Barath Raghavan

Barath Raghavan is on the computer science faculty at University of Southern California.  Previously he led the engineering team at Nefeli Networks, was a senior staff researcher at ICSI, was CTO of a social-impact nonprofit, developed networked systems at Google, and taught complexity theory at Williams College.  His work spans an equally diverse range of areas including Internet architecture, network security and privacy, network function virtualization, digital agriculture, rural Internet access, network troubleshooting and testing, and computing for urban resilience.  He received his PhD from UC San Diego in 2009 and his BS from UC Berkeley in 2002.  He has received a number of paper awards including from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM DEV, ACM CHI, and the IRTF.