Kuan-Yen Chou
speaker
I am a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Matthew Caesar. My research interests include network verification, network architecture, formal methods, software engineering, and, more generally, improving the reliability and robustness of networked systems.
Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj (Nikko)
speaker
I am a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherstworking with my advisor, Prof. Prashant Shenoy, in the Laboratory for Advance Software System (LASS). My research interests include smart grid, smart building, and renewable energy with emphasis on sustainability (e.g. mitigating greenhouse gas emission) and a bit on privacy and fairness. I expect to defend my thesis and finish my PhD in 2024. Prior coming to UMass, I joined a startup company called Piggipo. We developed a mobile app that help Thai people manage and reduce their credit card debt. We won DTAC Accelerate Program in 2014 and got funded by 500 Startups Thailand. It was an amazing time in my life! I got a chance to meet many nice and brilliant people around the world, which, in the end, led me to my journey to the U.S. Last year, I had a chance to teach First Year Seminar (main instructor) and Computer Networks(co-instruct with Prof. Jim Kurose) courses at UMass Amherst (more details in my Teaching Experiences section below). I enjoyed it a lot and decided that I want to pursue a job in academic with a focus on teaching. Currently, I am on a job market! Please email me for more info.
Sachin Ashok
speaker
I’m a Ph.D. Candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I’m co-advised by Prof. Radhika Mittal and Prof. Brighten Godfrey. Previously, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India, where I worked with Dr. Venkat Padmanabhan, Dr. Nagarajan Natarajan, Dr. Sundararajan Sellamanickam and Dr. Johannes Gehrke on networking research in the context of global-scale online services. Prior to my time in research, I spent 6 months working for Mozilla on Network Security Services as part of Mozilla Winter of Security. I graduated with a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India in 2018. I am quite broadly interested in Systems and Networking. In recent times, my focus has been on Service Meshes and Microservices.
Maleeha Masood
speaker
I am an incoming student beginning my doctorate in Computer Science degree in Fall 2021 at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. I am interested in Networking research and hope to create positive impacts with my research efforts.
Matt 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.
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.