Prof. Matthew Caesar

Professor

Matthew Caesar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked in the area of systems and networking for over two decades, publishing over 50 technical papers, which have resulted in multiple best paper awards. He has received the NSF CAREER award, DARPA CSSG membership, is an IEEE Fellow and CAS Fellow, and received the “Test of Time Award” from the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation for his foundational contributions to software-defined networking.

Matthew has a long history of successful technology transfer. He co-founded Veriflow, which was recently sold to VMware in 2019; at AT&T he codeveloped the Routing Control Platform, a route management technology which remains in daily use in their North American IP backbone. Matthew is currently serving as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM and co-chairing the Networking Channel (networkingchannel.eu), an online talk series for the computer systems and networking community.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Simplifying management and improving reliability of distributed systems and networks through principles of self-organization and self-diagnosis, with an emphasis on wide-area networks and networked systems.
Research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of distributed systems and networks on the extremely large scale, with an emphasis on network operations, measurement, and availability.