Vyas Sekar
Assistant Professor
Office: Room 2424
Computer Science Department
Stony Brook University
Email: v y a s at c s dot stonybrook dot edu
Phone: six-three-one six.3.two eight-4-six-0


My research is at the intersection of networking, security, and systems. Before joining Stony Brook, I graduated with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and was a research scientist at Intel Labs.

My most recent research is related to:
Middlebox design and management:
(SIMPLE: SIGCOMM 2013, FlowTags: HotSDN 2013, CoMb: NSDI 2012, DRFQ: SIGCOMM 2012, Aplomb: SIGCOMM 2012, NIDS LoadBalancing: CoNext 2012)
Internet video and content distribution:
(QoE: SIGCOMM 2013, HotNets 2012, idICN: SIGCOMM 2013, FESTIVE: CoNext 2012, Control Plane: SIGCOMM 2012, Engagement: SIGCOMM 2011)
Mobile web and privacy:
(WebComplexity: IMC 2012, WebSieve: HotMobile 2013, UserConfidence: SOUPS 2012)

Some of my older projects were on topics related to
Network management and monitoring
(cSamp: NSDI 2008, SmartRE: SIGCOMM 2009, Minimalist monitoring: IMC 2010, On-path NIDS/NIPS: CoNext 2010)
Scalable attack detection and forensics
(LADS: USENIX 2006, Random Moonwalks: Oakland 2005, Streaming Entropy: SIGMETRICS 2006)

Recent Publications

  • FlowTags: Enforcing Network-Wide Policies in the Presence of Dynamic Middlebox Actions
    Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu, Jeff Mogul
    to appear in HotSDN 2013 (6pg paper)
  • Less Pain, Most of the Gain: Incrementally Deployable ICN
    Seyed Fayazbakhsh, Amin Tootoonchian, Yin Lin, Ali Ghodsi, KC Ng, Bruce Maggs, Vyas Sekar, Scott Shenker
    to appear in SIGCOMM 2013
  • SIMPLE-fying Middlebox Policy Enforcement Using SDN
    Zafar Qazi, Cheng-Chun tu, Luis Chiang, Rui Miao, Vyas Sekar, Minlan Yu
    to appear in SIGCOMM 2013
  • Developing a Predictive Model of Quality of Experience for Internet Video
    Athula Balachandran, Vyas Sekar, Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang
    to appear in SIGCOMM 2013
  • Toward Verifiable Resource Accounting for Outsourced Computation
    Chen Chen, Petros Maniatis, Adrian Perrig, Amit Vasudevan, Vyas Sekar
    in VEE 2013
  • Enabling the Transition to the Mobile Web with WebSieve
    Michael Butkiewicz, Zhe Wu, Shunan Li, Pavithra Murali, Vagelish Hristidis, Harsha V Madhyastha, Vyas Sekar
    in HotMobile 2013

    Full list

    • Teaching

    Spring 2013: CSE534 Fundamentals of Computer Networks
    Fall 2012: CSE592 Advanced Topics in Computing: Recent Advances in Networking

    Students

    I am looking for students who have a strong background in networking and systems and great analytical/algorithms skills. If you are interested in working with me, please apply to the graduate program at Stony Brook CS!

    Service Activities

    Program co-chair

    CoNEXT 2012 Student Workshop
    HotMiddlebox 2013

    Organization

    CoNext 2013 Travel Grants

    Program committees

    2013: SIGCOMM , CCS , CoNext, NSDI Demo/Poster, ANCS , IWQoS , Networking , Performance , ICPADS (Security track)
    2012: CoNEXT, IMC, PAM, COMSNETS
    2011: IMC, SIGCOMM Demos/Posters, ICCCN EEN Track

    Research funding. Thanks!

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