People

The SNS group is comprised of the following people. Prospective graduate students should apply to Princeton’s PhD program; see the department’s website for more information. Princeton undergraduates are encouraged to contact us for research opportunities.
May 2009, from left: Siddhartha Sen, Muneeb Ali, David Shue, Wyatt Lloyd, Mike Freedman, Jeff Terrace

Group Leader

  • Mike Freedman Mike Freedman is an Assistant Professor in Princeton’s Computer Science Department.  Prior to that, he received a Ph.D. from NYU’s Courant Insitute, during which he spent two years at Stanford University, and S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT.  Mike’s research interests are in distributed systems, security, and networking, broadly defined.  He used to enjoy climbing, hiking, and mountaineering in his spare time, although this little thing called work keeps getting in the way lately.

Post-Docs

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    Steven Ko recently completed his PhD at UIUC, and is working at Princeton for the year with Mike Freedman and Jennifer Rexford. Next year, he will be starting as an assistant professor of computer science at SUNY Buffalo.

PhD Students

  • Muneeb AliMuneeb Ali is a PhD student at Princeton University. Before moving to Princeton in 2008, he worked as research staff at TU Delft, the Netherlands. Also, he was a visiting researcher at Stanford University (summer 2007) and SICS, Sweden (fall 2005). Muneeb received his BS from LUMS. He is interested in networked systems, wireless and sensor networks, and ICTD.
  • premPrem Gopalan is a first-year PhD student, joining Princeton after working for several years at Mazu Networks. Prior to that, he received his M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University, and B.E. from BITS Pilani, India.
  • Wyatt LloydWyatt Lloyd is a third-year PhD student, having received his B.S. in Computer Science from Penn State’s Honors College.
  • Sid SenSiddhartha Sen received his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT, after which he worked in Microsoft’s Network Load Balancing group for a few years before coming to Princeton in 2007.  Sid is interested in the intersection of systems and theory, and is co-advised by Mike Freedman and Bob Tarjan.
  • David ShueDavid Shue is a second-year PhD student, re-entering the academic fray after a 9 year industry hiatus. Prior to resuming a graduate career (MIT – B.S, M.Eng. 1999), Dave worked at WANDL, Inc developing OSS software. His current interests include distributed monitoring, measurement, and management.
  • Jeff TerraceJeff Terrace is a third-year PhD student.  He graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2007 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is currently working on CRAQ and Firecoral.

Undergraduates

  • Eric Hao LiuEric Hao Liu is a very recent graduate from Princeton.  He hacks on Firecoral and hopes to change the Web.
  • Patrick WendellPatrick Wendell is a rising Junior at Princeton. He is improving and deploying Namecast, an anycasted DNS service which began as the Senior Thesis of Andrew Schran. Next Fall, Patrick will study abroad at University College London.