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Nicolas Christin Postdoctoral Scholar UC Berkeley - School of Information Management and Systems 102 South Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 - USA Phone: (510) 643-4314 Office: 2 South Hall PGP: 8276 9C96 EA91 CD82 542D 20FC 5DAF EFEA 7D3B CF23 (public key) |
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I
am a postdoctoral scholar
in the School of Information Management and Systems, at the
University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. John
Chuang. My
research interests are in
computer networks and distributed systems, and range from designing and
evaluating formal models and algorithms to implementation aspects and
measurements.
Currently, as part of the p2pecon research group, I am
investigating how systems and networks designers can use tools borrowed
from economic theory to understand and engineer incentives for
collaboration among competing (or even malicious) entities.
Prior to joining UC Berkeley in September 2003, I spent five years in the Computer Science Department of the University of Virginia, working in the Multimedia Networks Group, under the supervision of Prof. Jörg Liebeherr. I obtained a Master's of Computer Science in August 2000, and completed my Ph.D. (in Computer Science as well) in August 2003. My dissertation research primarily dealt with quantifiable service differentiation in packet networks, and included much hacking in the BSD kernels.
I spent 2002-2003 working at Nortel Networks in Massachusetts, under the supervision of Dr. Victor Firoiu. At Nortel, my research concentrated on novel switch architectures for predictable performance.
A slightly longer biography is available. My professional activities are summarized in my vita, and my research contributions can be found in my publications page. Some of the software projects I have been working on over the years are discussed here. Last, the few items that do not fit into a particular section of this website are available in my "miscellanea" page, and an index of the full site is also available.