Boon Thau Loo
Boon Thau Loo is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information
Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at
Berkeley in 2006. Prior to his Ph.D, he received his M.S. degree from
Stanford University in 2000, and his B.S. degree with highest honors
from UC Berkeley in 1999. His research focuses on distributed data
management systems, Internet-scale query processing, and the
application of data-centric techniques and formal methods to the
design, analysis and implementation of networked systems. He was
awarded the 2006 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for the most
outstanding dissertation research in the Department of EECS at UC
Berkeley, and the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award. He is a recipient
of the NSF CAREER award (2009) and the Air Force Office of Scientific
Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award (2012). He has served as the
program co-chair for the CoNEXT 2008 Student Workshop, the NetDB 2009
workshop co-located with SOSP, and the Workshop on Rigorous Protocol
Engineering (WRiPE 2011) co-located with ICNP.
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