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Sylvia Ratnasamy
Belgian-Indian scientist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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]
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Awards
- Grace Murray Hopper Award[1]
- Sloan Fellowship[citation needed]
- ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award (2011)[9]
- ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award (2017)[10]
References
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