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 served as the
chair of ACM SIGCOMM from
2003 to 2007, and has served on the ACM Council and the Board of
Directors of the Computing Research Association. 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 University of 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
virtualized network infrastructures,
enterprise network architectures,
scalable Internet routing protocols,
traffic-management protocols from optimization theory,
secure interdomain routing and forwarding,
network-wide control plane,
traffic measurement and
anomaly detection,
theoretical models of interdomain
routing,
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. On a related note, I had the pleasure of
giving an talk on "Building a Strong
Foundation for a Future Internet" (and short
write-up) at STOC'08.
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
Post-docs
Graduate student alumni
- Haakon Ringberg,
PhD summer 2009, joining Google NYC in August 2009
(Thesis: "Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Network Anomaly Dectection"
[thesis,
slides])
- Elliott Karpilovsky,
PhD summer 2009, joining Google in summer 2009 (Thesis: "Reducing Memory Requirements for Routing Protocols")
- Changhoon Kim,
PhD summer 2009, joining Microsoft Azure group in July 2009
(Thesis: "Scalable and Efficient Self-Configuring
Networks" [thesis,
slides])
- Yi Wang,
PhD spring 2009, joining Google in July 2009
(Thesis: "A Principled Approach to Managing Routing
in Large ISP Networks" [thesis,
slides])
- Jiayue He, PhD spring 2008, joined McKinsey in August 2008
(Thesis: "Rethinking Traffic Management: Design of Optimizable
Networks" [thesis,
slides],
co-advised with Mung Chiang)
- Wen Xu,
joined Google in July 2006
Post-doc alumni
- Rui Zhang-Shen,
PhD Stanford 2007,
post-doc 2007-2009, joining Google NYC
- Matthew Caesar,
PhD UC Berkeley 2007,
post-doc 2007-2008 academic year, now a professor at UIUC
- Ioannis Avramopoulos, PhD Princeton 2006, post-doc 2006-2008,
now a researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
- Nick Feamster,
PhD MIT 2005, post-doc fall 2005, now a professor at Georgia Tech