Matthew Caesar

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, 61801

Email: caesar (at) cs (dot) illinois (dot) edu
Office: Room 3118, Siebel Center
Phone: 847-323-2968

Links: [ Publications ] [ Bio ]

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UIUC. I am also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an Affiliate Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences, and a member of the Information Trust Institute. I am also Chief Science Officer of Veriflow and I serve as the Director of Education for ACM SIGCOMM. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

My research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of networked and distributed systems, with an emphasis on network virtualization, routing, network algorithms, systems security, and cloud services. I like taking a multi-pronged approach to system design, building systems that work well in practice but are grounded in strong theoretical principles. My recent work involves network security, network verification, and Internet of Things.

Students

Alumni

Wenxuan Zhou (PhD 2018, Senior Software Engineer, Network Verification Group, VMWare)
Jason Croft (PhD 2018, Researcher, Forward Networks)
Zhichun Wan (MS 2019, Software Engineer, Cloud Development Group, Marklogic)
Rashid Tahir (PhD 2018, Assistant Professor, University of Prince Mugrin, Saudi Arabia)
Gohar Irfan Chaudhry (MS 2018, Systems and Networking Group, Microsoft Research)
Yongli Chen (MS 2017, Azure Cloud Core Networking Team, Microsoft)
Fred Douglas (PhD 2017, Software Engineer (working on Internet Freedom), Google)
Hassan Shahid Khan (MS 2017, Software Engineer, Amazon)
Ahmed Khurshid (PhD 2015, Principal Engineer and Co-Founder, Veriflow Systems)
Kevin Jin (Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology)
Anduo Wang (Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor, Temple University)
Virajith Jalaparti (PhD 2015, Scientist, Cloud Information Services Laboratory, Microsoft)
Jereme Lamps (MS 2015, Sandia National Labs, Cyber Security R&D)
Chi-Yao Hong (PhD 2015, Google Core Network Architectures Group)
Bobby Zhongbo Chen (MS 2015, Software Engineer, Growth Infrastructure Team, Dropbox)
Chia-Chi Lin (PhD 2013, Facebook Research)
Yiwei Yang (MS 2013, Yahoo! Labs, Champaign)
Rachit Agarwal (PhD 2013, Assistant Professor, Cornell University)
Joseph Leong (MS 2013, MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Firat Kiyak (MS 2009, Microsoft, Windows Core Networking Team)
Brent Mochizuki (MS 2010, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab)

Teaching

CS 498IT -- Internet of Things [Spring 2019] [Fall 2019] [Spring 2020] [Fall 2020]
CS 436 -- Systems and Networking Laboratory, [Fall 2009], [Spring 2012], [Fall 2017], [Spring 2018], [Fall 2018]
CS 598 -- Network Security, [Spring 2013]
CS 598 -- Advanced Internetworking, [Fall 2008] [Spring 2011]
CS 591AoS -- Acting Out Algorithms [Spring 2013] [Fall 2013]
CS 438 -- Communication Networks, [Spring 2009] [Spring 2010] [Spring 2014]
CS 241 -- System Programming, [Fall 2011]

Service

ACM CCS (2021), ACM CoNEXT (2009, 2011), ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop Co-Chair (2009), ACM HotNets (2012), ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (2013), ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Teaching and Learning Computer Networking During the Pandemic and Beyond, Co-Chair (2020) ACM Sigcomm Workshop Co-Chair (2014) ACM Sigcomm (2012, 2013, 2014, 2020 - Mentoring Chair, 2021 - Sponsor Chair, 2021), ACM Student Research Competition Judge (2011, 2012), HackThis (2021), HackIllinois (2020) IEEE ICNP (2010, 2011, 2012), IEEE LANMAN (2008), Passive and Active Measurements Conference (2010, 2012), USENIX NSDI (2013, 2021) USENIX NSDI Poster and Demo Committee Chair (2013),