Jennifer Rexford, Professor
Department of Computer Science
Affilliated faculty in Center
for Information Technology Policy and Electrical Engineering.
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540-5233
Office: CS 306
Phone: 609-258-5182 (no voicemail messages, please)
Fax: 609-258-1771
E-mail: jrex (at) cs (dot) princeton (dot) edu
Links: teaching,
projects,
students,
publications,
resume,
short bio
Jennifer joined the Network
Systems Group of the Computer Science Department at
Princeton University in February 2005 after eight and a half years at
AT&T Research. Her
research focuses on Internet routing, network measurement, and network
management, with the larger goal of making data networks easier to
design, understand, and manage. Jennifer is co-author of the book
Web
Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and
Traffic Measurement (Addison-Wesley, May 2001) and co-editor of
She's an Engineer? Princeton Alumnae
Reflect (Princeton University, 1993). Jennifer serves as the
chair of ACM SIGCOMM, and as
a member of the CRA Board of Directors. She received her BSE degree
in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, and her
MSE and PhD degrees in computer science and electrical engineering
from the U. Michigan in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
She was the winner of ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award for outstanding
young computer professional of the year for 2004.
Teaching
Research Projects
Ongoing research projects include:
More generally, my current research interests include
network-wide control plane,
secure and robust routing,
measurement in the presence of adversaries,
troubleshooting routing problems,
Internet topology measurement,
Internet traffic engineering, IP router configuration, interdomain routing dynamics,
and Internet policy issues.
Several of these papers are surveys on the
inner workings of Internet Service Provider networks.
I also have some non-refereed position
papers online that describe the way I think about data networks.
See, for example, a recent CCR paper on
My Ten Favorite "Practical Theory" Papers.
My earlier research interests include:
Web protocols and workloads,
video proxy services,
load-sensitive routing,
packet-scheduling architectures,
multicomputer router architectures,
and fault tolerance and parallel computing.
Students
- Sharon Goldberg,
secure measurement and routing (co-advised with Boaz Barak)
- Wenjie (Joe) Jiang, peer-to-peer systems (co-advised with Mung Chiang)
- Elliott Karpilovsky,
reducing router memory requirements
- Eric Keller,
flexible packet forwarding (co-advised with Andy Bavier)
- Changhoon Kim,
scalable routing
- Haakon Ringberg,
anomaly detection (co-advised with Kai Li)
- Martin Suchara, secure routing, traffic management
- Yi Wang,
reducing management complexity for routing
- Minlan Yu, network virtualization (co-advised with Kai Li and Andy Bavier)
- Yaping Zhu, Internet routing and network virtualization
Post-docs
Alumni include
- Jiayue He
(PhD spring 2008, co-advised with Mung Chiang, on
"Rethinking traffic management: Design of optimizable
networks" [thesis,
slides]),
joining McKinsey in August 2008
- Matthew Caesar,
post-doc for 2007-2008 academic year, now a professor at UIUC
- Nick Feamster,
post-doc for fall 2005, now a professor at Georgia Tech
- Wen Xu, now at Google