DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Systems and Networks Research Group
Faculty
| Mark Handley completed his PhD at UCL, and later returned in 2003 as Professor of Networked Systems. He also holds a Royal Society — Wolfson Research Merit award. His research interests include Internet architecture, congestion control, and routing. He is very active in the area of Internet Standards, and is the author of 29 RFCs. |
| Brad Karp, head of the Networks Research Group. Brad joined UCL in 2005, where he is Reader in Computer Systems and Networks, and holds a Royal Society – Wolfson Research Merit award. He completed his PhD at Harvard in 2000, and has worked at ICIR, Intel Research Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon. His research interests include wireless networks, geographic routing systems, large-scale distributed systems, and network and computer system security. |
| Kyle Jamieson joined UCL in 2008, after completing his PhD at MIT. He is Lecturer in Networked Systems. He research interest is wireless communication, and in particular bridging the gap between physical-layer work on digital communications and network-layer work on protocols. |
| Peter Kirstein became Professor of Computer Communications Systems at UCL in 1970, and brought the first Internet link to Europe in 1973. He was awarded the ACM SIGCOMM Award and the IEE Senior Award in 1999, and the Internet Society's Postel Award in 2003. He works on putting together and running large-scale international network-related projects involving the deployment of networked applications. |
| Steve Hailes is Professor of Wireless Systems. He completed his PhD at Cambridge. His current research interests include ad hoc systems, pervasive/ambient computing environments, and systems security. |
| Shi Zhou (周实) joined the computer science department in 2009. He is Lecturer in Complex Networks and holds a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellowship. He completed his PhD in 2004 at Queen Mary. His research is in modeling the structure and dynamics of complex networks, with particular emphasis on the Internet and the web. |
Research staff
Lawrence Cheng is
a research fellow. His research interests lie in the area of wireless
ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, P2P networks, distributed systems,
and more. He joined the Systems and Network Research Group in Jan 2007, and
is working on the SESAME project.
Piers
O'Hanlon is a research fellow. His interests are in the creation
and operation of real-time congestion controlled networked multimedia
systems, over IPv4 and IPv6 networks. He has worked on the
UCL multimedia
tools providing various enhancements, support and new features. He
is also involved with IPv6 based Grid and VoIP systems, and is a
contributor to the IETF. He is currently managing the AVATS project,
which is providing for support and development of the media tools.
Socrates Varakliotis
is a research fellow. His
research interests lie in the area of 3-D mesh coding and streaming of
QoS-enabled wireframe animations over the Internet. In addition, he's
interested in redundand code optimisations and rate control, and their
interaction with three-dimensional adaptive graphics. He also
investigates metrics that quantify the quality of streamed animations.
Research students
Anil Bawa-Cavia is a research student. He is working on the EPSRC
project SCALE (Small Changes Lead To Large Effects): Changing Energy
Costs in Transport and Location Policy.
Vasileios Giotsas is a research student. He is working on modelling
communications and information networks, such as the Internet and
online social media networks.
Nikola Gvozdiev is a research student.
Georgios Nikolaidis is a research student. He is currently working on interference
in wireless networks and his research interests revolve around networks,
especially wireless communications and routing, operating systems and distributed systems and algorithms.
Christopher Pluntke
is a research student. He is working on scheduling algorithms for all-optical
networks. He is jointly supervised by Damon Wischik and Polina Bayvel from the Electrical Engineering
department. He is currently on an internship at Bell Labs.
Lynne Salameh is a research student.
Michael
Rogers is a research student. He interested in
censorship-resistant communication and unmanaged networks (eg
peer-to-peer and ad hoc mobile networks). In networks with open
membership and no central administrative authority, security involves
questions of trust between participants, and performance relies on
protocols that reward co-operative behaviour.
Jie Xiong is a research student. His main interests are in the
cross layer design of wireless networks
and in multi-antenna (antenna array) systems.
Astrit Zhushi is a research student.
Former students
Torsten Ackemann
was a research student.
