News
2026
July 2026
Our work on integrating AI into computing curriculum will appear in SIGCOMM workshop!
June 2026
Excited to receive an NSF CICI TCR grant to work on securing campus CI and REN workflows. Thanks NSF!
February 2026
Our work on mapping traceroutes to submarine cables will appear in IMC 2026!
2025
December 2025
Our work on Internet invariants will appear in NINeS 2026! Congrats Chris!
November 2025
Our work on explainable classifiers for different networking problems will appear in SIGKDD 2026! Congrats Riya!
September 2025
Our papers entitled "Sustainability or Survivability? Eliminating the Need to Choose in LEO Satellite Constellations" will appear in HotNets 2025. Congrats Chris!
September 2025
Our work on stateful triage for securing wildfire infrastructure at the edge will appear in IEEE MILCOM workshop! Congrats River and collaborators.
August 2025
Our work on contrastive learning approach to submarine network cartography will appear in IMC 2025 Student Workshop! Congrats Riya and collaborators!
August 2025
Our work on multi-cloud network simulator will appear in MASCOTS! Congrats Joseph!
June 2025
Two papers and two extended abstracts will appear in three different SIGCOMM workshops (NAIC, QuNet, LEO-NET) and SIGCOMM shorts session. Congrats to Chris (2x) and collaborators!
May 2025
Our work on redesiging micro-DCs will appear in HotStorage workshop! Congrats River!
April 2025
Our work on gaining operator's trust using NetExplainer will appear in SIAM data mining workshop. Congrats Riya!
March 2025
Mana Atarod successfully defended her M.S. thesis. Congrats Mana!
February 2025
Riya Ponraj wins the ISOC Pulse Fellowship! Congrats Riya!
January 2025
Our work on measuring network performance in the wild using ads will appear in WWW 2025!
2024
October 2024
Our work on redesiging micro-DCs for natural and climate change-induced hazards will appear in HotInfra workshop! Congrats River!
October 2024
Our work on bringing an awareness of submarine underlays to multi-cloud overlays will appear in IEEE CloudNet! Congrats Joseph!
September 2024
Our work on hybrid explainability for ML4Nets will appear in PACMI workshop! Congrats Abdu and Hannah!
Jun 2024
I am currently on sabbatical serving as a chief scientist at Link Oregon .
May 2024
Many congrats to my student, Chris, who successfully defended his dissertation on traffic structure-aware network telemetry systems! Congrats Dr. Misa!
April 2024
Our work on optics-aware defenses against terabit DDoS attacks will appear in IEEE TDSC. Congrats Matt!
March 2024
Our work on harderning network infrastructures against climate change risks featured in ISOC Pulse blog .
March 2024
Congrats to Aziz and Abdu for successfully defending their M.S. thesis!
March 2024
Excited to share that our work on leveraging prefix structure to detect volumetric DDoS attack signatures will appear in Oakland '24. Congrats Chris!
March 2024
Many congrats to my student, Matthew, who successfully defended his dissertation on optical topology programming! Congrats Dr. Nance-Hall!
February 2024
Our work on hazard-proofing hazard monitoring featured in CAS communications.
January 2024
Thrilled to share that DynATOS+ will appear in IEEE/ACM ToN Journal. Congrats Chris!
2023
December 2023
Our work on enhancing the resiliency of the Internet infrastructures using LEO satellites will appear in PAM! Congrats to all student authors.
November 2023
Our work on scaling traffic engineering using optical topology programming will appear in IEEE TNSM Journal. Congrats Matt!
October 2023
Our work on location-oriented topology design for LEO satellites will appear in ACM Mobicom workshop on LEO Networking and Communication.
September 2023
Excited to receive an NSF CICI TCR grant to work on monitoring hazard CI and workflows. Thanks NSF!
July 2023
Our work on eBPF-based framework for active and passive measurements will appear in ACM SIGCOMM eBPF and Kernel Extensions 2023!
June 2023
Promoted to associate professor with indefinite tenure!
May 2023
Our work on multi-cloud overlays will appear in IEEE CLOUD! Congrats Bahador!
