Sylvia Ratnasamy

Biography

Sylvia Ratnasamy is an assistant professor in computer science at UC Berkeley and a networking researcher at ICSI. She received her PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in 2002. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was a senior research scientist at Intel, where her work focused on the design and implementation of energy-efficient and programmable networks. She is a recipient of the ACM SIGCOMM test-of-time award (2011), the ACM SIGOCMM rising star award (2011), the Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship (2011), and the Yahoo ACE award.

Research Interest

Her research interests range from fundamental architectural questions, new forwarding mechanisms and novel management approaches to network defenses, cybercrime, troubleshooting, and measurement and characterization.