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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, a range of affiliated faculty (in a broad range of areas including security, machine learning and programming languages) and over 50 graduate students and research staff.

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Faculty
Amy Ousterhout
Joseph Pasquale
George Porter
Stefan Savage
Aaron Schulman
Alex C. Snoeren
Geoffrey M. Voelker
Yiying Zhang
Yuanyuan Zhou
Affiliated Faculty
Dinesh Bharadia (ECE)
kc claffy (CAIDA)
Christian Dameff
Nadia Heninger
Ranjit Jhala
Sorin Lerner
Pat Pannuto
George Papen (ECE)
Lawrence Saul
Deian Stefan
Steve Swanson
Research and Administrative Staff
Grant Ho (postdoc)
Alex Marder (postdoc)
Cindy Moore
Jennifer Folkestad
 
PhD Students
Reyna Abhyankar
Rukshani Athapathu
Alex Bellon
Nishant Bhaskar
Zachary Blanco
Anirudh Canumalla
Junda Chen
Rajdeep Das
Ben Du
Alex Forencich
Hadi Givehchian
Yibo Guo
Zhiyuan Guo
Stewart Grant
Zijian He
Z Haochen Huang
Yutong Huang
Evan Johnson
William Lin
Enze Alex Liu
Elisa Luo
Ariana Mirian
Eric Mugnier
Audrey Randall
Sumanth Rao
Keegan Ryan
Tianyi Shan
Laura Shea
Mingyao Shen
Vikranth Srivatsa
George Sullivan
Amanda Tomlinson
Allison Turner
Alisha Ukani
Yibo Wei
Yudong Wu
Anil Yelam
Zesen Zhang
Li Zhong
MS Students
Katherine Izhikevich
BS Students
Isabel Suizo Jie Xu  
Recent Alumni
Lixiang Ao (Ph.D. 2022) Databricks
Gautam Akiwate (Ph.D. 2022) Stanford postdoc
Sam Crow (Ph.D. 2022)
Yizhou Shan (Ph.D. 2022) Huawei Cloud
Bingyu Shen (Ph.D. 2022) Meta
Alex Gamero-Garrido (Ph.D. 2021) NEU Postdoc
Rob McGuinness (Ph.D. 2021) UCSD ECE Postdoc
Chengcheng Xiang (Ph.D. 2021) Meta
Moein Khazraee (Ph.D. 2020) MIT Postdoc
Guo "Vector" Li (Ph.D. 2020) Google
Shelby Thomas (Ph.D. 2020) Prysm
Louis DeKoven (Ph.D. 2019) Facebook
Brown Farinholt (Ph.D. 2019) Facebook
Zhaomo Yang (Ph.D. 2019) → Google
Max Mellette (Postdoc 2016-2019) InFocus Networks
Joe DeBlasio (Ph.D. 2018) Google
Arjun Roy (Ph.D. 2018) Google

Brian Kantor (retired 2018) ARDC

Stephan Chenette(M.S. 2021) Co-Founder and CTO AttackIQ
Xuhao Luo (M.S. 2021) UIUC Ph.D. program
Keerthana Ganesan (M.S. 2020) Facebook
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

Godwin Pang (B.S. 2021) Confluent
Priyal Suneja (B.S. 2021) UW Ph.D. program
Weiyang "Frank" Wang (B.S. 2020) → MIT Ph.D. program
Ansel Blume (B.S. 2019) Amazon
University of Illinois Ph.D. program

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Recent News

Audrey Randall December 1— Congratulations to Audrey Randall (and her co-authors) for winning the Best Student Paper award at the 2022 APWG eCrime Symposium for her work examining the issues around malware use of blockchain naming systems.

August 23— The Internet Measurement Conference results came out today and once again, UC San Diego was well-represented --- with authors on 7 of the 56 papers papers (and alumns on another 3). Congrats to Ben Du, Audrey Randall, Alisha Ukani, kc Claffy, Stefan Savage, Aaron Schulman, Alex Snoeren and Geoff Voelker on their hard work and good luck, and a special congratulations to Gautam Akiwate who hit the IMC jackpot with five of his papers accepted!

