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
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
Haochen Huang
Moein Khazraee
Guo "Vector" Li
Rob McGuinness
Ariana Mirian
Audrey Randall
Bingyu Shen

Mingyao Shen
Gary Soeller
Shelby Thomas
Shu-Ting Wang
Yudong Wu
Chengcheng Xiang
Zhaomo Yang
Anil Yelam

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)

November 9— In the news! GCN highlights Lixiang Ao's and Liz Izhikevich's paper at ACM SOCC on the Sprocket serverless video processing system: "Sprocket kicks video processing into high gear".

November 7— Alumna Renata Teixeira has been named an ACM Distinguished Member. Congratulations, Renata!

November 1— The recipients of this year's Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship are Anton Sydorenko (senior, Computer Science) and Adrian Mendoza (junior, Computer Engineering). These scholarships mark the third consecutive year that the Center for Networked Systems has recognized students studying networked systems for their academic commitment and involvement in the LGBT community, and the first year that it has awarded the scholarship to more than one student. Congratulations Anton and Adrian!

August 21— In exciting news, Amogh Dhamdhere, Alex Gamero-Garrido, Gautam Akiwate, Alex Snoeren and their co-authors received the Best Paper award at SIGCOMM 2018 today in Budapest for their paper on inferring interdomain congestion. Congratulations to all! (Curiously, Alex was the first person to register for the conference...did he know?!?)

October 8— Alumna Ranjita Bhagwan and her co-authors at Microsoft Research India won a Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award for their OSDI 2018 paper, "Orca: Differential Bug Localization in Large-Scale Services". Congratulations, Ranjita!

July 27— Congratulations to Joe DeBlasio, who successfully defended his dissertation today on "Countering Financially-Motivated Malicious Actors on the Internet"! At the end of summer Joe will join the ever-growing UCSD contingent at Google.

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Recent Publications

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, 2020.

Expanding Across Time to Deliver Bandwidth Efficiency and Low Latency, William M. Mellette, Rajdeep Das, Yib 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.

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.

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.

SparSDR: Sparsity-proportional Backhaul and Compute for SDRs, Moein Khazraee, Yeswanth Guddeti, Sam Crow, Alex C. Snoeren, Kirill Levchenko, Dinesh Bharadia, and Aaron Schulman, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Mobile Systems, Appliations and Services (MobiSys), Seoul, Korea, June 2019.

Web Feature Deprecation: A Case Study for Chrome, Ariana Mirian, Nikunj Bhagat, Caitlin Sadowski, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE (SEIP) 2019, Montréal, QC, Canada, May 2019.

Hack for Hire: Exploring the Emerging Market for Account Hijacking, Ariana Mirian, Joe DeBlasio, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Kurt Thomas, Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), San Francisco, CA, May 2019.

How to Find Correlated Internet Failures, Ramakrishna Padmanabhan, Aaron Schulman, Alberto Dainotti, Dave Levin, and Neil Spring, Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Puerto Varas, Chile, March 2019.

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