Boon Thau Loo
Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: NSF CAREER award - 2009, ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award - 2007, David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize - 2006
Research Expertise: Databases | Distributed Systems
Boon's research focuses on distributed data management systems, Internet-scale query processing, and the application of database technologies to networked systems. He is particularly interested in developing information-centric network architectures that can be easily extended, composed, and formally verified. His recent projects include applying declarative networking techniques in the areas of dynamic network composition, adaptive mobile ad-hoc networks, and scalable knowledge-based networks. He is also exploring novel database-inspired techniques for diagnosing, securing, and verifying network protocols.
Education:
PhD - University of California at Berkeley
MS - Stanford University
BS - University of California at Berkeley
Recent Publications 
- Declarative secure distributed information systems, Zhou, W. | Tao, T. | Loo, B.T. | Mao, Y., Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, 2013
- Distributed time-aware provenance, Zhou, W. | Mapara, S. | Ren, Y. | Li, Y. | Haeberlen, A. | Ives, Z. | Loo, B.T. | Sherr, M., Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2012
- Reduction-based security analysis of Internet routing protocols, Chen, C. | Jia, L. | Loo, B.T. | Zhou, W., Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP, 2012
- Automated profiling and resource management of pig programs for meeting service level objectives, Zhang, Z. | Cherkasova, L. | Verma, A. | Loo, B.T., ICAC'12 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2012
- Private and verifiable interdomain routing decisions, Zhao, M. | Zhou, W. | Gurney, A.J.T. | Haeberlen, A. | Sherr, M. | Loo, B.T., SIGCOMM'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2012