Boon Thau Loo

Associate 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 Associate 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. You can 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. My research and teaching statements also provides a good overview for our work. For a quick summary, please refer to my one-page research statement.

Spring 2013 office hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:30-2pm (605 Levine).

Teaching:

CIS 553 / TCOM 512 Networked Systems - Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CIS 380 Operating Systems - Fall 2012, 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 and postdocs:

Behnaz Arzani (co-advise with Roch Guerin).
Chen Chen (co-advise with Limin Jia)
Alex Gurney (postdoc)
Harjot Gill
Yang Li (co-advise with Sanjeev Khanna)
Dong Lin
Mengmeng Liu (co-advise with Zack Ives)
Anduo Wang (co-advise with Andre Scedrov)
Zhuoyao Zhang (co-advise with Insup Lee)

Former Ph.D. students and postdocs [Dissertations]:

Dr. Changbin Liu, AT&T Labs Research (2012).
Dr. Steven Wenchao Zhou, Georgetown University (2012). Honorable Mention for the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award (2013).
Dr. Micah Sherr (co-advised with Matt Blaze), Georgetown University (2010). Winner of Rubinoff award for Best Computer Science Dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Yun Mao (co-advised with Jonathan M. Smith), AT&T Labs Research (2008).

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