Fraida Fund
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Fraida Fund is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, with affiliations at the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) and NYU WIRELESS. She is interested in using open access experimental platforms like FABRIC, Chameleon, and CloudLab to support reproducibility in computer science and engineering, and especaially in using these platform to bring reproducibility experience into the classroom.
Larry Peterson
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Larry Peterson is a long-time network systems researcher, who now splits his time between Systems Approach LLC (where he authors books and other educational material), the Linux Foundation (where he contributes to open source edge computing platforms), and Princeton University (where he is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus). His research focuses on the design, implementation, and deployment of Internet-scale distributed systems, and includes the widely used PlanetLab and MeasurementLab platforms. Peterson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, the 2010 recipient of the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communication Award, and the 2013 recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Contributions Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 1985.
Tanya Shreedhar
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I am a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Fernando A. Kuipers at the Networked Systems group of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). I received my PhD from Wireless Systems Lab IIIT-Delhi, India in 2023. Previously, I was working as a postdoctoral researcher at NetSys group, University of Edinburgh. I was also a visiting researcher at the Chair of Connected Mobility at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Before joining my PhD, I did my Bachelor in Engineering and received an academic gold medal from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. My research interests lie broadly in the area of networks and systems. I work in the area of next-generation transport protocols, specifically but not limited to Multipath TCP, QUIC and Age Control Protocol. My current research includes working on wireless and mobile systems with a focus on data-driven networking. Additionally, I enjoy working on problems in edge/cloud computing, satellite networking, Internet measurements and emerging Internet applications.
Vasanta Chaganti
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Vasanta Chaganti is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Swarthmore College. Her research interests span Internet Measurement, Performance Modeling, Differential Privacy applied to Network Data, and Network Security.
Ray Ware
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Swarthmore College where I teach systems courses. In my research, I build tools to make evaluating and understanding the Internet and networked systems easier and more accurate. Previously I was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in CMU’s Computer Science Department. I completed my PhD at CMU also in CSD where I was co-advised by Professor Justine Sherry and Professor Srinivasan Seshan. My thesis was about developing a new methodology for determining if a new congestion control algorithm is safe to deploy in the Internet today. I earned my M.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst where I worked with Professor Charles Weems in the Architecture and Language Implementation Group. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from The State University of New York at New Paltz. Prior to CMU, I was Associate Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Cyber Analytics and Decision Systems Group. My dissertation won the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In addition, I was a Facebook Emerging Scholar, a two-time receipient of the National GEM Consortium Fellowship and was named one of SUNY New Paltz’s 40 under Forty Alumni in 2017.
Matthew Caesar
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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.
Jim Kurose
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Jim Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been on the faculty since receiving his PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He received a BA in physics from Wesleyan University. He has held a number of visiting scientist positions in the US and abroad, including the Sorbonne University, the University of Paris, INRIA and IBM Research. His research interests include computer network architecture and protocols, network measurement, sensor networks, and multimedia communication. He is proud to have mentored and taught an amazing group of students, and to have received a number of awards for his research, teaching and service, including the IEEE Infocom Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Taylor Booth Education Medal. With Keith Ross, he is the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Computer Networking: a Top Down Approach (Pearson), now in its 8th edition. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.
From January 2015 to September 2019, Jim was on leave, serving as Assistant Director at the US National Science Foundation, where he led the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). With an annual budget of nearly $1B, CISE’s mission is to uphold the nation’s leadership in scientific discovery and engineering innovation through its support of fundamental research in computer and information science and engineering and transformative advances in cyberinfrastructure. Here is a blogpost on his NSF work. While at NSF, he also served as co-chair of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Subcommittee (NITRD) of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, facilitating the coordination of networking and information technology research and development efforts across Federal agencies. In 2018, Jim also served as the Assistant Director for Artificial Intelligence in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).