The Future of the Internet

Adrian Perrig (ETH Zurich)

Adrian Perrig is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he leads the network security group. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at CyLab, and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His earlier appointments include: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science (courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon University and Technical Director for Carnegie Mellon's Cybersecurity Laboratory (CyLab). He earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the guidance of J.D. Tygar, and spent three years during his Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from EPFL. Perrig is also a recipient of several awards to include: the NSF CAREER award, two IBM faculty fellowships, the Sloan research fellowship, the Security 7 award in the category of education by the Information Security Magazine, the Benjamin Richard Teare teaching award, and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award. Adrian's research revolves around building secure systems -- in particular secure future Internet architectures.

Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)

Laurent Vanbever is an Assistant Professor at ETH Z¨¹rich where he has led the Networked Systems Group (NSG) since January 2015. Before that, Laurent was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where he collaborated with Prof. Jennifer Rexford. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Louvain in Belgium in 2012. His research interests lie at the crossroads between theory and practice, with a focus on making large network infrastructures more manageable, scalable and secure. Laurent has won several awards for his research including: the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 best paper award; the ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award (runner-up); the University of Louvain Best Thesis Award;  the ICNP 2013 best paper award; and three IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prizes for his works on inter-domain routing and Software-Defined Networking (SDN).

Timothy (Mothy) Roscoe (ETH Zurich)

Timothy Roscoe, best known as "Mothy" is a Full Professor in the Systems Group of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich. He received a Ph.D. from the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, where he was a principal designer and builder of the Nemesis operating system, as well as working on the Wanda microkernel and Pandora multimedia system.  After three years working on web-based collaboration systems at a startup company in North Carolina, Mothy joined Sprint's Advanced Technology Lab in Burlingame, California working on cloud computing and network monitoring.  He then joined the Intel Research at Berkeley in April 2002 as a principal architect of PlanetLab, an open, shared platform for developing and deploying planetary-scale services.  In September 2006, he spent four months as a visiting researcher in the Embedded and Real-Time Operating Systems group at National ICT Australia in Sydney, before joining ETH Zurich in January 2007. His current research interests include network architecture and the Barrelfish multicore research operating system. He was recently elected Fellow of the ACM for contributions to operating systems and networking research.

Matt Brown (Google)

Matt Brown leads the European branch of the site reliability engineering team that maintains Google's global user facing serving infrastructure and critical load-balancing systems. He has also worked with Google's corporate systems team providing internal infrastructure that keeps the company running. His previous experience includes work as a research analyst and in network software development with the WAND Group at Waikato University in New Zealand where he earlier earned his degree in Computer Science and graduated with honours.

Steve Uhlig (Queen Mary, University of London)

Steve Uhlig is the Professor of Networks and Head of the Networks Research group at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to joining Queen Mary, he was a Senior Research Scientist with Technische Universit?t Berlin/Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany. His prior appointments include visiting scientist at Intel Research Cambridge, UK, and at the Applied Mathematics Department of University of Adelaide, Australia. Between 2006 and 2008, he was with Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Professor Uhlig obtained his Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 2004 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.N.R.S.). His thesis won the annual IBM Belgium/F.N.R.S. Computer Science Prize in 2005. His current research interests include: Internet measurements, software-defined networking, content delivery, privacy-preserving analytics

Nisanth Sastry (King's College London)

Nishanth Sastry is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, a Master's degree from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore University,India, all in Computer Science. He has over six years of experience in the Industry (Cisco Systems, India and IBM Software Group, USA) and Industrial Research Labs (IBM TJ Watson Research Center).
His honours include a Best Undergraduate Project Award, a Best Paper Award from the Computer Society of India, a Yunus Innovation Challenge Award at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology IDEAS Competition, a Benefactor's Scholarship from St. John's College, Cambridge, a Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship, a Cisco Achievement Program Award and several awards for his work at IBM. His work has ranged over several layers of the network stack and he is currently involved in building better networked systems by harnessing social network information.