Fabian Ruffy

Systems Laboratory
60 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10011, USA
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I am a PhD candidate in the systems lab of the New York University (NYU) advised by Anirudh Sivaraman. I also serve as the current chief architect and member of the technical steering team of the P4 Language Organization. Part of my work for the P4 organization also involves maintaining P4C, the reference P4 compiler.

Before my PhD at NYU, I was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and member of the Network, Systems, and Security (NSS) lab. Together with Ivan Beschastnikh I worked on all sorts of topics related to datacenter networking.

My general interests center around Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and network programming made possible by languages such as P4. I like to work on topics that simplify configuration and maintenance in computer networks. Correspondingly, I try to advance software practice in computer networks. This includes the use of formal methods, better compiler techniques, the definition of well-defined configuration interfaces, and better testing methodology. In the past, I have also dabbled with Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and datacenter congestion control.