Scott Shenker | EECS at UC Berkeley

Research Areas

Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
Internet Architecture, Software-Defined Networks, Datacenter Infrastructure, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Game Theory and Economics

Research Centers

Biography

In addition to his position on campus, Scott is a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute. Scott Shenker spent his academic youth studying theoretical physics but soon gave up chaos theory for computer science. Continuing to display a remarkably short attention span, his research over the years has wandered from performance modeling and networking to game theory and economics. Unable to focus on any single topic, his current research projects include software-defined networking, network function virtualization, network algorithms and protocols, cluster programming models, and Internet architecture. Unable to hold a steady job, he currently splits his time between the UC Berkeley Computer Science Division and the International Computer Science Institute.

Education

1983, Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago
1978, Sc.B., Physics, Brown University

Selected Publications

E. Amaro, C. Branner-Augmon, Z. Luo, A. Ousterhout, M. K. Aguilera, A. Panda, S. Ratnasamy, and S. Shenker, "Can far memory improve job throughput?," in Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Conference on Computer Systems, 2020, pp. 1--16.
H. Li, A. Ghodsi, M. Zaharia, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Tachyon: Reliable, Memory Speed Storage for Cluster Computing Frameworks," in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2014.
M. Zaharia, T. Das, H. Li, T. Hunter, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Discretized Streams: Fault-Tolerant Streaming Computation at Scale," in ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2013.
R. S. Xin, J. Rosen, M. Zaharia, M. Franklin, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-214, Nov. 2012.
J. Feigenbaum and S. Shenker, "Distributed algorithmic mechanism design: Recent results and future directions," in Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2002, pp. 1-13.
S. Ratnasamy, P. Francis, M. Handley, R. M. Karp, and S. Shenker, "A scalable content-addressable network," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conf.: Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2001, pp. 161-172.
R. Braden, D. Clark, and S. Shenker, "Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: An Overview," Internet Engineering Task Force, Tech. Rep. RFC 1633, June 1994.
A. Demers, S. Keshav, and S. Shenker, "Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm," in Proc. SIGCOMM '89 Symp. on Communications Architectures and Protocols, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1989, pp. 1-12.
A. Demers, D. Greene, C. Hauser, W. Irish, J. Larson, S. Shenker, H. Sturgis, D. Swinehart, and D. Terry, "Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance," in Proc. 6th Annual ACM Symp. on Principles of Distributed Computing, F. B. Schneider, Ed., New York, NY: ACM Press, 1987, pp. 1-12.

Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

IEEE CS Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award, 2023
Fiat Lux Faculty Award, 2022
IETI Distinguished Fellow, 2020
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Member, 2019
Berkeley Visionary Award, 2017
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, 2017
ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2017
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, 2016
Computers and Communications (C&C) Prize, 2015
Jim and Donna Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science, 2014
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 2012
ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2011
IEEE Internet Award, 2006
ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2006
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2003
ACM SIGCOMM Award, 2002
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 2000

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