair of the IFIP WG 7.3 for the 2008-2014 terms. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Services and Applications (Springer) and the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems.
Throughout his career, Edmundo has received several awards for his scientific contributions and essential role in the Computer Networking community in Brazil. In 2008, he was awarded the medal of the National Order of Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil.
Currently Edmundo is a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE, Systems Engineering and Computer Science Department. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering (Brazil). His areas of interest include the modeling and analysis of computer systems and communication networks, network monitoring/measurements and Machine Learning.