Martin Suchara

Princeton University

Department of Computer Science

35 Olden St, Princeton, NJ 08540

I received my PhD from Princeton University where I was advised by Professor Jennifer Rexford. I defended my thesis on Reliable Internet Routing on June 15th, 2011. A major part of my thesis research focused on proving the convergence properties of the BGP protocol and the implications on the stability of routing in the Internet. In addition, I studied the performance, security and reliability of computer networks using rigorous techniques such as optimization theory.

I was working in close collaboration with Robert Doverspike, David Johnson, and Dahai Xu at AT&T Labs, Inc., as well as with Alex Fabrikant, Ioannis Avramopoulos, and Jiayue He at Princeton. Two undergraduate students that I co-supervised at Princeton completed projects that use optimization theory to improve traffic delivery and reduce energy consumption of computer networks.

I was an undergraduate student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA between 2003 and 2006. I was a member of Netlab, Caltech’s networking research group headed by Professor Steven Low. My research centered on congestion control. Lachlan Andrew, Ryan Witt, Bartek Wydrowski and I developed and implemented a new TCP protocol called TCP MaxNet. In addition to my research at Netlab, I was studying approximation algorithms in computational geometry, and became acquainted with both theoretical and analytic research.