Ramakrishnan (Ram) Durairajan is an Assistant Professor and a Ripple Fellow in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Oregon. Ram co-directs the Oregon Networking Research Group (ONRG) with his colleague Prof. Rejaie. Ram earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and his B.Tech. in Information Technology from the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Anna University. Ram's research has been recognized with NSF CRII award, Ripple faculty fellowship, UO faculty research award, best paper awards from ACM CoNEXT and ACM SIGCOMM GAIA, and has been covered in several fora (NYTimes, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Boston Globe, Gizmodo, Mashable, among others). In addition, his research on Internet topology has been named as "One of the 100 Greatest Innovations" and has won a number of awards including UW-Madison CS Department "Graduate Research Award" for best dissertation research in 2018 and the "Best of What's New" (in security category) by the Popular Science Magazine in 2017.
Recent Highlights
- We are looking for motivated students to work with us at ONRG. For more information, please see here and here. Feel free to drop me an email with your CV.
- January, 2021: Excited to present the challenges in using ML for networking research at NSF WOMBIR 2021.
- 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.!