I am a 4th-year PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University. My adviser is Jason Nieh. I am also co-advised by Cliff Stein. My primary research interests are in networking and in coding theory. Check out our coding seminar. My most recent projects revolve around Peer-2-Peer content delivery. My broader interests include: large distributed systems, CDNs (content-delivery networks), coding and graph theory.
I received my B.S. and M.Eng. from MIT in '99 where I majored in Computer Science and minored in Math. For my Master's degree I worked with Tom Leighton, Danny Lewin and David Karger on load-balancing algorithms and implementation of a web-caching system. Starting my senior year at MIT I worked full-time at a great start-up called Akamai. As one of the first engineers in the company I designed and built some of the core architecture of the Akamai CDN. I started my PhD program at Columbia in the Fall of 2003.
email: asherman At cs Dot columbia Dot edu
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