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Justine Sherry's research interests lie at the intersection of software and hardware in networked systems. Her work includes middleboxes for network functionality, FPGA packet processing, measurement techniques, cloud computing, and congestion control mechanisms. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2016, after earning her MS in 2012 and her BS and BA in 2010 from the University of Washington. Throughout her career, she has been recognized with several awards, including the VMware Systems Research Award, Applied Networking Research Prize, and the SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award. Additionally, she has received paper awards from USENIX, NSDI, and ACM SIGCOMM. Sherry is an active member of the DARPA ISAT Study Group and the SIGCOMM CARES Committee. Outside of her research, she enjoys finding great cappuccino.
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