The Grainger College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Matthew Caesar

Matthew Caesar
Matthew Caesar he/him/his
Professor, Computer Science
(847) 323-2968
3118 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, 2007

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.
  • My 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. I am particularly interested in improving availability and performance of the Internet infrastructure, including routing, DNS, and data centers.

Research Areas

  • Communication networks
  • Computer architecture
  • Computer security, privacy, and information trust
  • Operating systems
  • Parallel processing

Research Topics

  • Distributed computing and storage systems
  • Network science and engineering