February 2023
Excited to organize the ACM SIGMETRICS workshop on self-driving networks with Arpit Gupta and Walter Willinger!
2022
October 2022
Our multi-task learning effort is highlighted in JSAC blog !
August 2022
Recent NSF award on dataplane telemetry highlighted in Around the O!
July 2022
Excited to receive an NSF CNS medium grant to work on runtime dataplane telemetry. Thanks NSF!
May 2022
Congrats to Matt Hall for winning the competitive UO Dissertation Research Fellowship !
April 2022
Jared's work on multi-task learning for network measurements will appear in IEEE JSAC! Congrats Jared!
April 2022
A couple of ongoing projects are highlighted in Oregon Quarterly .
March 2022
NSF CAREER award have been featured in UO CIS as well as Around the O .
February 2022
Excited to receive the NSF CAREER Award. Thanks NSF!
January 2022
Excited to receive an Open Oregon Educational Resources grant with Michal and Boyana!
January 2022
Co-chairing IEEE CloudNet 2022 with Leo Linguaglossa!
2021
November 2021
Recent awards have been featured in UO CIS as well as Around the O .
October 2021
Juno's research featured in CRA Conquer.
September 2021
Excited to lead an NSF CC*-Integration large project with collaborators at UO, UCSB, and Niksun, Inc. Thanks NSF!
September 2021
Our work on runtime programmable telemetry will appear in IEEE Network magazine! Congrats Chris!
August 2021
Excited to lead an NSF SaTC medium project with collaborators at CMU and BU. Thanks NSF!
June 2021
Our work on dynamic scheduling of approximate telemetry queries will appear in Usenix NSDI 2022! Congrats Chris!
June 2021
Our work on the feasibility of optical topology programming will appear in ACM SIGCOMM OptSys 2021! Congrats Matt and collaborators at MIT, UW-Madison, and U. Vienna!
June 2021
Our work on high-performance in-band network measurements using eBPF will appear in TMA 2021!
May 2021
Excited to receive the ISOC research grant. Thanks ISOC!
March 2021
Our survey on reconfigurable optical networks will appear in Elsevier OSN 2021! Congrats Matt!
February 2021
Co-organizing the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Secure Programmable network INfrastructure ( SPIN ) with Yixin Sun.
January 2021
Excited to present the challenges in using ML for networking research at NSF WOMBIR 2021 .
2020
December 2020
Our inter-disciplinary work on assessing the resilience of Internet infrastructures to earthquakes will appear in PAM 2021! Congrats Juno!
December 2020
Congrats to Juno for CRA Undergraduate Researcher Award - Honarable Mention!
September 2020
Thrilled to receive faculty fellowship from Ripple, Inc.!
July 2020
Excited to organize the first (virtual) RISE (netwoRkIng SystEms) summer school with my colleague Sudarsun .
June 2020
The report on our experiences in organizing the PAM 2020 virtual conference to appear in ACM SIGCOMM CCR 2020!
May 2020
Our work on labeling networking data at scale will appear in ACM SIGCOMM NetAI 2020!
May 2020
Our work on optics-enabled extreme DDoS defense will appear in ACM SIGCOMM SPIN 2020!
April 2020
Our work on multi-resource monitoring will appear in Usenix HotStorage 2020!
April 2020
Two papers will appear in IFIP TMA'20 ! Congrats to ONRG students and collaborators!
March 2020
Successfully organized the first virtual PAM conference with my colleague Prof. Rejaie!
January 2020
Co-organizing the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Optical Systems Design ( OptSys ) with Chen Avin, Paolo Costa, George Porter, and Stefan Schmid.
2019
December 2019
Our work on comparative characterization of multi-cloud connectivity to appear in PAM 2020!
November 2019
Bahador Yeganeh successfully defended his PhD! Congrats to Dr. Yeganeh, PhD #1, who will be joining Snapchat, Inc.!
October 2019
Bokeh, a framework for obfuscating physical infrastructure maps to appear in ACM SIGSPATIAL LocalRec workshop!
