Jennifer Rexford
Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Affiliated faculty in Center
for Information Technology Policy, Electrical Engineering,
Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics,
Princeton Environmental Institute, and Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
35 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540-5233
Office: CS 222
Phone: 609-258-5182 (no voicemail messages, please)
Conference phone: 609-258-9330
Fax: 609-258-2016
E-mail: jrex (at) cs (dot) princeton (dot) edu
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Jennifer joined 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, see recent
talk about the book). Jennifer served as the
chair of ACM SIGCOMM from
2003 to 2007, and has served on the ACM Council, the board
of the Computing Research Association, the advisory council
of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate
at NSF, and the Computing Community Consortium. 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
The research in my group generally falls into the following main
areas:
I also have a personal interest in Internet
policy issues.
My earlier publications fall into the following main areas:
Web protocols and workloads,
video proxy services,
load-sensitive routing,
packet-scheduling architectures,
multicomputer router architectures,
and fault tolerance and parallel computing.
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.
More recently, I presented the ACM Athena Lecture on "Hitting the Nail on
the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking"
(video, slides) at SIGCOMM'17.
Students
Post-docs
PhD student alumni
- Jennifer Gossels, PhD April 2020, joined Chicago Cubs as an analyst (Thesis: Joint Optimization for Robust Network Design and Operation [thesis, slides])
- Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, PhD June 2019, joined Cornell as postdoc (Thesis: Stateful Programming of High-Speed Network Hardware [thesis, slides])
- Robert Harrison, PhD June 2019, joined West Point as assistant professor (Thesis: Scalable, Network-Wide Telemetry with Programmable Switches [thesis])
- Mojgan Ghasemi,
PhD September 2017,
joined Akamai summer 2017, joined Google fall 2020
(Thesis: Data-Driven Management of CDN Performance
[thesis,
talk])
- Naga Katta,
PhD October 2016, joining Salesforce in November 2016
(Thesis: Building Efficient and Reliable Software-Defined Networks
[thesis,
slides])
- Xin Jin, PhD June 2016,
joined UC Berkeley for a postdoc in July 2016 before starting as an assistant
professor at Johns Hopkins University in fall 2017, and becoming an associate professor at Peking University in 2021
(Thesis: Dynamic Control of Software-Defined Networks
[thesis,
slides])
- Srinivas Narayana,
PhD May 2016,
joined MIT for a postdoc in July 2016, joined Rutgers as an assistant professor in fall 2018 (Thesis: Declarative Network Path Queries
[thesis,
slides])
- Nanxi Kang,
PhD December 2015, joined Databricks in February 2016
(Thesis: Flexible Enterprise Network Management on Commodity Switches
[thesis,
slides])
- Peng Sun,
PhD May 2015, joined VMware in June 2015, joined Facebook in Seattle in August 2016
(Thesis: Integrating Network Management for Cloud Computing Services
[thesis,
slides])
- Wenjie (Joe) Jiang,
PhD February 2012, joined Google in February 2012
(Thesis: Wide-Area Traffic Management for Cloud Services
[thesis,
slides],
co-advised with Mung Chiang)
- Eric Keller,
PhD August 2011, post-doc at UPenn through summer 2012, started
as an assistant professor at University of Colorado in fall 2012,
now an associate professor at University of Colorado
(Thesis: "Refactoring Router Software to Minimize Disruption"
[thesis,
slides])
- Yaping Zhu,
PhD August 2011, joined Google in October 2011
(Thesis: "Minimizing Wide-Area Performance Disruptions in
Interdomain Routing"
[thesis,
slides])
- Minlan Yu,
PhD August 2011, started one-year post-doc at UC Berkeley in
August 2011 before joining USC as an assistant professor in
summer 2012, before joining the faculty at Yale in fall 2016, before joining the faculty at Harvard where she became an associate professor in spring 2021 (Thesis: "Scalable Management of Enterprise
and Data-Center Networks" [thesis, slides], winner of the
SIGCOMM
Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2011)
- Martin Suchara,
PhD summer 2011, started post-doc at UC Berkeley in July 2011,
joined IBM Research as a Post-doctoral Scholar in 2013, then
worked at AT&T Labs, and now is a researcher at Argonne National Lab
(Thesis: "Reliable Internet Routing"
[thesis,
slides])
- Sharon Goldberg,
PhD summer 2009, started one-year post-doc at Microsoft Research
in August 2009 before joining Boston University as an assistant
professor in August 2010, and promoted to associate professor
with tenure in April 2015
(Thesis: "Towards Securing Interdomain Routing on the Internet"
[thesis,
slides],
co-advised with Boaz Barak)
- Haakon Ringberg,
PhD summer 2009, joined Google NYC in August 2009
(Thesis: "Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Network Anomaly
Dectection"
[thesis,
slides])
- Elliott Karpilovsky,
PhD summer 2009, joined Google in summer 2009 (Thesis: "Reducing
