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Vyas Sekar is a Tan Family Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie in the areas of networking, including the explosion of Internet-enabled devices, applications, and services. He is particularly focused on the increasing performance requirements, such as network latency and user-perceived quality of experience, alongside the evolving security expectations in networking. His work addresses the historical gaps between networking innovation and user needs, creating significant stresses on network infrastructure. Through years of research, Sekar aims to provide practical yet rigorous solutions that enable network infrastructures to meet and exceed the evolving performance and security requirements of applications. His key research domains include: (R1) Programmable 'software-defined' network functions to improve performance and security and (R2) Network support for enhancing user-perceived performance of large-scale content distribution applications. His work frequently explores the intersection of networking and various domains of computing, including optimization, machine learning, control theory, and formal verification.
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