Jennifer Rexford
Provost, Professor of Computer Science, and
Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering
Princeton University
Department of Computer Science
Affiliated faculty in Center
for Information Technology Policy, Electrical Engineering,
Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics,
Princeton Environmental Institute, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Office: 3 Nassau Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: 609-258-3026 (no voicemail messages, please)
E-mail: jrex (at) princeton (dot) edu
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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
Researchers
PhD student alumni
- Yufei Zheng, PhD August 2024, joined University of Massachusetts at Amherst as a postdoc in Sepetmber 2024 (Thesis: Compact Algorithms for Measuring Network Performance
[thesis, slides])
- Mary Hogan, PhD May 2024, joined Oberlin College
as an assistant professor in summer 2024
(Thesis: Language Expressiveness Under Extreme Scarcity in Programmable Data Planes
[thesis, slides])
Xiaoqi Chen, PhD October 2023, joined VMware Research as a postdoc, joined Purdue University as an assistant professor in fall 2024
(Thesis: Designing Compact Data Structures for Network Measurement and Control
[thesis, slides])
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 in summer 2019, started in summer 2022 as an assistant professor at University of Waterloo (Thesis: Stateful Programming of High-Speed Network Hardware [thesis, slides])
Robert Harrison, PhD June 2019, joined West Point as assistant professor, now associate 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,
slides])
Naga Katta,
PhD October 2016, joined Salesforce in November 2016, joined Magnit Global in April 2023
(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 became 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, then worked at Argonne National Lab, and now works at Amazon Web Services
(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, and now works at Moloco
(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
- Hyojoon Kim, associate research scholar 2020-2023, joined University of Virginia as an assisant professor in summer 2023
- Yaxiong Xie, postdoc 2021-2022 with Kyle Jamieson, joined SUNY Buffalo as an assistant professor in August 2022
- Shir Landau Feibish, postdoc 2017-2020, joined Open University as a senior lecturer (assistant professor) in October 2020, and joins Haifa Univresity in fall 2025
- 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, then became an associate professor in 2024
- 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, and is
now a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
- 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, and now works at Timescale
- 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, assistant professor and then associate professor at SUNY Buffalo, started 2020 as associate professor at Simon Fraser University
- 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 a full 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