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Keith Winstein is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Electrical Engineering. His research group focuses on creating new kinds of networked systems that rethink abstractions for communication, compression, and computing. Notable projects from his group include the Mosh tool, Puffer video-streaming site, Lepton compression tool, Mahimahi network emulators, and the gg lambda-computing framework. Winstein has received multiple prestigious awards, including the SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and the Usenix NSDI Community Award. He also won the Usenix ATC Paper Award and the Applied Networking Research Prize, as well as the SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his doctoral thesis in computer science from MIT. Before his academic role, he worked as a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal and held a position as vice president of product management and business development at Ksplice, a startup company that is now part of Oracle.
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