July 8— Congrats to Sam Crow who successfully defended his thesis today, "Security Testing Tools for Complex Cyber-Physical Systems". No doubt the only Ph.D. we've seen that involved significant chunks of a 737 in their home. Congrats! Sam Crow

Gautam Akiwate June 1— Congrats to Gautam Akiwate who successfully defended his thesis today, "Identifying DNS Infrastructure Hijacks using Large Scale Measurements". Gautam will be starting a Postdoc with Zakir Durumeric at Stanford. Gautam has been a force for good in the department for longer than he will admit -- supporting Chez Bob, the holiday parties, sysnet outings, etc -- and we will all miss him.

May 23— Eleven years ago, UCSD alumns Kirill Levchenko, Andreas Pitsillidis, Neha Chachra, Brandon Enright, Tristan Halvorson, Chris Kanich, He Liu, and Damon McCoy, along with UCSD faculty Geoff Voelker, Stefan Savage and their colleagues from Berkeley and Budapest, Mark Felegyhazi, Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, published a comprehensive analysis of the spam criminal value chain. Today that paper, Click Trajectories: End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain and its impact was celebrated with the Test-of-Time award, presented at the 2022 IEEE Security and Privacy conference. Congrats all!

April 13— Fourteen years after publishing their 2008 ASPLOS paper "Learning from Mistakes -- A Comprehensive Study on Real World Concurrency Bug Characteristics", YY Zhou and her co-authors have received this year's "Most Influential Paper" award from ASPLOS for this work. Congrats to YY, Shan, Soyeon and Eunsoo! YY Zhou

Alisha Ukani April 4— The results of this year's NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program are out and we are delighted to share that Alisha Ukani was among the winners. Congrats Alisha!

March 4— Back-to-back defenders! Congratulations also to Yizhou Shan, who defended his dissertation today on "Distributing and Disaggregating Resources in Data Centers". Yizhou will be starting as Research Scientist at Huawei Cloud this spring. Yizhou Shan

Lixiang Ao March 3— Congratulations to Lixiang Ao, who defended his dissertation today on "Framework and Platform Support for General Purpose Serverless Computing". Lixiang will be starting at Databricks this spring.

October 8— We just learned that our own Alisha Ukani has been named to this year's class of UCSD ACRS Foundation Fellows. Congrats Alisha! Alisha Ukani
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Recent Publications

Memory Management in ActiveRMT: Towards Runtime-programmable Switches, Rajdeep Das and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, New York, NY, September 2023.

Destination Unreachable: Characterizing Internet Outages and Shutdowns, Zachary S. Bischof, Kennedy Pitcher, Esteban Carisimo, Amanda Meng, Rafael Bezerra Nunes, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Margaret E. Roberts, Alex C. Snoeren, and Alberto Dainotti, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, New York, NY, September 2023.

Understanding the viability of e-mail origin indicators for identifying the sender, Enze Liu, Lu Sun, Alex Bellon, Grant Ho, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Imani N. S. Munyaka, Proceedings of the Sympsoium on Useable Privacy and Security, Anaheim, CA, August 2023.

Access Denied: Assessing Physical Risks to Internet Access Networks, Alexander Marder, Zesen Zhang, Ricky Mok, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Bradley Huffaker, Matthew Luckie, Alberto Dainotti, kc claffy, Alex C. Snoeren, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, August 2023.

Improving Logging to Reduce Permission Over-Granting Mistakes, Bingyu Shen, Tianyi Shan, and Yuanyuan Zhou, Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, August 2023.

MultiView: Finding Blind Spotsin Access-Deny Issues, Bingyu Shen, Tianyi Shan, and Yuanyuan Zhou, Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, August 2023.

No Privacy Among Spies: Assessing the Functionality and Insecurity of Consumer Android Spyware Apps, Enze Liu, Sumanth Rao, Sam Havron, Grant Ho, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Damon McCoy, Proceedings of the 23rd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2023.

Forward Pass: On the Security Implications of Email Forwarding Mechanism and Policy, Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Mattijs Jonker, Ariana Mirian, Grant Ho, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Delft, The Netherlands, July 2023.

WaVe: a Verifiably Secure WebAssembly Sandboxing Runtime, Evan Johnson, Evan Laufer, Zijie Zhao, Shravan Narayan, Stefan Savage, Deian Stefan, and Fraser Brown, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2023.

Ransomware Attack Associated With Disruptions at Adjacent Emergency Departments in the US, Christian Dameff, Jeffrey Tully, Theodore C. Chan, Edward M. Castillo, Stefan Savage, Patricia Maysent, Thomas M. Hemmen, Brian J. Clay, and Christopher A. Longhurst, JAMA Network Open 6(5):e2312270-e2312270, 2023.

