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I am an professor in the Carnegie Mellon University. My group focuses on developing models and designing algorithms and frameworks to improve the performance and availability of computer networks. In particular, my group explores the critical role that network state plays in determining network performance and availability with the state’s inherent semantics and emergent state management techniques by investigating designs and algorithms to more holistically understand and manage this state. More recently, we have applied this approach to addressing the digital divide, improving microservices/clouds, managing software defined networks, and rethinking CDN designs. Our designs and systems have been deployed at web scale companies, adopted by opensource systems, and acquired by a large hardware manufacturer.
Award | Sept 2021 | Awarded a $250K grant from VMWare for research on ``Human in the Loop AIOps'' for Microservices management. |
Paper | Aug 2021 | Our work on fault tolerance control planes, accepted to SoSR'21. |
Impact | Aug 2021 | APNIC blog on our work on dissecting QUIC performance (WWW'21) updates is online!!! |
Invited Keynote/Talk | Jun 2021 | Invited to give a talk on Abstractions for Next Generation CDNs, at LANMAN'21. |
Paper | Jun 2021 | Our work on learning-augmented CDNs , accepted to NDSI'22. |
Panel | May 2021 | Invited to serve on the HotOS'21 Panel on The Future of Hardware Development, A Perspective from Systems Researchers |
Award | Apr 2021 | Awarded NEC grant for work on data-driven approaches for improving web performance on 5G!!! |
Impact | Apr 2021 | Parts of our methodology for testing H3 has been incorporated into Envoy the proxy for Kubernetes!!! |
Impact | Mar 2021 | APNIC blog on our work on Zero Down Time (SIGCOMM'20) updates is online!!! |
Seminar Lead | Feb 2021 | Report from our joint US-Japan workshop on programmable data planes is online!!! |
ISAT Study | Jan 2021 | Excited to join DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group. |
Invited Keynote/Talk | Jan 2021 | Invited keynote at HotDC workshop!! |
Jan 2021 | Teaching distributed systems (CSCI1380) in hybrid, synchronous and asynchronous modes!! | |
Paper | Jan 2021 | Two papers on client side web optimizations (WebMedic and WebPerfOptimization) accepted to HotMobile'21. |
Service | Jan 2021 | Excited to serve on the NSDI'22 PC. Please submit your papers. |
Paper | Jan 2021 | Our work on dissecting production QuiC , accepted to WWW'21. |
Service | Dec 2020 | Excited to serve on the OSDI'21 PC. Please submit your papers. |
Service | Nov 2020 | Excited to join the Telemetry Working Group. |
Paper | Nov 2020 | Four papers accepted at the CoNEXT student workshop. |
Paper | Aug 2020 | Our work on Solver-Aided Multi-Party configuration of microservices, Muppet, accepted to HotNets'20. |
Paper | Sep 2020 | Our work on understanding Mobile Web Browsing Under Memory Pressure, accepted to CCR'20's Oct Issue. |
Award | Aug 2020 | Our work on extending tracing to P4, FoxHound, wins Student Research Competition. |
Paper | July 2020 | Our work on rethinking microservices observation ViperProbe accepted at CloudNet'20. |
Paper | May 2020 | Our work on zero downtime updates to Facebook's CDNs accepted to SIGCOMM'20. |
Paper | Apr 2020 | Our work on fingerprinting CDNs, Inspector Gadget, accepted to TMA'20. |
Paper | May 2020 | Journal paper on validating MUD profiles for IoT Security accepted to TDSC. |
Outreach | Feb 2020 | Hosting a visiting scholar from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) to explore the role of programmable data planes in debugging microservices. |
Outreach | Jan 2020 | Hosting a visiting scholar from FORTH Crete to revisit the role of IXPs in DDoS prevention. |