Research Assistant – Network Systems Group, Princeton University

Supervisor: Jennifer Rexford

Fall 2006 - present

• Worked on projects spanning network management, congestion control, traffic engineering and BGP security.
• Developed skills in optimization theory and gained practical experience with protocol implementation and simulation.

Software Engineer Intern, FastSoft, Inc.

Summer 2006

• Contributed several features to a new WAN acceleration product.
• Conducted performance testing on a testbed as well as on the Internet.

SURF – Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Caltech

Named Arthur Rock SURF Fellow

Supervisor: Steven Low

Summer 2005

• Implemented and optimized a new TCP protocol, TCP MaxNet, in the Linux kernel.
• Evaluated performance of the protocol on the WAN in Lab and provided performance comparisons to other TCP protocols.
• TCP MaxNet achieved max-min fairness and exceptional performance in high loss environments.

Research Assistant – Networking Laboratory, Caltech

Supervisor: Steven Low

Fall 2004

• Developed a set of tools to automate processing of network performance measurements.
• Researched explicit feedback congestion signaling in TCP.

SURF – Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Caltech

Supervisor: Steven Low

Summer 2004

• Developed an automated system to assess performance of TCP in the Internet.
• Compared performance of TCP FAST and TCP Reno.