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Sylvia Ratnasamy
Nationality Belgian
Alma mater UC Berkeley, University of Pune
Known for Distributed hash tables, software routing
Awards Grace Murray Hopper Award Sloan Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions UC Berkeley, Intel Labs, International Computer Science Institute, Nefeli Networks
Thesis A Scalable Content-Addressable Network (2002)
Doctoral advisor
  • Scott Shenker
  • Ion Stoica

Sylvia Ratnasamy, born around 1976, is a smart computer scientist from Belgium and India. She is famous for helping to create something called the distributed hash table (DHT). Her big project for her PhD degree was about something called 'content-addressable networks.' This was one of the first DHTs. Because of this important work, she won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014. Today, she teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Life and career

Sylvia finished her engineering degree at the University of Pune in 1997. Then, she started studying for her PhD at UC Berkeley. Her teacher was Scott Shenker. While she was studying, she also worked at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. She earned her PhD from UC Berkeley in 2002.

For her PhD project, she designed and built a system. This system later became known as one of the four first Distributed Hash Tables. It was called the Content addressable network (CAN).

Sylvia was a main researcher at Intel Labs until 2011. After that, she became a professor at UC Berkeley. In recent years, Sylvia has been working on 'programmable networks.' This includes the RouteBricks software router. She also did important work in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). In 2016, she helped start a company called Nefeli Networks. This company helps bring NFV technologies to more people.

Personal life

Her father is a well-known chemist named Paul Ratnasamy.

Awards and honors

Sylvia Ratnasamy has received several important awards for her work:

See also

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