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Institute Affiliations:
Center for Networked Systems
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Contact Information:
Phone:
858-534-4614
Email:
vahdat@cs.ucsd.edu
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| | Amin Vahdat - Associate Professor
Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Internet Security, and
Mobile/Wireless Systems.
Professor Amin Vahdat's research focuses on building scalable, reliable, and secure Internet systems. Vahdat is investigating how
systems can self-organize and dynamically react to the changing characteristics of the global network to achieve peak performance and availability.
Vahdat's thesis work on WebOS laid the framework for an environment that supports developing, deploying, and managing global-scale distributed systems. He
has written on flexibly maintaining data accuracy in the face of faulty and congestion-prone networks and accurate emulation of wide-area networks. In his
work on operating systems for mobile computing, Vahdat has investigated new approaches to designing computer architectures and software with power as a
primary measure of performance. With his colleagues, he has designed a variant of Linux, called ECOSystem, that uses energy as the common currency for
allocating all system resources to competing applications. His current research investigates programming language support for networked systems, models for
network topology, next-generation Internet architectures in the context of the PlanetLab wide-area testbed, and tools for correctness checking and
performance debugging of distributed systems.
Capsule Bio:
Amin Vahdat joined the Jacobs School faculty in the 2003-04 academic year. He completed his undergraduate and graduate work at UC
Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998. Before completing his Ph.D., Vahdat worked as a research associate at the University of
Washington. He was on the faculty of Duke University, first as an Assistant Professor then as an Associate Professor. Vahdat is a recipient of the Alfred P.
Sloan Fellowship (2003), the David and Janet Vaughn University Teaching Award (2003), an IBM Faculty Partnership Award (2002-03), and an NSF CAREER Award
(2000). In 2003, he co-founded the USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. He has published extensively, with more than 50
publications appearing in leading journals and conferences.
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