UCSD CSE - Systems and Networking

Zhaomo Yang → Google
Louis DeKoven (Ph.D. 2019) → Facebook
Brown Farinholt (Ph.D. 2019) → Facebook
William (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)
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

[All Alumni]

Recent News

November 21— It is with great sadness that we learned today that Brian Kantor has passed away. Brian worked in the systems and networking group for the last decade before his retirement in 2018. You'll see his name on the automotive and voting security papers we published and the reality is that much of the work we did benefited from his ability to pull a rabbit out of the hat when we needed one. But CSE was only a small part of his time here at UCSD. Brian was truly an institution and had been at UCSD for 47 years. He was the University postmaster, he ran the name servers and he helped run network infrastructure. For those old enough to remember rlogin — he wrote the protocol. Ditto for the NNTP protocol that Netnews was based on. He was a nationally known ham radio operator and also co-founded and managed AMPRnet (the amateur radio packet network) which also became a critical research resource both here in CSE and at CAIDA. Brian was a unique personality and didn't naturally fit within bureaucracies, but he was eager to teach to those who wanted to learn, had a sharp wit and was an implacable advocate for doing the right thing. We were lucky to have had the time we had with him.

September 27— kc claffy was named one of this year's 11 inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame! While formally recognized for her own "pioneering work in Internet analysis and measurement", we all know that the datasets CAIDA (which she founded in 1997 and directs to this day) produces underly a large fraction of not only SysNet's publication list, but the networking community's at large. We’re not worthy!

September 5— Congrats to Zhaomo Yang, who defended his dissertation today on "Compilers and Software Security: Opportunities and Challenges". He will be joining Google shortly.

August 18— Today, at Crypto 2019, Nadia Heninger was named the recipient of the CRA-W's Borg Early Career Award! Congrats Nadia!

August 14— Congrats to Geoff Voelker, Stefan Savage and their Berkeley colleagues (notably Ph.D. student Grant Ho who, was the sole student on this effort) for winning the Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security for their paper, Detecting and Characterizing Lateral Phishing at Scale.

June 14— Alex Gamero-Garrido has been awarded a Microsoft Dissertation Grant to support his work identifying nations whose Internet connectivity is particularly vulnerable to censorship, inspection, or disruption by foreign countries. Congratulations Alex!

June 7— Congratulations to Ariana Mirian for receiving the 2019 CSE Doctoral Award for Excellence in Service/Leadership, together with Ailie Fraser. Thank you for your dedication, Ariana!

May 24— Congratulations to Louis Dekoven and Brown Farinholt for defending their respective dissertations today. This double header started with Brown's "Understanding the Remote Access Trojan malware ecosystem through the lens of the infamous DarkComet RAT", broke for lunch, and then concluded with Louis, "Addressing Device Compromise from the Perspective of Large Organizations". This is not their last party together however, as both are eventually headed to a new group at Facebook's DC office.

[All News]

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.

Adapting TCP for Reconfigurable Datacenter Networks, Matthew Mukerjee, Christopher Canel, Weiyang Wang, Daehyeok Kim, Srinivasan Seshan, and Alex C. Snoeren, 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.

[All Publications]

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