Memory Requirements for Routing Protocols")
- Changhoon Kim,
PhD summer 2009, joined Microsoft Azure group in July 2009,
joined Barefoot Networks
in April 2014 (Thesis: "Scalable and Efficient Self-Configuring
Networks" [thesis,
slides])
- Yi Wang,
PhD spring 2009, joined Google in July 2009, joined AdChina
in April 2011, founded start-up company Liu Li Shuo
(Thesis: "A Principled Approach to Managing Routing in Large
ISP Networks" [thesis,
slides])
- Jiayue He, PhD spring 2008, joined McKinsey in August 2008, joined
early-stage start-up ezhome as senior
vice president in summer 2015
(Thesis: "Rethinking Traffic Management: Design of Optimizable
Networks" [thesis,
slides],
co-advised with Mung Chiang)
- Wen Xu, PhD summer
2009, joined Google in July 2006
(Thesis: "MIRO: Multi-path Interdomain ROuting"
[thesis,
slides])
Masters student alumni
- Mengying Pan, MSE June 2020, started PhD program at Princeton in summer 2020 (Thesis: Memory-Efficient Membership Encoding in Switches
[thesis, slides])
- Suriya Kodeswaran, MSE June 2020 (Thesis: Tracking P4 Program Execution in the Data Plane [thesis])
- Ross Teixeira, MSE June 2019, started PhD program at Princeton in fall 2019 (Thesis: SwitchScope: A View from the Inside [thesis, slides])
- Qizhe Cai, MSE June 2018, started PhD program at Cornell in fall 2018 (Thesis: Network-Wide Heavy-Hitter Detection for Real-Time Telemetry
[thesis, slides])
- Sophie Qiu, MSE June 2017, started PhD program at CMU in fall 2017
(Thesis: Streaming Data Visualization for Network Security
[thesis])
- Robert MacDavid, MSE June 2016, started PhD program at Princeton in summer 2016
- Xuan Kelvin Zou,
MA June 2015, started at Microsoft Azure in fall 2015, then at Google, and now at Byte Dance
- Michael Kranch, MSE May 2015, started as instructor at West Point
in June 2015 (Thesis: Upgrading HTTPS in Mid-Air: An Empirical
Study of Strict Transport Security and Public Key Pinning)
- Dushyant Arora, MSE May 2013, joined Arista Networks, fall 2013
(Thesis: Proactive Routing in Scalable Data Centers with PARIS
[thesis,
slides])
- Jacopo Cesareo, MSE May 2012, joined Arista Networks, fall 2012
(Thesis: Optimizing Implicit Proxy Placement to Evade Traffic
Filters)
- Dmitry Drutskoy, MSE May 2012, joined Elysium Digital in summer 2012
(Thesis: Software-Defined Network Virtualization with FlowN
[slides])
- Robert Harrison, MSE May 2011, started as instructor at West Point
in June 2011, then a PhD student at Princeton, and now a professor at West Point
(Thesis: "Frenetic: A Network Programming Language"
[thesis],
co-advised with David Walker)
- Richard Wang,
MSE May 2011, started PhD program at Carnegie Mellon in fall 2011,
completed PhD in 2016, joined Twitch in September 2016, ABB in April 2017, and Pilot AI in November 2017
(Thesis: "OpenFlow-based Load Balancing Gone Wild"
[thesis])
Post-doc alumni
- Shir Landau Feibish postdoc 2017-2020, joined Open University as a senior lecturer (assistant professor) in October 2020
- Praveen Tammana, postdoc 2018-2020, joined IIT-Hyderabad as an assistant professor in July 2020
- Ori Rottenstreich, PhD Technion 2014, postdoc 2015-2017, joined the Technion as an assistant professor
- Yaron Koral,
PhD Tel Aviv University 2013, postdoc 2014-2016, joined AT&T as a
principal inventive scientist in May 2016
- Laurent Vanbever, PhD University of Louvain 2012, postdoc 2012-2014, joined ETH as an assistant professor in January 2015, now an associate professor at ETH
- Joshua Reich,
PhD Columbia 2011, postdoc 2011-2014, joined AT&T Research, fall 2014.
- Zhenming Liu,
PhD Harvard University 2012, postdoc 2012-2014, joined Two Sigma in summer 2014, joined William and Mary as an assistant professor in fall 2016
- Theo Benson,
PhD University of Wisconsin 2012, postdoc 2012-2013, became an
Assistant Professor at Duke University in fall 2013, then became
an Assistant Professor at Brown University in fall 2017
- Erik Nordstrom,
PhD Uppsala University 2008,
post-doc 2010-2011 joint with Mike Freedman, became an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton
University 2011-2013, joined Spotify in late 2013
- Michael Schapira,
PhD Hebrew University 2008, post-doc 2010-2011, joined the faculty at
Hebrew University
- Alex Fabrikant,
PhD UC Berkeley 2008, post-doc 2008-2010 joint with theory group, joined Google Research in fall 2010
- Steven Ko, PhD
UIUC 2009, post-doc 2009-2010 joint with Mike Freedman, now an assistant professor at SUNY Buffalo
- Nate Foster,
PhD U. Penn 2009, post-doc 2009-2010 joint with David Walker, became an assistant professor at Cornell, now an associate pforessor at Cornell
- Rui Zhang-Shen, PhD Stanford 2007, post-doc 2007-2009 joint with Mung Chiang, joined Google NYC in August 2009
- Matthew Caesar,
PhD UC Berkeley 2007,
post-doc 2007-2008 academic year, became an assistant professor at UIUC in fall 2008, and is now an assosiate professor at UIUC
- Ioannis Avramopoulos, PhD Princeton 2006, post-doc 2006-2008, researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories 2008-2011
- Nick Feamster,
PhD MIT 2005, post-doc fall 2005, professor at Georgia Tech 2005-2015,
then a full professor at Princeton, and now a full professor at University of Chicago