I am a principal research scientist with Akamai Technologies. My current research centers around developing data-driven approaches to measure Internet reliability, resilience, and security. I regularly mine massive (petabyte-scale) datasets to identify nascent Internet threats and their manifestiation, as well as to distill insights about the Internet and its structure.
I have held positions as a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Advanced Network Architecture group between 2019-2021, and as a Postdoc Researcher from 2017 to 2019. I earned my PhD from TU Berlin in 2017, advised by Anja Feldmann – proof picture available. Earlier, I spent summers as a Research Intern at Akamai (2015) and as a Visiting Researcher at ICSI in Berkeley (2013, 2014).
I am broadly interested in methods to mine and understand data at scale with an emphasis on measurements assessing structure, performance, and security of the Internet. In my PhD work I explored the phenomenon of IPv4 address space exhaustion and its consequences for the Internet and its stakeholders.
My work has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at ACM IMC 2016, a Distinguished Paper Award at ACM IMC 2019, two IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes in 2017 and 2019, and a “Best of CCR” selection in 2015.
I taught both undergraduate as well as graduate computer science courses as Teaching Assistant (TA). During my time as PhD candidate I organized and managed TAs for large introductory computer science classes. I also co-supervised MSc/BSc theses.
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