UCSD CSE - Systems and Networking

Shelby Thomas (Ph.D. 2020) → Prysm
Moein Khazraee (Ph.D. 2020) → MIT Postdoc
Guo "Vector" Li (Ph.D. 2020) → Google
Zhaomo Yang (Ph.D. 2019) → Google
Louis DeKoven (Ph.D. 2019) → Facebook
Brown Farinholt (Ph.D. 2019) → Facebook
Max Mellette (Postdoc 2016-2019) → InFocus Networks
Joe DeBlasio (Ph.D. 2018) → Google
Arjun Roy (Ph.D. 2018) → Google

Brian Kantor (retired 2018) → ARDC

Tianyin Xu (Ph.D. 2017) → University of Illinois
Danny Huang (Ph.D. 2017) → Princeton (postdoc) → NYU Poly
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
Keerthana Ganesan (M.S. 2020) → Facebook

Weiyang "Frank" Wang (B.S. 2020) → MIT Ph.D. program
Ansel Blume (B.S. 2019) → Amazon
→ University of Illinois Ph.D. program

[All Alumni]

Recent News

January 5— Conatulations to Audrey Randall (and her co-authors) for being named as a winner of the Internet Research Task Force's Applied Networking Research Prize for her work on the Trufflehunter DNS inference system.

August 16— IMC 2020 paper acceptances are now public and, of the 53 papers accepted, five are from UCSD and another five are from UCSD alumni. Congrats to Gautam Akiwate, Audrey Randall, Enze Liu, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker and Aaron Schulman from CSE, Alexander Marder, Alberto Dainotti and kc Claffy from CAIDA, and our alumns (Chris Kanich, Yoshi Kohno, Yuvraj Agarwal, Liz Izhikievich and Damon McCoy). Particular congrats to Gautam who had three papers accepted this round!

June 10— Congrats to Guo "Vector" Li, who defended his dissertation today on "An Empirical Analysis on Threat Intelligence: Data Characteristic and Real-World Uses". Vector will be joining Google to work on cloud security with our old collaborator, Chris Grier.

May 22— Congrats to Moein Khazraee! Moein defended his dissertation, "Reducing Development Cost for Customized Hardware Accleration in the Cloud Infrastructure", today and will soon start his postdoc at MIT.

May 18— Congratulations to the all-star team of Steve Checkoway, Damon McCoy, Danny Anderson, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage, and the late Brian Kantor, and their University of Washington collaborators Karl Koscher, Alexei Czeskis, Franzi Roesner, Shwetak Patel, and Yoshi Kohno! Their landmark study of the vulnerability of modern automobiles was awarded the 2020 IEEE Security & Privacy Test of Time Award. Read more about their efforts around their seminal work.

March 12— Congratulations to Nadia Heninger and her collaborators for setting a new factoring record by being the first to factor the RSA-250 prime in the RSA factoring challenge.

February 25— Congratulations to Mohammad Al-Fares, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Barath Raghavan, Nelson Huang and Amin Vahdat for winning the the NSDI Test-of-Time award! Their paper, Hedera: Dynamic Flow Schedule for Data Center Networks, was published ten years ago and is part of the group's legacy of leading data center networking research. Ten years later, the authors are doing well. Mohammad is at Google along with Engineering Fellow and Vice President Amin Vahdat, Siva is at Forward Networks and Barath is on the faculty at USC. UCSD has quite a history with this award and four out of the last five years have seen NSDI Test-of-Time awards given to papers with one or more UCSD authors.

February 7— Congratulations to Yiying Zhang who was awarded a VMware Early Career Faculty Grant!

[All News]

Recent Publications

Jetset: Targeted Firmware Rehosting for Embedded Systems, Evan Johnson, Maxwell Bland, Yifei Zhu, Joshua Mason, Stephen Checkoway, Stefan Savage, and Kirill Levchenko, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 2021.

Can Systems Explain Permissions Better? Understanding Users' Misperceptions under Smartphone Runtime Permission Model, Bingyu Shen, Lili Wei, Chengcheng Xiang, Yudong Wu, Mingyao Shen, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Xinxin Jin, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 2021.

Columbus: Fast, Reliable Co-residence Detection for Lambdas, Anil Yelam, Ariana Mirian, Keerthana Ganesan, Shibani Subbareddy, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), Ljubljana, Solvenia, arp 2021.

Clairvoyance: Inferring Blocklist Use on the Internet, Vector Guo Li, Gautam Akiwate, Kirill Levchenko, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Brandenburg, Germany, March 2021.

Inferring Cloud Interconnections: Validation, Geolocation, and Routing Behavior, Alex Marder, kc claffy, and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Brandenburg, Germany, March 2021.

Доверя́й, но проверя́й: SFI safety for native-compiled Wasm, Evan Johnson, David Thien, Yousef Alhessi, Shravan Narayan, Fraser Brown, Sorin Lerner, Tyler McMullen, Stefan Savage, and Deian Stefan, Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, February 2021.

Optical networking within the Lightwave Energy-Efficient Datacenter project Invited, William M. Mellette, Alex Forencich, Jason Kelley, Joseph Ford, George Porter, Alex C. Snoeren, and George Papen, J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 12(12):378-389, December 2020.

LevelUp: A thin-cloud approach to game livestreaming, Landon P. Cox and Lixiang Ao, Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, Virtual Event, November 2020.

Enabling Active Networking on RMT Hardware, Rajdeep Das and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-XIX), Chicago, IL, November 2020.

Unresolved Issues: Prevalence, Persistence and Perils of Lame Nameservers, Gautam Akiwate, Raffaele Sommese, Mattijs Jonker, Ian Foster, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and kc Claffy, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (via the Internet), October 2020.

Trufflehunter: Cache Sniffing Rare Domains at Large Public DNS Resolvers, Audrey Randall, Enze Liu, Gautam Akiwate, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (via the Internet), October 2020.

MAnycast2 -- Using Anycast to Measure Anycast: Challenges and Opportunities, Raffaele Sommese, Gautam Akiwate, Leandro Bertholdo, Mattijs Jonker, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Alberto Dainotti, KC Claffy, and Anna Sperotto, Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (via the Internet), October 2020.

Particle: Ephemeral Endpoints for Serverless Networking, Shelby Thomas, Lixiang Ao, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and George Porter, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), October 2020.

SmartNIC Performance Isolation with FairNIC: Programmable Networking for the Cloud, Stewart Grant, Anil Yelam, Maxwell Bland, and Alex C. Snoeren, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, New York, NY, August 2020. (The first two authors contributed equally).

PracExtractor: Extracting Configuration Good Practices from Manuals to Detect Server Misconfigurations, Chengcheng Xiang, Haochen Huang, Andrew Yoo, Yuanyuan Zhou, and Shankar Pasupathy, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July 2020.

Disaggregating Persistent Memory and Controlling Them Remotely: An Exploration of Passive Disaggregated Key-Value Stores, Shin-Yeh Tsai, Yizhou Shan, and Yiying Zhang, Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July 2020.

Understanding Memory and Thread Safety Practices and Issues in Real-World Rust Programs, Boqin Qin, Yilun Chen, Zeming Yu, Linhai Song, and Yiying Zhang, Proceedings of Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2020. (The first two authors contributed equally).

Corundum: An Open-Source 100-Gbps NIC, Alex Forencich, Alex C. Snoeren, George Porter, and George Papen, Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Symposium On Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Fayetteville, AR, May 2020.

Dark Matter: Uncovering the DarkComet RAT Ecosystem, Brown Farinholt, Mohammad Rezaeirad, Damon McCoy, and Kirill Levchenko, Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2020.