September 2019
Our work on using weak supervision to denoise Internet delay measurements will appear in IEEE ICMLA'19 ! Congrats to Anirudh (my intern in the Summer of 2018)!
August 2019
Matt Hall won the Ripple fellowship. Congrats Matt!
July 2019
Our work on understanding Amazon's peering fabric will appear in ACM IMC'19 ! Congrats Bahador!
June 2019
Matt Hall won the Erwin & Gertrude Juilfs Scholarship . Congrats Matt!
June 2019
Our work on containerizing Internet measurements and managing the timezone database will appear in Applied Networking Research Workshop !
June 2019
Co-organizing a tutorial on Reconfigurable Networks ( ReNets ) with Klaus-Tycho Foerster, and Stefan Schmid.
May 2019
Nolan Rudolph won the VPRI Fellowship . Congrats Nolan!
May 2019
Excited to announce that Yamini Lakshmi Narasimhan and Shivaani Krishnakumar will be working with me at ONRG as an interns this summer!
April 2019
Excited to receive NSF CRII Award. Thanks NSF!
April 2019
Thrilled to receive UO Faculty Research Award!
April 2019
It was fun to be a judge and a problem contributor for the 23rd Annual UO Eugene Luks Programming Competition!
January 2019
Co-organizing the 1st ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Optical Systems Design ( OptSys ) with Chen Avin, Paolo Costa, Manya Ghobadi, and Stefan Schmid.
2018
October 2018
ADAPT to appear in Elsevier FGCS'19 ! We show how to use pretense theory to effectively defend attacks (e.g., DDoS, APT, etc.) in cloud platforms.
September 2018
Two posters from ONRG will appear in ACM IMC'18 . Congrats Matt and Chris!
July 2018
Our work on strategies for active IPv6 topology discovery to appear in ACM IMC'18 !
July 2018
Our work on time synchronization system for the Internet of Things to appear in the 8th ACM International Conference on the Internet of Things .
June 2018
Multiple awards won by my students at ONRG: Anisha Malynur won the J. Donald Hubbard Family Scholarship , Bahador Yeganeh won the Gurdeep Pall Graduate Fellowship , and Chris Misa won the VPRI Fellowship . Congrats Bahador, Anisha, and Chris!
June 2018
Checkout our time synchronization system for the Internet of Things .
June 2018
Excited to annouce that Anirudh Muthukumar will be working with me at ONRG as an intern this summer!
May 2018
Check out our preprint on strategies for active IPv6 topology discovery .
May 2018
Our work ( EMPol ) on using web browing logs to assess user's candidate preference to appear in ACM SIGKDD'18 !
May 2018
Our work on characterizing "The Edge" in mobile edge computing to appear in ACM MECOMM workshop co-located with ACM SIGCOMM'18 !
May 2018
Our work on climate change risks to Internet infrastructure will appear in Applied Networking Research Workshop !
May 2018
Our work ( TimeWeaver ) on using NTP to measure one-way delays between arbitrary hosts in the Internet to appear in International Teletraffic Congress !
April 2018
Excited and honored to receive UW-Madison's Graduate Research Award!
March 2018
It was fun to be a judge and a problem contributor for the 22nd Annual UO Eugene Luks Programming Competition!
March 2018
Our work on virtualizing unused optical fibers ( vFiber ) will appear in USENIX NSDI'18 as a poster. Congrats Matt!
March 2018
Our work ( Tezzeract ) on using NTP to create an Internet-wide event detection framework to appear in IFIP Networking'18 !
January 2018
Dolus to appear in ACM ICDCN'18 ! We show how to use pretense theory to effectively defend DDoS in cloud platforms.
2017
December 2017
Attended and presented our work on climate change risks to Internet infrastructure at the Dagstuhl seminar ( 17511 ).
November 2017
Our work on automatic metadata generation ( SoMeta ) in IMC'17. Source code is available here . The work is completely reproducible.
October 2017
Brainchild from my PhD ("Internet Atlas") has been named one of The 100 greatest innovations of 2017 by Popular Science.
October 2017
Excited to receive an NSF Support Grant for attending Dagstuhl seminar. Thanks NSF!