Systems Research Group – NetOS

People

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This page lists the current and past members of the NetOS group.

Lecturers

Jon Crowcroft Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. He worked on Internet support for multimedia communications for two decades. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic management, and the design of useful end-to-end protocols. Nowadays, he works on mobile, opportunistic, social, low energy, privacy preserving systems.	(7)63633 | FN13
David Greaves David Greaves is a Senior University Lecturer undertaking research in system specification with emphasis on interconnection, networking and component assembly. He has worked on tools for hardware RTL synthesis using model checkers and automated provers and is now applying these techniques to more general software systems.	(3)34636 | FN12
Tim Griffin Timothy Griffin has been a University Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory since January 2005. Previously Tim had been a researcher with Intel Research, AT&T Research, and Bell Laboratories. Tim's research is currently focused on applying rigorous modelling and analysis methods to problems of network design and network protocol design, especially Internet routing protocols.	(3)34431 | FE25
S. Keshav S. Keshav is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. Before joining Cambridge, he was a Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. His current research is to use techniques and technologies from computer science to encourage the adoption of renewable energy and to reduce the carbon footprint of legacy systems. A recent focus is on blockchains for transactive energy.	(7)67789 | FN04
Ian Leslie Ian Leslie is a Professor in the Computer Laboratory and was Head of Department from 1999 until 2004. His main interests are in operating systems and networks. His PhD, obtained in the Laboratory in 1983, was concerned with high capacity wide area networks. His approach to his research is experimental, and he has been involved in many collaborations which have built real systems, the most recent of which are the Nemesis operating system and the Tempest networking environment.	(3)34658 | FN16
Ian Lewis Ian Lewis is Director of the Adaptive Cities Programme in the Computer Laboratory. His research interests are the real-time collection and analysis of urban sensor data and the evolution of the intelligent Future City. Research themes include sensor networks, intelligent sensor design, real-time processing, prediction, planning and privacy. His PhD, from the Lab, was concerned with robust distributed parallel AI.	(3)31859 | FE11
Anil Madhavapeddy Anil Madhavapeddy is a University Lecturer and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His research interests are at the intersection of operating systems and programming languages, and he runs the OCaml Labs initiative across the Systems Research Group and Programming Languages and Semantics group. He is an active open-source developer, most recently on the MirageOS unikernel, the Xen hypervisor, and the OCaml programming language.	(7)63611 | FW16
Cecilia Mascolo Cecilia Mascolo is a Professor of Mobile Systems and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her research interests are in the areas of mobility modelling and mobile data analytics, mobile systems, ubiquitous computing and sensing.	(7)63640 | FN08
Andrew Moore In 2007, Andrew moved back to the Computer Laboratory. Interests have remained focused for the last 20 years on mechanism and applications of network monitoring. In recent years network traffic identification, specifically application identification, has been a primary interest. Recently networking interests have tended to applying novel techniques, mostly drawn from the machine-learning community, and applying these to problems in the network-traffic domain. Andrew also has a keen interest in small-system optical networks (optical networks on the 100, 10, 1 meter scale, e.g., optical PCI buses.	(7)63446 | FW16
Richard Mortier Richard Mortier returned to the Computer Laboratory in 2015, having spent time at Sprint ATL, Microsoft Research, Vipadia Limited and Horizon Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham. He is now Reader in Computing & Human-Data Interaction, interested in the intersection of systems and HCI.	(3)34419 | FN17
Robert Watson Robert is a Senior Lecturer in Systems, Security, and Architecture at the Computer Laboratory. He leads several cross-layer research projects spanning computer architecture, compilers, program analysis, program transformation, operating systems, local and distributed tracing, networking, and security. His current research looks at clean-slate CPU/software for security (the CHERI Instruction-Set Architecture), software analysis and transformation, and network-stack performance and tracing. Past work includes the Capsicum capability system and TrustedBSD MAC Framework, a widely deployed OS access-control extensibility framework (now found in FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Apple iOS, Junos, and other products). Robert has strong interests in open source, and is a member of the FreeBSD Foundation board of directors. He teaches the undergraduate Part I.B course Concurrent and Distributed Systems, the MPhil course Advanced Operating Systems, and co-teaches the MPhil courses Computer Security: Principles and Foundations and Computer Security: Current Research and Applications.	(7)63569 | GE13

Researchers

Gianni Antichi Gianni Antichi is a Senior Research Associate currently interested in SDN network architectures, network monitoring and measurements, hardware accelerated networking systems, packet classification and interdomain routing. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in telecommunications engineering and the PhD degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa in 2005, 2007, and 2011, respectively.	(7)63670 | SC12
Poonam Yadav Poonam Yadav is a Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory. She has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London. Her research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), Distributed and Social Computing, and Privacy and Security in IoTs. Poonam is currently working on the Databox project. She supervises following courses: Principle of Communication and Complexity Theory.	(7)63689 | FN07
Eiko Yoneki Eiko is an EPSRC Research Fellow, working on the following projects: DDDN: Data Driven Declarative Networking with MSR, Network Modelling for Epidemiology (EPSRC), and H2020 projects. Her group focuses on Data Centric Systems and Networking ranging from data-flow programming to large scale graph processing. She has received a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge in 2007. Previously, she has spent several years with IBM (US, Japan, Italy and UK) and worked on various networking products.	(7)63743 | FE02
Noa Zilberman Noa is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Computer Laboratory, where she works on reconfigurable network systems and high-performance networking and computing architectures. Other research interests include interconnect, network measurements and Internet topology. Previously, Noa had spent 15 years in industry, last as a Senior Principal chip architect at Broadcom's Network Switching group. She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.	(3)34606 | SC32

Students

Anwaar Ali	Neelakandan Manihatty Bojan	Marco Caballero	Mario Cekic
Valentin Dalibard	Aisha El-Safty	Salvator Galea	Zafar Gilani
Heidi Howard	Desi Hristova	Ilias Marinos	David Miller
Toby Moncaster	Myoung Jin Nam	Karthik Nilakant	Diana Andreea Popescu
Michael Schaarschmidt	Malcolm Scott	Domagoj Stolfa	Bjoern A. Zeeb
Jingyun Zhang	Jianxin Zhao

Visitors

Tim Harris Tim leads the Oracle Labs group in Cambridge. His research interests include parallel programming, OS/runtime-system interaction, and opportunities for specialized architecture support for particular workloads. Right now he is looking at OS and VM support for distributed runtime systems—particularly in the setting of distributed graph algorithms running on clusters.
Brent Lagesse Brent is visiting the University of Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Washington Bothell. His research is focused on security and privacy in sensor-rich, intelligent environments.
Liang Wang Liang was a Senior Research Associate in the Computer Laboratory, affiliated with Queens' College. He is now a visiting researcher focusing on scientific computing, parallel and distributed computing, applied machine learning.

Past Members

Past members and visitors of the NetOS group, as far back as 1995. This list may well be neither complete nor up-to-date, so please contact us if you wish to add yourself or update your link!