Recipient of multiple awards including Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award, Google Research Scholar Award, NSF CAREER Award, and others; published significant papers such as 'Assessing the Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing Internet Access Inequities in the US', 'AI/ML for Network Security: The Emperor has no Clothes', etc.
Research Experience
Co-directs the Systems and Networking Lab (SNL) at UCSB, focusing on developing production-ready ML artifacts for self-driving networks and enabling data-driven policymaking to ensure performant and affordable connectivity.
Education
Ph.D. from Princeton University, with a doctoral dissertation titled 'Flexible and Scalable Systems for Network Management' which received an ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention.
Background
Associate Professor in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, Faculty Scientist at Berkeley Lab, and Marjorie & Charles Benton Opportunity Fund Fellow at Benton Institute. His research focuses on addressing digital inequity, ensuring secure, performant, and affordable internet connectivity.
Miscellany
Organized various workshops and tutorials on topics related to digital equity and self-driving networks, participated in several NSF workshops.