Martin Suchara

Princeton University

Department of Computer Science

35 Olden St, Princeton, NJ 08540

I am a fourth year graduate student at Princeton University. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Jennifer Rexford in the Computer Science Department. I am currently investigating convergence properties of the BGP protocol and the implications on the stability of routing in the Internet. Some of my earlier research at Princeton combines optimization theory and multipath routing to improve performance, security and reliability of computer networks.

I have been 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 have worked with 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.