Disaggregating Stateful Network Functions, Deepak Bansal, Gerald DeGrace, Rishabh Tewari, Michal Zygmunt, James Grantham, Silvano Gai, Mario Baldi, Krishna Doddapaneni, Arun Selvarajan, Arunkumar Arumugam, Balakrishnan Raman, Avijit Gupta, Sachin Jain, Deven Jagasia, Evan Langlais, Pranjal Srivastava, Rishiraj Hazarika, Neeraj Motwani, Soumya Tiwari, Stewart Grant, Ranveer Chandra, and Srikanth Kandula, Proceedings of the 17th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, April 2023.

Canvas: Isolated and Adaptive Swapping for Multi-Applications on Remote Memory, Chenxi Wang, Yifan Qiao, Haoran Ma, Shi Liu, Yiying Zhang, Wenguang Chen, Ravi Netravali, Miryung Kim, and Harry Xu, Proceedings of the 17th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, April 2023.

Hermit: Low-Latency, High-Throughput, and Transparent Remote Memory via Feedback-Directed Asynchrony, Yifan Qiao, Chenxi Wang, Zhenyuan Ruan, Adam Belay, Qingda Lu, Yiying Zhang, Miryung Kim, and Harry Xu, Proceedings of the 17th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Boston, MA, April 2023.

Rosebud: Making FPGA-accelerated Middlebox Development More Pleasant, Moein Khazraee, Alex Forencich, George C. Papen, Alex C. Snoeren, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Vancouver, Canada, March 2023.

Protecting Data Integrity of Web Applications with Database Constraints Inferred from Application Code, Haochen Huang, Bingyu Shen, Li Zhong, and Yuanyuan Zhou, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Vancouver, Canada, March 2023.

A metric for factoring data movement into chasing the sun, Yibo Guo and George Porter, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NetZero Carbon Computing (NetZero'23), Montreal, Canada, February 2023.

Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data, Amy Ousterhout, Steve McCanne, Henri Dubois-Ferriere, Silvery Fu, Sylvia Ratnasamy, and Noah Treuhaft, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2023.

Scaling beyond packet switch limits with multiple dataplanes, Yibo Guo, William M. Mellette, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Porter, Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Rome, Italy, December 2022.

The Challenges of Blockchain-based Naming Systems for Malware Defenders, Audrey Randall, Wes Hardaker, Aaron Schulman, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), November 2022. (Best Student Paper).

Retroactive Identification of Targeted DNS Infrastructure Hijacking, Gautam Akiwate, Raffaele Sommese, Mattijs Jonker, Zakir Durumeric, kc Claffy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 2022.

Where .ru? Assessing the Impact of Conflict on Russian Domain Infrastructure, Mattijs Jonker, Gautam Akiwate, Antonia Affinito, kc Claffy, Alessio Botta, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Rolan van Rijswijk-Deij, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 2022.

Measuring UID Smuggling in the Wild, Audrey Randall, Peter Snyder, Alisha Ukani, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Stefan Savage, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 2022.

Stop, DROP, and ROA: Effectiveness of Defenses through the lens of DROP, Leo Oliver, Gautam Akiwate, Matthew Luckie, Ben Du, and kc Claffy, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 2022.

ZDNS: A Fast DNS Toolkit for Internet Measurement, Liz Izhikevich, Gautam Akiwate, Briana Berger, Spencer Drakontaidis, Anna Ascheman, Paul Pearce, David Adrian, and Zakir Durumeric, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 2022.

Mind Your MANRS: Measuring the MANRS Ecosystem, Ben Du, Cecilia Testart, Romain Fontugne, Gautam Akiwate, Alex C. Snoeren, and kc Claffy, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Nice, France, October 2022.

Measuring Security Practices, Louis F. DeKoven, Audrey Randall, Ariana Mirian, Gautam Akiwate, Ansel Blume, Lawrence K. Saul, Aaron Schulman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 65(9):93-102, September 2022.

Time-division TCP for Reconfigurable Data Center Networks, Shawn Shuoshuo Chen, Weiyang Wang, Christopher Canel, Srinivasan Seshan, Alex C. Snoeren, and Peter Steenkiste, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 2022. (The first two authors contributed equally).

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Affiliations
Center for Networked Systems (CNS)         Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)       Center for Wireless Communications (CWC)CWC        San Diego Super Computer Center (SDSC)        California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Cal-IT2) CalIT(2)
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