# Scott Shenker

### Research Areas

- Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
- Internet Architecture, Software-Defined Networks, Datacenter Infrastructure, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Game Theory and Economics

### Research Centers

- International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
- Networked Systems Lab (NETSYS)

## Biography

In addition to his position on campus, Scott is a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute. Scott spent his academic youth studying theoretical physics but soon gave up chaos theory for computer science. Continuing to display a remarkably short attention span, his research over the years has wandered from performance modeling and networking to game theory and economics. Unable to focus on any single topic, his current research projects include various topics in networking, system design, and privacy mechanisms. However, despite all these distractions and many decades of therapy, he has never overcome his obsession with Internet architecture. Unable to hold a steady job, he currently splits his time between the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the UC Berkeley Computer Science Division. He is indebted to his many collaborators for inspiring him intellectually while patiently enduring his terrible sense of humor and his tyrannical approach to collaborative writing.

## Education

- 1983, Ph.D., Physics, University of Chicago
- 1978, Sc.B., Physics, Brown University

## Selected Publications

- E. Amaro, C. Branner-Augmon, Z. Luo, A. Ousterhout, M. K. Aguilera, A. Panda, S. Ratnasamy, and S. Shenker, "Can far memory improve job throughput?," in Proceedings of the Fifteenth European Conference on Computer Systems, 2020, pp. 1--16.
- H. Li, A. Ghodsi, M. Zaharia, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Tachyon: Reliable, Memory Speed Storage for Cluster Computing Frameworks," in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2014.
- M. Zaharia, T. Das, H. Li, T. Hunter, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Discretized Streams: Fault-Tolerant Streaming Computation at Scale," in ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2013.
- R. S. Xin, J. Rosen, M. Zaharia, M. Franklin, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-214, Nov. 2012.
- J. Feigenbaum and S. Shenker, "Distributed algorithmic mechanism design: Recent results and future directions," in Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2002, pp. 1-13.
- S. Ratnasamy, P. Francis, M. Handley, R. M. Karp, and S. Shenker, "A scalable content-addressable network," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conf.: Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2001, pp. 161-172.
- R. Braden, D. Clark, and S. Shenker, "Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: An Overview," Internet Engineering Task Force, Tech. Rep. RFC 1633, June 1994.
- A. Demers, S. Keshav, and S. Shenker, "Analysis and simulation of a fair queueing algorithm," in Proc. SIGCOMM '89 Symp. on Communications Architectures and Protocols, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1989, pp. 1-12.
- A. Demers, D. Greene, C. Hauser, W. Irish, J. Larson, S. Shenker, H. Sturgis, D. Swinehart, and D. Terry, "Epidemic algorithms for replicated database maintenance," in Proc. 6th Annual ACM Symp. on Principles of Distributed Computing, F. B. Schneider, Ed., New York, NY: ACM Press, 1987, pp. 1-12.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- IEEE CS Women of ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award, 2023
- Fiat Lux Faculty Award, 2022
- IETI Distinguished Fellow, 2020
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Member, 2019
- Berkeley Visionary Award, 2017
- Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, 2017
- ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2017
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, 2016
- Computers and Communications (C&C) Prize, 2015
- Jim and Donna Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science, 2014
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 2012
- ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2011
- IEEE Internet Award, 2006
- ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2006
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2003
- ACM SIGCOMM Award, 2002
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 2000