Technical Program

Keynotes

Data-driven network resilience

Fernando A. Kuipers
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Abstract: 5Communication networks are crucial during disasters, but communication networks are also vulnerable to disasters. While disasters have high impact, they typically do not occur often, which is why many networks are not designed with disaster-resilience in mind. Unfortunately, when disasters strike, standard network resilience mechanisms prove inadequate and large-scale outages manifest. Large-scale network outages also stem from human errors introduced while configuring and programming networks. In this talk, I will discuss both types of large-scale failures and present the gist of some of the tools and techniques that we have devised to mitigate their impact.

Fernando A. Kuipers is a Full Professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), where he established and leads the Networked Systems group. He was a Visiting Scholar at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 2009, and Columbia University, New York City, in 2016. His research revolves around understanding and improving the performance and reliability of Internet and communications infrastructures. He obtained his Ph.D. degree cum laude, the highest possible distinction at TU Delft, and received several best paper awards and nominations for his work, including from IEEE INFOCOM, IFIP Networking, ITC, NetGames, and EuroGP. He has served as General Chair and TPC Chair for flagship conferences such as ACM SIGCOMM (2021 and 2022) and IEEE INFOCOM (2024) and is Vice Chair of the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee. Furthermore, he co-founded the Do IoT fieldlab and the PowerWeb Institute and served on the board of the TU Delft Safety & Security Institute. Currently, he is co-PI of the Dutch 6G flagship project Future Network Services, where he leads the program line Intelligent Networks.