His main interests are in area of peer-to-peer networks and
other peer-oriented networks and distributed systems such as grids,
overlay networks, and mobile ad-hoc networks. Specifically, he is
interested in how to design these systems so as to maximize their
flexibility, performance and reliability by providing incentives
for cooperation between the nodes of the network.
Torsten is also a member of the Software Systems Engineering Group, and is supervised by Dr. Wolfgang Emmerich.
Mohamed Ahmed
is a research student. His interests lie
broadly within AI and security. He is looking
at pervasive computing environments and the uncertainties introduced by the
increased scale, the heterogeneity of devices and services and mobility of
users. Specifically his work focuses on adapting the traditional models of
trust and assurance to be more dynamic and adaptive in prescribing rights to
users and be more proactive in response to anomalies. He is involved in the
MARS project, his PhD
research is funded by the EPSRC through an Industrial Case with BTexact, and
is supervised by Dr. Stephen Hailes.
Saleem Bhatti is a Professor at the School
of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. Saleem holds a
B.Eng.(Hons), in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, an
M.Sc.(Distinction) in Data Communication Networks and Distributed
Systems, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from UCL.
Andrea Bittau
completed a PhD on operating system primitives for providing isolation of untrusted code in legacy networking applications.
He is currently doing a postdoc
in the Secure Computer Systems group at Stanford.
Bob Briscoe
completed his PhD on an Internet architecture for explicit feedback of congestion notification,
and traffic policing. He also
directs the research programme of BT's Networks
Research Centre and leads BT's Future Communications Architecture
programme. He initiated the Communications Research Network (CRN) in which he
contributes mostly to the working groups in the Internet architecture,
broadband, security & privacy and spectrum-trading related areas.
Soo-Hyun
Choi completed a PhD on the design and development of an Internet Congestion Control
Protocol for Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Streaming
Applications. He is currently working for Samsung, based in Korea.
Jon
Crowcroft is Marconi Professor of Communications at Cambridge. He
received the ACM Sigcomm Award in 2009 or his pioneering contributions
to multimedia and group communications.
James
Cruise was supervised by Damon Wischik during his PhD, and was based in Cambridge. He is now a research fellow at Bristol University maths department, supported by a fellowship from the Heilbronn Institute.
Paul
Dourish is Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of
Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California,
Irvine.
Paul Francis is the Director of Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Prior to this be worked at Bellcore, the ATT Centre for Internet Research in Berkeley, NTT, and was an Associate Professor at Cornell University.
Adam Greenhalgh is a
researcher at Cisco.
His research interests lie in the area of mobile
networking particularly using routing in Ad Hoc networks to conserve
power in low power radio systems. His PhD research was funded by the
EPSRC through an Industrial Case with Philips Research Labs and
supervised by Steve Hailes. He also has interests in Internet Routing
and has contributed to the development of the BGP component of the
XORP Extensible Open Router Platform during an internship at
ICIR.
Tristan Henderson is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews.
Felipe Huici
completed his PhD in Distributed Denial of Service defense, and is now working for NEC research in Heidelberg.
Sheng Jiang is works for the Networking Research Department at Huawei in Beijing.
Isidor Kouvelas is a Senior Engineer at Cisco, where he works on BGP Routing in IOS.
Konstantina
(Dina) Papagiannaki is a research scientist Telefonica. Previously she was a research scientish at Intel Labs
Pittsburgh and held an adjunct faculty position in the Computer
Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
She received the ACM Sigcomm rising star award 2008.
Costin
Raiciu is a Lecturer at Politehnica University of Bucharest. His main research interests are
distributed computing, networking and security. His thesis work was on
large scale, content-based dissemination of RSS feeds.
He is currently involved in the Trilogy project, working on multipath congestion control.
Daniele Quercia
completed his PhD on how mobile devices can share resources in the
presence of untrustworthy devices. He is is now a postdoctoral research
fellow at MIT, where he is studying social networks in a city context.
Ian Wakeman is now Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex.