Scott Shenker
Director
Research Initiatives
International Computer Science Institute
United States of America
Biography
Scott Shenker is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley. He is also the chief scientist and the leader of the New Initiatives Group at ICSI, where he was a founding member of the ICSI Center for Internet Research. He received his doctorate in physics in 1983 from the University of Chicago, and was later awarded an honorary doctorate from the same university in recognition of his contributions to Internet architecture. He has received both the SIGCOMM and IEEE Internet awards. Along with Martin Casado and Nick McKeown, he has been a leader in the movement toward Software-Defined Networking. In terms of commercial activities, he was co-founder (with Casado and McKeown), founding CEO, and chief scientist of Nicira.
Research Interest
Topics including genomics, brain networks, and computer architecture. Other questions include privacy concerns related to advanced genetic sequencing.
Publications
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Friedman E, Racz MZ, Shenker S. 2015. Dynamic Budget-Constrained Pricing in the Cloud.
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Panda A, Han S, Walls M, Ratnasamy S, Shenker S. 2016. NetBricks: Taking the V out of NFV. Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’16).
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McCauley J, Zhao M, Jackson EJ, Raghavan B, Ratnasamy S, Shenker S. 2016. The Deforestation of L2.
