S. Mudd, 3509
2233 Tech Drive, 3rd Floor Evanston, IL USA 60208
1.847.491-2745
The principle of science, the definition, almost,
is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific
'truth'. But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from?
Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints.
Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics
I do research on Internet-scale computer networks and distributed systems. My research approach is primarily experimental -- building and evaluating ideas in “the wild”. Much of my work focuses on improving the visibility of measurement on networked systems, leveraging this visibility to characterize them and the infrastructure they rely on, and designing new and improved systems based on the gained insight. As the forces shaping the Internet ecosystem are less purely technical, in recent years I have started to explore the interactions between pervasive networked systems and their broader context, from natural disaster, to political unrest and economics. more?
What's New?
I am always looking for good students interested in networked systems (distributed
systems, networking, wired and mobile systems).
A new on IPXs, a great collaboration with Andra Lutu and Diego Perino, from Telefonica Research, and Marcelo Bagnulo, from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid will appear in ACM SIGCOMM 2021.
Nick Feamster and I co-chaired the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020. Among the many changes we introduced to the review process, the use of a Review Task Force and Early Rejections seem to be popular and have been adopted by several other great conferences since.
Fabián E. Bustamante is a Professor of Computer Science
at Northwestern
University and Lead Scientist at Phenix,
a Chicago-baserd startup focused on real-time video streaming, at scale. Fabián
completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia
Institute of Technology in 2001.
Before going to Georgia Tech, he studied and taught at the Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia
San Juan Bosco (Argentina), from which he received both a
3-year and a 5-year-and-project degrees in computer science. His
research interests span several areas of experimental systems,
with a focus on networking and distributed systems. As part of their work,
he and his research group have released tens of open-source systems that
together have gained over 1.5 million users worldwide. Fabián is an ACM and
IEEE senior member, a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award and the Science
Foundation of Ireland E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award.
Curriculum Vitae
Recent and representative publications
Global Mobile Network Aggregators: Taxonomy, Roaming Performance and Optimization
S. Alcalá-Marín, A. Raman, W. Wu, A. Lutu, M. Bagnulo, O. Alay, F.E. Bustamante. ACM MobiSys 2022
BatteryLab: A Collaborative Platform for Power Monitoring
M. Varvello, K. Katevas, M. Plesa, H. Haddadi, F.E. Bustamante, B. Livshits. PAM 2022
Reining in Mobile Web Performance with Document and Permission Policies
A seminar intended to help students understand the Internet's evolving design, and some of the forces behind it, through active discussions and investigative projects on state-of-the-art networking research. Tue/Thu 11:00-12:20PM
Affiliated Faculty - Northwestern
Institute on Complex Systems - founded in 2004 with the
goals of uncovering fundamental principles governing complex
systems in science, technology, and human behavior and
applying these principles to solve societally relevant
problems through the analysis, design, and control of complex
systems.
Affiliated Faculty -
Northwestern Universtiy Transportation Center - a leading
interdisciplinary education and research institution
dedicated, since 1954, to the long-term improvement of
domestic and international systems for the movements of
materials, people, energy, and information.
Jeanine and I run long distance (marathons, half-marathons, and 10k).
I train using the advanced plan from Hansons Brothers, which I highly recommend. For years I used a program that closely
follows Pfitzinger and Douglas in Advanced
marathoning and one season I tried the Furman's
FIRST three-days+cross marathon plan, but had to go back to the old approach -- long
quality miles.
I played Lock/2nd Row for
Chenque Rugby Club, between 1984 and 1993. Many good
friends and family still play for the club or for the veteran
rugby team Los Alacranes.
Los Pumas'
passion -
a great
video of the toughest guys in the IRB.
