Biography

Sylvia Ratnasamy is a researcher at Intel Research Berkeley where her work has focused primarily on the design and implementation of networked systems. Sylvia received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune, India in 1997. As a Ph.D. student, Sylvia also worked at ICIR, the ICSI Center for Internet Research.

Service

Program co-chair: NSDI 2011, Presto 2010

Member of the Steering Committee for ACM Sensys (Sigcomm representative)

Member of the Program Committee:
            NSDI 2010, ComsNets 2010
            SOSP 2009, HotPower 2009, Presto 2009
            NSDI 2008, Sigcomm 2008, Presto 2008
            NSDI 2007, SOSP 2007
            Sigcomm 2006, HotNets 2006, ISSS 2006
            DISC 2005
            Usenix Worlds 2004, WSNA 2004, IPTPS 2004

Publications

            Routing Tables: Is Smaller Really Much Better?
            Brighten Godfrey, Kevin Fall, Gianluca Iannaccone, Sylvia Ratnasamy
            In ACM HotNets 2009

            Rule-based Forwarding: improving the Internet's flexibility and security
            Lucian Popa, Ion Stoica, Sylvia Ratnasamy
            In ACM HotNets 2009

            awarded best paper RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism to Scale Software
             Routers
            Mihai Dobrescu and Norbert Egi, Katerina Argyraki, Byung-Gon Chun, Kevin Fall,
            Gianluca Iannaccone, Allan Knies, Maziar Manesh, Sylvia Ratnasamy
            In SOSP 2009
  
            Improved Forwarding Architecture and Resource Management for
            Multi-Core Software Routers
            Norbert Egi, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark Handley, Gianluca Iannaccone,
            Maziar Manesh, Laurent Mathy, Sylvia Ratnasamy
             In NPC (IFIP conference on Networking and Parallel Computing) 2009

Beacon-Vector Routing: Scalable Point-to-Point Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Rodrigo Fonseca, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Jerry Zhao, Cheng Tien Ee, David Culler, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
In NSDI 2005

A Wake-Up Call for Internet Monitoring Systems: The Case for Distributed Triggers
Ankur Jain, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Sylvia Ratnasamy, David Wetherall
In Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-II) 2004

A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet
Hari Balakrishnan, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Michael Walfish
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2004

Brief Announcement: Prefix Hash Tree
Sriram Ramabhadran, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of ACM PODC, St. Johns, Canada, July 2004
(earlier versions: IRB Tech Report, Feb. 2004 and, IRB-TR-03-011, Jun. 25, 2003)

Spurring Adoption of DHTs with OpenHash, a Public DHT Service
Brad Karp,  Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Sean Rhea, Scott Shenker
In Third International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) 2004

Coping with Irregular Spatio-temporal Sampling in Sensor Networks
Deepak Ganesan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Hanbiao Wang, Deborah Estrin
In Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-II) 2003

Geographic Routing without Location Information
Ananth Rao,  Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Christos Papadimitriou,  Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
In Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM 2003

The Impact of DHT Routing Geometry on Resilience and Proximity
Krishna Gummadi,  Ramakrishna Gummadi,  Steve Gribble, Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2003

Making Gnutella-like P2P Systems Scalable
Yatin Chawathe,  Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Lee Breslau,  Nick Lanham,   Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2003

DIFS: A Distributed Index for Features in Sensor Networks
Ben Greenstein, Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker
In Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, 2003
(also in the First IEEE Workshop on Sensor Networks Protocols and Applications (SNPA), 2003)

A Scalable Content-Addressable Network Ph.D. Thesis, October 2002

Data-Centric Storage in SensorNets
Scott Shenker,  Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Brad Karp,  Ramesh Govindan,  Deborah Estrin
In First Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-I) 2002

GHT: A Geographic Hash Table for Data-Centric Storage
Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Li Yin,  Fang Yu,  Deborah Estrin,  Ramesh Govindan,  Brad Karp,  Scott Shenker
In First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA) 2002

Can Heterogeneity make Gnutella Scalable?
Qin Lv,  Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Scott Shenker
In First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) 2002

Routing Algorithms for DHTs: Some Open Questions
Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Scott Shenker,  Ion Stoica
In First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) 2002

Internet Indirection Infrastructure
Ion Stoica,  Dan Adkins,  Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Scott Shenker,  Sonesh Surana,  Shelley Zhuang
In First International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS) 2002

Topologically-Aware Overlay Construction and Server Selection
Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Mark Handley,  Richard Karp,  Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of  Infocom 2002

Application-level Multicast using Content-Addressable Networks
Sylvia Ratnasamy,  Mark Handley,  Richard Karp,  Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of  NGC 2001

A Scalable Content-Addressable Network [Paper] [Talk]
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Paul Francis, Mark Handley, Richard Karp, Scott Shenker
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001

Scaling Multicast Transports through End-to-end Topology Discovery M.S. Thesis, March 1999

Scaling End-to-end Multicast Transports with a topologically sensitive Group Formation Protocol
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Steven McCanne
In Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference of Network Protocols  ICNP 1999 

Inference of Multicast Routing Tree Topologies and Bottleneck Bandwidths using End-to-end Measurements
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Steven McCanne
In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom  1999