Center for Networked Systems

Faculty

• Amin Vahdat, Director
• Anthony Acampora 
• KC Claffy
• Rene Cruz
• Alin Deutsch
• Shaya Fainman
• Tara Javidi
• Bill Lin
• Keith Marzullo
• Yannis Papakonstantinou
• George Papen
• Joseph Pasquale
• Ramesh Rao
• Tajana Šimunić Rosing
• Stefan Savage
• Hovav Shacham
• Alex C. Snoeren
• George Varghese
• Geoffrey M. Voelker

Amin Vahdat, Director

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Summary

Amin Vahdat is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego, where he is also the Director of the Center for Networked Systems.  His research focuses on system support for highly available and high performance network services. His current projects include Mace, programming language and runtime support for building large-scale networked service; ModelNet, an emulation environment for large-scale distributed systems; overlay construction for application layer multicast and peer-to-peer systems; and the implications of availability as the primary metric for network services.  He co-founded the USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).  Dr. Vahdat is a past recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Duke University David and Janet Vaughn Distinguished Teaching Award. He received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and was on the faculty at Duke University 1998-2003.