Vishal Misra
speaker
Vishal Misra’s research is in the broad area of networking. His work includes both developing mechanisms that make networks work better and faster, and also investigating the economic models that underpin the Internet and their impact on public policy like Network Neutrality. His approach to research is to incorporate fundamental theories like control theory, queueing theory, information theory, and game theory in the design and analysis of networks. Vishal has worked extensively in the design and analysis of congestion control mechanisms, both for the Internet as well as for data centers. His work, based on applying classical control theory to differential equation based model that he developed for Internet traffic, has found its way into becoming part of the DOCSIS 3.1 standard for cable modems and is being deployed worldwide. He has also played a very active role in the public policy debates related to Network Neutrality and the strong recent regulations passed by the Indian and Canadian regulatory authorities are in line with a definition of Network Neutrality he has proposed. He received a BTech from IIT Bombay in 1992, and an MS and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996 and 2000 respectively. Fellow of IEE and ACM. He has been awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay (2019) and a Distinguished Young Alumnus Award by UMass-Amherst College of Engineering (2014).
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.