My research interests include networking, coding theory, probabilistic analysis, large distributed systems, CDNs, and graph theory.
My current research is on P2P content delivery and trust-building in P2P applications.
Check out the Coding Theory seminar page.
Publications:
 | Alex Sherman, Phil Lisiecki, Andy Berkheimer, Joel Wein, "ACMS: Akamai Configuration Management System", in NSDI 2005. [pdf][html][NSDI presentation - ppt] |
| David Karger, Alex Sherman, Andy Berkheimer, Bill Bogstad, Riz Dhanidina, Ken Iwamoto, Brian Kim, Luke Matkins, Yoav Yerushalmi, "Web-Caching with Consistent Hashing" in proceedings of the 8th conference on World Wide Web, May '99. [html][pdf] |
Links to some excellent researchers:
| Yoav Freund - my collaborator on VoIP measurement projects, ML expert with many other interests |
| Mor Harchol-Balter - an extremely enthusiastic queuing theorist (quote: "I don't need coffee to run") |
| Tom Leighton -my MS adviser, MIT Math prof, Akamai founder |
| Jason Nieh - my PhD adviser, Columbia CS prof, OS, VM expert |
| Angelos Stavrou - a Columbia PhD student and my collaborator on Peer-2-Peer projects. |
| Cliff Stein - my PhD co-adviser, an algorithms guru, Columbia OR prof. |
| Joel Wein - CS prof at Poly., my former Akamai boss and head of systems comm. group |
Some other people that I have not worked with, but are cool anyway:
| Stephen Miller - a crazy Math Prof, a huge Beatles fan and a part-time guitar player and parody writer |
| Leonid Kontorovich -a CMU Machine Learning grad. student |