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

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. Prior to my Ph.D, I received my M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2000, and my B.S. degree with highest honors from UC Berkeley in 1999. I 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. I am a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2009) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award (2012).

I lead the NetDB@Penn research group, where we are working on several exciting projects at the intersection of databases, networking, and formal methods. Our work is summarized in this one-page research statement. You can also learn more about our various research projects, publications, NSF and DoD funded projects, centered around the theme of developing a safe and verifiable future Internet.

Spring 2012 office hours:

Mon and Wed 1:30-2pm (605 Levine).

Teaching:

CIS 553 / TCOM 512 Networked Systems - Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CIS 380 Operating Systems - Fall 2011
CIS 800/003 Rigorous Internet Protocol Engineering - Fall 2011
CIS 505 Software Systems - Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
CS 598D: Formal Methods in Networking - Spring 2010 (Princeton)
CIS 700/005 Special Topics: Networking meets Databases - Spring 2007

Current PhD students:

Chen Chen (co-advise with Limin Jia)
Harjot Gill
Yang Li (co-advise with Alex Gurney)
Changbin Liu
Mengmeng Liu (co-advise with Zack Ives)
Anduo Wang (co-advise with Andre Scedrov)
Zhuoyao Zhang (co-advise with Insup Lee)
Steven Wenchao Zhou

Former Ph.D. students:

Dr. Micah Sherr (co-advised with Matt Blaze). Thesis: Coordinate-Based Routing for High Performance Anonymity, 2009. Assistant Professor at Georgetown University.
Dr. Yun Mao (co-advised with Jonathan M. Smith). Thesis: A Unified Data-centric Approach towards an Extensible Internet Architecture, 2008. Senior member of technical staff, AT&T Research.

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