Princeton University, Network Systems Group – Research Assistant

2006-2011

• Proved the necessary and sufficient conditions of convergence of the BGP protocol.
• Used optimization theory to design several multipath routing protocols that improve network performance and simplify network management.
• Designed a novel routing scheme that secures interdomain routing in the Internet and allows incremental deployment in practice.

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center – Research Intern

Summer 2010

• Designed a quantum error correcting code that only requires two-qubuit nearest-neighbor measurements for error correction.
• Developed and evaluated a decoding algorithm that has a threshold against a depolarizing noise of 2%.

AT&T Labs, Inc. – Research Intern

Summer 2009

Summer 2008

• Developed a new simple routing algorithm resilient to network failures.
• Performed theoretical analysis as well as experimental evaluation of the algorithm.
• Performed large-scale experiments with real topology, traffic, and failure data from AT&T.

FastSoft, Inc. – Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2006

• Implemented and tested key features of a proprietary WAN acceleration product in the Linux kernel.
• Conducted performance testing and benchmarking of the device on a testbed and on the Internet.

Caltech – Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Named Arthur Rock SURF Fellow

Summer 2005

Summer 2004

• Demonstrated how TCP can achieve both max-min fairness and rapid convergence.
• Implemented and optimized the new TCP protocol, TCP MaxNet, in the Linux kernel.
• Evaluated performance of the protocol on a WAN testbed and compared performance with other TCP protocols.

Caltech, Networking Laboratory – Research Assistant

Fall 2004

• Developed a set of automated performance measurement tools.
• Compared performance of various TCPs, including experimental versions of TCP FAST.