Matthew is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2007.
He currently serves as Chair of ACM SIGCOMM, co-founder and organizing
committee member of the Networking Channel, and co-Principal Investigator of
the $25M TSCP-DC project at UIUC's IARCS center in Singapore. Prior to his
Ph.D, he spent several years as an engineer in the telecom sector (Nokia,
Diamond Lane, HP). He has worked in the area of networked systems for over two
decades, publishing over 50 technical papers, which appear in highly selective
academic conferences and have resulted in multiple best paper awards. Matthew
has led over $10M in research initiatives in this space, including a $2.4M
DARPA MRC initiative on next-generation security for cloud networking. He
received the NSF CAREER award (2011), DARPA CSSG membership (2011), is a CAS
Fellow (2013), an IEEE Fellow (2023) and received Test of Time Awards from
SIGSIM-PADS for his landmark work on distributed time synchronization, and 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. His startup company Veriflow
produced the first practical network verification system and was sold to VMware
in 2019. At AT&T he co-developed the Routing Control Platform, a route
management technology which was deployed on their North American IP backbone.
At Microsoft, he co-developed Virtual Ring Routing, which was incorporated as
part of the mesh connectivity layer in Microsoft Windows. Matthew has worked
extensively with the US Department of Defense, through participation in the
DARPA CSSG program, and holds a Top Secret security clearance. Matthew has also
served as an expert witness in multiple high-profile litigations on behalf of
networking technology users, and teaches students across the world through his
MOOC as well as in-person outreach classes at universities in East Asia.