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Justine Sherry is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in computer networking. Her work encompasses middleboxes, networked systems, measurement, cloud computing, and congestion control. Her recent research delves into the opportunities and challenges presented by the deployment of middleboxes, such as firewalls and proxies, as services offered by cloud providers and ISPs. Sherry earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, following a Master’s degree in 2012 and a Bachelor’s degree in 2010, which combined Computer Science and International Studies from the University of Washington. She has received numerous accolades including the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the David J. Sakrison Prize, and multiple paper awards from prestigious conferences like USENIX NSDI and ACM SIGCOMM. Sherry is also recognized for her contributions to the Future Enterprise Security Initiative and has been quoted in major publications regarding internet performance and cloud computing during critical events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent Facebook outage.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.