Sylvia Ratnasamy

Belgian scientist

Scott Shenker
Ion Stoica

Sylvia Ratnasamy (born c. 1976) is a Belgian–Indian computer scientist. She is best known as one of the inventors of the distributed hash table (DHT). Her doctoral dissertation proposed the content-addressable networks, one of the original DHTs, and she received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014 for this work.^[1] She is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Life and career

Ratnasamy received her Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Pune in 1997.^[2] She began doctoral work at UC Berkeley advised by Scott Shenker^[3] during which time she worked at the International Computer Science Institute^[2] in Berkeley, CA. She graduated from UC Berkeley with her doctoral degree in 2002.^[3]

For her doctoral thesis, she designed and implemented what would eventually become known as one of the four original Distributed Hash Tables, the Content addressable network (CAN).^[4]^[5]

Ratnasamy was a lead researcher at Intel Labs until 2011, when she began as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley.^[6] In recent years, Ratnasamy has focused her research on programmable networks including the RouteBricks software router and pioneering work in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).^[7] In 2016, she co-founded Nefeli Networks to commercialize NFV technologies.^[8]

Personal

Her father is noted chemist Paul Ratnasamy.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Grace Murray Hopper Award^[1]
Sloan Fellowship
ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award (2011)^[9]
ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award (2017)^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b "ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award". ACM. 2014. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
^ ^a ^b "New Faculty - EECS at UC Berkeley". eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b Sylvia Ratnasamy. "A Scalable Content Addressable Network" (PDF). eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
^ Ratnasamy; et al. (2001). "A Scalable Content-Addressable Network" (PDF). In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001. Retrieved 2013-05-20. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Hwang, Kai; Fox, Geoffrey C.; Dongarra, Jack (October 31, 2011). "Section 8.6: Bibliographic Notes and Homework Problems" (PDF). Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things, 1st Edition. Morgan Kaufmann. Retrieved 2019-12-03. CAN was proposed by Ratnasamy, et al.
^ "People". span.cs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
^ Scales, Ian (2019-04-05). "NFV needs to lose a few pounds of complexity: introducing 'Lean NFV'". Telecom TV. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
^ Wagner, Mitch (2019-05-30). "Startup Cuts Network Clutter With 'Lean NFV'". Light Reading. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
^ "ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award". ACM SIGCOMM. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
^ "SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Winners". ACM SIGCOMM. Retrieved 2019-12-03.