UCSD CSE - Systems and Networking

The systems and networking group at UCSD engages in a wide range of experimental and theoretical research. Our current projects span fault-tolerant networks and systems, high-speed router design, storage system design, network measurement and traffic analysis, peer-to-peer system design, network security, mobile code architectures, high-performance cluster computing, and wireless networking. Our group consists of eight core faculty, five affiliated faculty (in a broad range of areas including security, machine learning and programming languages) and over 50 graduate students and research staff.

Faculty

Joseph Pasquale
George Porter
Stefan Savage

Aaron Schulman
Alex C. Snoeren
Geoffrey M. Voelker

Yiying Zhang
Yuanyuan Zhou

Scientists and Postdocs

William M. Mellette

Ken Yocum

Affiliated Faculty

Dinesh Bharadia (ECE)
kc claffy (CAIDA)
Ranjit Jhala
Sorin Lerner

Kirill Levchenko (adjunct)
George Papen (ECE)
Lawrence Saul
Hovav Shacham (adjunct)

Deian Stefan
Steve Swanson
Tajana Šimunić Rosing

Research and Administrative Staff

Cindy Moore

Jennifer Folkestad

PhD Students

Gautam Akiwate
Lixiang Ao
Nishant Bhaskar
Sunjay Cauligi
Sam Crow
Rajdeep Das
Alex Forencich
Alex Gamero-Garrido
Yibo Guo
Hadi Givehchian
Stewart Grant
Zhiyuan Guo

Haochen Huang
Evan Johnson
Moein Khazraee
Guo "Vector" Li
Enze Alex Liu
Rob McGuinness
Ariana Mirian
Matthew Parker
Audrey Randall
Keegan Ryan
Yizhou Shan

Bingyu Shen
Mingyao Shen
Gary Soeller
George Sullivan
Shelby Thomas
Shu-Ting Wang
Yudong Wu
Chengcheng Xiang
Zhaomo Yang
Anil Yelam
Zesen Zhang

MS Students

Recent Alumni

Louis DeKoven (Ph.D. 2019) → Facebook
Brown Farinholt (Ph.D. 2019) → Google
Joe DeBlasio (Ph.D. 2018) → Google
Arjun Roy (Ph.D. 2018) → Google

Tianyin Xu (Ph.D. 2017) → University of Illinois
Danny Huang (Ph.D. 2017) → Princeton (postdoc)
Xinxin Jin (Ph.D. 2017) → Whova

Brian Johannesmeyer → Vrije Universiteit Ph.D. program
Maxwell Bland (M.S. 2019) → University of Illinois Ph.D. program
Liz Izhikevich (M.S. 2018) → Stanford Ph.D. program
Rohit Kulkarni (M.S. 2018) → Qualcomm

Karthik Balasubramaniam (M.S. 2017) → Amazon

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Recent News

December 17— The year ends on a high note with the fantastic news that Alex Snoeren has been named an ACM Fellow for his "his innovative approaches to measuring, managing and directing network traffic". He will henceforth be known as Packet Whisperer.

December 1— The fall hike was a six-mile hike in Torrey Pines. The park closed the trails, so we hiked the road to the golf course and then back down along the beach. (Pics) (GPS Track) (All Hikes)

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Recent Publications

Expanding Across Time to Deliver Bandwidth Efficiency and Low Latency, William M. Mellette, Rajdeep Das, Yibo Guo, Rob McGuinness, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Porter, Proceedings of the 17th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Santa Clara, CA, February 2020.

Understanding the Limits of Passive Realtime Datacenter Fault Detection and Localization, Arjun Roy, Rajdeep Das, Hongyi Zeng, Jasmeet Bagga, and Alex C. Snoeren, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking(5), October 2019.

Always on Stress: The Emotive Impact of Anytime, Anywhere Discussion Boards, Megan Bardolph, George Porter, Paul Hadjipieris, and Jace Hargis, Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal(2), 2019.

Measuring Security Practices and How They Impact Security, Louis F. DeKoven, Audrey Randall, Ariana Mirian, Gautam Akiwate, Ansel Blume, Lawrence K. Saul, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019.

Detecting if LTE is the Bottleneck with BurstTracker, Arjun Balasingam, Manu Bansal, Rakesh Misra, Kanthi Nagaraj, Rahul Tandra, Sachin Katti, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Los Cabos, Mexico, October 2019.

Residential Links Under the Weather, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Aaron Schulman, Dave Levin, and Neil Spring, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Beijing, China, August 2019.

Triton: A Software-Reconfigurable Federated Avionics Testbed, Sam Crow, Brown Farinholt, Brian Johannesmeyer, Karl Koscher, Stephen Checkoway, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman, Alex C. Snoeren, and Kirill Levchenko, Proceedings of Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), Santa Clara, CA, August 2019.

Detecting and Characterizing Lateral Phishing at Scale, Grant Ho, Asaf Cidon, Lior Gavish, Marco Schweighauser, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and David Wagner, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, August 2019. (Distinguished paper).

Reading the Tea Leaves: A Comparative Analysis of Threat Intelligence, Vector Guo Li, Matthew Dunn, Paul Pearce, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, and Kirill Levchenko, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, August 2019.

"Please Pay Inside": Evaluating Bluetooth-based Detection of Gas Pump Skimmers, Nishant Bhaskar, Maxwell Bland, Kirill Levchenko, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, August 2019.

Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics, Vicky Papavasileiou, Ken Yocum, and Alin Deutsch, Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2019.

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