Recipient of the NSDI Test of Time Award; presented papers and gave talks at top conferences like SOSP, Sigcomm; supervised several PhD students who have gone on to careers at places like Microsoft, MPI-SWS, etc.
Research Experience
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research; General Chair for SoCC'2020; PC co-chair for HotNets 2019; spent time working with Flowtune; involved in multiple research projects, including collaborations with Microsoft, Alibaba, etc.
Background
Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of Brown University. His work focuses on distributed systems, networking, and operating systems, particularly interested in building, operating, and diagnosing large-scale Internet systems; as well as networking and power management in embedded distributed systems such as sensor networks.
Miscellany
Email: rfonseca@cs.brown.edu; Office: 329, CIT Building, by appointment; Phone: 401-863-6533 (voice) 401-863-7657 (fax); CV available for download from personal website.