Ph.D Students

• Sumeet Singh
Ph.D. Candidate: Sumeet has made key contributions to packet classification (the algorithm HyperCuts which Cisco has implemented in software) and in Automated Worm Fingerprinting (the basis for NetSift of which he was a co-founder). Sumeet won the MIT TR-35 Award for 2006. awarded to researchers who have significantly changed technology..
• Ramana Kompella
Ph.D. Candidate: Ramana has done research in a number of areas including randomized DRR and scalable attack detection. Recently, along with Alex Snoeren and Albert Greenberg at ATT, he has formulated and built tools for fault localization in large networks that are being used at ATT.
• Cristian Estan
Ph.D. Thesis, 2004: Algorithmic Measurement Theory; Cristi's thesis introduced several measurement primitives (multistage filters, bitmap counters) that can be implemented at high speed (say 40 Gbps). Cristi also built a software system called AutoFocus that mined network traffic for significant patterns where a pattern is any group of header bits that exhibits significant traffic. His thesis was nominated for the ACM thesis prize. Cristi's work has influenced router vendors and has been incorporated in a company called NetSift that was acquired by Cisco systems. Cristi is currently an assistant professor (in Computer Science) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Florin Baboescu
Ph.D. Thesis, 2003: Packet Classification; Florin's thesis introduced several new packet classification algorithms. He worked briefly for Cisco on a high speed packet processor but is now in the Networking group at Qualcomm
• Lili Qiu
Ph.D. Thesis, 1999: An Integrated Approach to Web Performance. We began working together on classification when Lili visited UCSD in 2000 from Cornell. Lili's Ph.D. thesis was jointly advised by Robert Van Renesse (from Cornell) and myself. Lili completed her Ph.D. in September 99, worked for a few years in the Systems division in Microsoft Research, and is now an Assistant Professor (in Computer Science) at the University of Texas at Austin.
• V. Srinivasan
Ph.D. Thesis, 1999: fast best matching prefix algorithms for IP; Level 4 Switching TCP modifications for efficiency. Was named coinventor on 4 patent filings and his thesis was nominated for the ACM Thesis Prize. Hired into Microsoft Research after his Ph.D., he became one of of the founders of Sahasra Networks (high speed IP Lookups). Sahasra was acquired by Cypress and then by NetLogic.
• Marcel Waldvogel
Ph.D. Thesis, 1999: fast routing lookups. Jointly advised by Bernie Plattner (from ETH) and myself. Marcel completed his Ph.D. in September 99 and is now a faculty member at the University of Konstantz (he was briefly a faculty member at Washington University).
• Girish Chandranmenon
Ph.D. Thesis, 99: optimizing web protocols to improve latency; Finished his Ph.D in Aug 99. Had an offer from Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor, but chose to go to Lucent Bell Labs.

Other graduated Ph.D. students who I have worked closely with (though they have different advisors) are:
Amy Murphy, formerly an Assistant Professor at Rochester, now at the University of Lugano in Switzerland
Hari Adisheshu, now at Lucent
Christos Papadapolous, formerly a professor at USC and now at Colorado State University

Past M.S. Students

• Sandeep Sikka: M.S. Thesis: on fast memory allocators for network ASICs, Finished his M.S. in Aug 99 and joined Inktomi.
• Manmohan Mysore: M.S. Thesis in Multicast File Transfer Protocols, worked first in Nomadix, now at Nokia
• Rajib Ghosh: M.S. Thesis on New Techniques for Routing and Congestion Control, Aug 98. Worked for Citibank and then joined Jibe Systems that was acquired recently.
• Mahesh Jayaram: M.S Thesis on Fault Span of Crash Failures, Sept 96. Winner of a Best Student Paper Award in PODC 96. Currently working at Microsoft
• Adam Costello: M.S.Thesis on Self-stabilization by Window Washing and Counter Flushing, Sept 96. Finished his Ph.D at Berkeley in the mobile computing group, currently at Google.
• M. Shreedhar: M.S. Thesis on Efficient Fair Queuing using Deficit Round Robin, Sept 1994. Worked for many years in Microsoft Networking.