Ethan Katz-Bassett

   ethan AT ee DOT columbia DOT edu
   Office: CEPSR 817
   Mail: 500 West 120th Street
   Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
   New York, NY 10027
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Students and Postdocs

I work with a number of exceptional graduate students and postdocs at Columbia, USC, and Princeton.

Current PhD Students

  • Jiangchen Zhu (Internet routing and content delivery, co-advised with Matt Calder)
  • Loqman Salamatian (Internet topology and measurement, co-advised with Vishal Misra and Dan Rubinstein)
  • Shuyue (Erika) Yu (Internet measurement and live video, co-advised with Gil Zussman)
  • Carson Garland

Former Postdocs

  • Kevin Vermeulen. First job: Researcher, Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems - CNRS.
  • Arpit Gupta. First job: Assistant Professor, UCSB.

Graduated PhD Students

  • Tobias Flach (Internet measurement and TCP performance, co-advised with Ramesh Govindan). First job: Google.
  • Kyriakos Zarifis (Web and CDN performance, co-advised with Ramesh Govindan). First job: Boingo Wireless.
  • Matt Calder (CDN performance). First job: Technical lead, Azure Frontdoor (Microsoft's CDN).
  • Todd Arnold (Internet and cloud routing). First job: Research scientist, Army Cyber Institute, and Assistant Professor, West Point.
  • Brandon Schlinker (Internet routing). First job: Research scientist, Meta.
  • Chris Hodsdon (Distributed systems and transport, co-advised with Wyatt Lloyd). First job: Databricks.
  • Theano Stavrinos (Distributed systems and transport, co-advised with Wyatt Lloyd). First job: Postdoc, University of Washington.
  • Thomas Koch (Internet routing and content delivery). First job: Google.

Graduated Masters Students

  • Yi-Ching Chiu (Internet measurement and routing, co-advised with Ramesh Govindan). First job: Google
  • Mohsin Ali (Distributed systems, co-advised with Wyatt Lloyd). First job: Facebook.
  • Aqib Nisar (CDN performance, co-advised with John Heidemann). First job: NetApp.
  • Brian Goodchild (Internet measurement/web transparency and targeting, co-advised with Roxana Geambasu)
  • Ege Gurmericliler
  • Sang Hoon Kim (co-advised with Vishal Misra)

Graduated Undergraduate Students

  • Justine Sherry. PhD, Berkeley. First job: Assistant Professor, CMU.
  • Colin Scott. PhD, Berkeley. First job: Microsoft Research India.
  • Mary Pimenova. First job: Facebook.
  • Ashoat Tevosyan. First job: Facebook.
  • Georgia Essig. First job: Google.
I have also had a great time working with other people's students, including Xun Fan, Zi Hu, Liang Zhu, and Calvin Ardi from ISI's ANT lab; Zhe Wu from Michigan; Arpit Gupta from Princeton; Pietro Marchetta from the University of Napoli Federico II (advised by Antonio Pescapè); Arash Molavi at Northeastern; Ruwaifa Anwar and Haseeb Niaz at Stony Brook University; and Rui Miao, Zahaib Akhtar, Haonan Lu, Yurong Jiang, Luis Pedrosa, and Xing Xu from the NSL lab I used to co-lead at USC.