Vivek Pai has worked in numerous areas of server design and performance, from the depths of optimizing TCP checksum performance and eliminating buffer copying, all the way up to designing scalable content delivery infrastructures. In the middle, he has worked on improving OS performance for server applications, designing software architectures for high-performance servers, and developing intelligent server clustering algorithms. He co-founded iMimic Networking, where he helped architect and develop the fastest Web proxy server in the world. iMimic was acquired by Ironport Systems, which was subsequently acquired by Cisco. He also co-founded CoBlitz LLC, developing licensed content delivery networks, which was later acquired by Verivue, and subsequently by Akamai. As a community service, he has also developed a new plagiarism detector for programming assignments.

My current PhD-track students:
Sharvanath Pathak

My former students:
Anirudh Badam, PhD, now at Microsoft Research Redmond
Wonho Kim, PhD, now at Facebook
Sunghwan Ihm, PhD, now at Google
Michael Golightly, now at Rovi
Lindsey Poole, now at Amazon
KyoungSoo Park, PhD, now at KAIST
Limin Wang, PhD (shared with Larry Peterson), now at AT&T
Yaoping Ruan, PhD, now at IBM TJ Watson

Other students I've worked with:
Ming Zhang, PhD (advised by Randy Wang), now at Microsoft Research Redmond