Sylvia Ratnasamy
Belgian-Indian scientist
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Sylvia Ratnasamy (born c. 1976) is a Belgian-Indian computer scientist. She is best known as one of the inventors of the distributed hash table (DHT). Her doctoral dissertation proposed the content-addressable networks, one of the original DHTs, and she received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2014 for this work.[1] She is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sylvia Ratnasamy | |
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| Education | UC Berkeley, University of Pune |
| Known for | Distributed hash tables, software routing |
| Awards | Grace Murray Hopper Award Sloan Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Workplaces | UC Berkeley, Intel Labs, International Computer Science Institute, Nefeli Networks |
| Thesis | A Scalable Content-Addressable Network (2002) |
Life and career
Ratnasamy received her Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Pune in 1997.[2] She began doctoral work at UC Berkeley advised by Scott Shenker[3] during which time she worked at the International Computer Science Institute[2] in Berkeley, CA. She graduated from UC Berkeley with her doctoral degree in 2002.[3]
For her doctoral thesis, she designed and implemented what would eventually become known as one of the four original Distributed Hash Tables, the Content addressable network (CAN).[4][5]
Ratnasamy was a lead researcher at Intel Labs until 2011, when she began as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley.[6] In recent years, Ratnasamy has focused her research on programmable networks including the RouteBricks software router and pioneering work in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).[7] In 2016, she co-founded Nefeli Networks to commercialize NFV technologies.[8]
Awards
- ACM Fellow (2025)[9]
- ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award (2017)[10]
- Grace Murray Hopper Award (2014)[1]
- Sloan Fellowship (2012)[11]
- ACM SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Award (2011)[12]