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The Networking Channel

Philipa Gill

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Phillipa Gill is a research scientist at Google where she works on computer networking and network measurement. Prior to joining Google she was an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst. Her work focuses on many aspects of computer networking and security with a focus on designing novel network measurement techniques to improve the security and reliability of networks.

Arpit Gupta

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I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, and Faculty Scientist at Berkeley Lab. I co-direct the Systems and Networking Lab (SNL) at UCSB. At SNL, I have been utilizing my system-building skills to address a variety of pressing digital inequity challenges, namely, ensuring secure, performant, and affordable “Internet for All.” To this end, my current research focuses on democratizing the development of production-ready ML artifacts for self-driving networks (to ensure performant and secure connectivity with limited infrastructure and operational resources) and enabling data-driven policymaking (to ensure performant and affordable connectivity with limited capital resources).

Henning Schulzrinne

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He has been working on voice-over-Internet protocols that now power voice communications for modern mobile phones, enterprise, consumer, and public safety applications. From 2010 through 2019, he advised the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including in his former role as FCC Chief Technologist, on public safety, enabling communications for people with disabilities, the Open Internet, cybersecurity, network measurements, and preventing robocalling. From 2019 to 2020, he served as a Technology Fellow in the office of Senator Ron Wyden, advancing efforts to protect data against illegal searches, improving broadband availability for rural and low-income households, and preventing identity theft. Since December 2022, he has acted as Broadband Advisor to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), working on broadband deployment for rural and low-income areas. Schulzrinne and his team have developed the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), and other multimedia signaling and support protocols that are used in the 3GPP, CableLabs, NENA NG911 (for emergency calls) and other system standards to support VoIP and multimedia streaming applications. Most recently, he has been working on automating the diagnostics of Internet network faults, protecting the electric grid against cyber-attacks, and scaling up the Internet of Things. Schulzrinne received his undergraduate education at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, his MSEE at the University of Cincinnati, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1992. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.

Timur Friedman

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Timur Friedman is currently a Faculty Member with Sorbonne University and a member of the LIP6 and LINCS Computer Science Laboratories. His research expertise is in the area of internet measurements. Starting in 2008, he was co-responsible for setting up and running the PlanetLab Europe testbed, part of the EU’s Fed4FIRE+ testbed federation. He has extensive experience in EU projects (FP6, FP7, and H2020), most recently as the Leader of the EMBERS Project.
Christophe Diot

Christophe Diot

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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.