Boon Thau Loo

Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania Contact information: Email: boonloo AT CIS.upenn.edu Address: 605 Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 Short biography.

Please read my research statement (Nov 12, 2009) for an overview of the NetDB@Penn projects that my students and I are actively working on.

Fall 2009 office hours:

• Mon 1:30-2:30pm (605 Levine)

Teaching:

• Teaching statement (Nov 12, 2009).
• CIS 505 Software Systems - Spring 2009, Spring 2008
• CIS 553 / TCOM 512 Networked Systems - Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
• CIS 700/005 Special Topics: Networking meets Databases - Spring 2007

Current PhD students and postdocs:

• Changbin Liu
• Mengmeng Liu (co-advise with Zack Ives)
• Shivkumar Muthukumar
• Dr. Micah Sherr (postdoc)
• Anduo Wang (co-advise with Andre Scedrov and Oleg Sokolsky)
• Steven Wenchao Zhou

Former students:

• Dr. Micah Sherr (co-advised with Matt Blaze). Thesis: Coordinate-Based Routing for High Performance Anonymity, 2009.
  Current employment: Post-doctoral researcher at Penn.
• Andrew Mao (undergraduate researcher)
  Graduate student at Harvard University
• William Marczak (undergraduate researcher)
  CRA Outstanding Undergraduate 2009 (honorable mention).
  Graduate student at the University of California-Berkeley.
• Dr. Yun Mao (co-advised with Jonathan M. Smith). Thesis: A Unified Data-centric Approach towards an Extensible Internet Architecture, 2008.
  Current employment: AT&T Research.

Research group affiliations:

• NetDB@Penn group
• Database group
• Distributed Systems group