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Giang Nguyen *

PhD candidate
Computer Science Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email:username:nguyen59
domain:illinois.edu
Office:342 Coordinated Science Lab


I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Nikita Borisov. I received my undergraduate degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2005 before working at Riverbed Technology until 2009. Before Berkeley, I was at De Anza College from 2001 to 2003.

Research:

I have broad interests in computer networks and security/privacy.

Papers:

Cirripede: Circumvention Infrastructure using Router Redirection with Plausible Deniability
Amir Houmansadr, Giang T. K. Nguyen, Matthew Caesar, Nikita Borisov. CCS 2011.
[paper] [some code]
Slick Packets
Giang T. K. Nguyen, Rachit Agarwal, Junda Liu, Matthew Caesar, P. Brighten Godfrey, Scott Shenker. SIGMETRICS 2011.
[paper] [talk (ppt)] [more complete report at arXiv:1201.1661] [some code]
Practical Synchronization Techniques for Multi-Channel MAC
Hoi-Sheung Wilson So, Giang Nguyen, Jean Walrand. MobiCom 2006.
[paper]
sdlib: A Sensor Network Data and Communications Library for Rapid and Robust Application Development
David Chu, Kaisen Lin, Alexandre Linares, Giang Nguyen, Joe Hellerstein. IPSN 2006.
SPOTS Best Paper
[paper]

Patents:

Giang Nguyen, Shashidhar Merugu, Case Larsen. Patent pending