Topics

  • Datacenter and low latency networks
  • Software-defined networking
  • Router architecture
  • Networks for bigdata applications

Lab

Our research group is part of BITS lab. BITS lab is a loose amalgamation of researchers in various areas such as networking, systems, and security.

Funding and Support

My lab is supported using the following grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

  • BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: F: RDMA-Based Datacenter Networks for Online Big Data Applications
  • FMitF: Track I: Injecting Formal Methods into Internet Standardization
  • CNS Core: Small: Network-wide Policy Enforcement in Programmable Networks using Logical Queues

Current Students

  • Mojtaba Malekpourshahraki (PhD)
  • Hamidreza Almasi (PhD)
  • Amirhossein Seyri (PhD)
  • Rohan Vardekar (PhD)
  • Aishwarya Ganesh (MS)

Past Students

  • Shawn Kim (MS – thesis) → National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
  • Xing Li (MS – project) → healthcare startup
  • Muhammad Usama Chaudhry (MS – thesis) → VMWare
  • Shibin Mathew (MS – thesis) → Ericsson
  • Hamed Rezaei (PhD) → Rockwell Automation
  • Vineeth Sagar (MS) → Microsoft

Collaborators and Industry Partners

  • UT, Austin: Aditya Akella
  • Utah: Brent Stephens
  • UIC: Amit Trivedi, Hulya Seferoglu
  • AT&T research: Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Emir Halepovic
  • Purdue: Mithuna Thottithodi
  • Microsoft: Abhisek Pan
  • Indian Institute of Science: Parimal Parag

Service

  • NSF Panels: 2016 | 2018 | 2021
  • Program committee
    • WWW: 2022
    • WSDM: 2022
    • INFOCOM: 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023
    • LANMAN: 2020 | 2021 | 2022
    • NetSoft: 2021
    • COMSNETS: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021
    • ANTS: 2018 | 2019
    • EMC2 workshop, colocated with NeurIPS: 2019
    • CoNEXT Student Workshop: 2016 | 2017
  • External review
    • SIGCOMM 2021
    • NSDI: 2014
    • CoNEXT: 2013
    • ATC: 2018
    • INFOCOM: 2014
    • HotInterconnects: 2013
  • Journal review
    • Transactions on Networking (ToN)
    • Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
    • Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC)
    • Transactions on Computers (TC)
    • Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
    • Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
    • Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)
    • Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks (COMNET)