Ethan Katz-Bassett

Ethan Katz-Bassett

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Ethan Katz-Bassett develops techniques and systems to understand and improve the reliability and performance of Internet services.

His research interests include Internet-scale distributed systems, Internet measurement, routing, and content delivery. Because he designs his techniques to be deployable, some of his techniques are in widespread use at companies such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft.

He joined the faculty of Columbia Engineering in 2017. Previously he worked at Google and in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, where he was the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair. Katz-Bassett earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 2012 and his B.A. from Williams College in 2001.

Research Areas

  • Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Edge Computing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Networking

Additional Information

  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-
    • Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, University of Southern California, 2016-2017
    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2012-2017
    • Software Engineer, Mobile performance, Google Inc., 2011-2012
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • ACM SIGCOMM
  • Honors & Awards
    • Best of ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2023: Who Squats IPv4 Addresses?
    • Best Short Paper, ACM IMC, 2022: The Best of Both Worlds: High Availability CDN Routing Without Compromising Control
    • Best Paper, ACM SIGCOMM, 2021: Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants' Off-Nets
    • Best Paper Runner-Up, IFIP Networking, 2020: Tracking Down Sources of Spoofed IP Packets
    • SIGCOMM Rising Star Award 2019
    • IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2019: Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World
    • Best of SIGCOMM CCR, 2018: Towards a Rigorous Methodology for Measuring Adoption of RPKI Route Validation and Filtering
    • Facebook Faculty Research Award, 2017 and 2018
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015: Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2016: Longitudinal Study of Adoption of RPKI-Based Route Filtering
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015: Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2014: Measuring and Improving Web Performance
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2013: Mapping Today's Internet
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2014: Routing for the Emerging Topologies of Modern Internet Services
    • IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2014: Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression
    • Best Paper, ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2013: Don't Trust Traceroute (Completely)
    • William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, 2012
    • Finalist (4 total), Western Association of Graduate Schools Innovation in Technology Award, 2012
    • Best Paper, NSDI, 2010: Reverse Traceroute
    • Madrona Prize runner-up, Madrona Venture Group, 2009: Reverse Traceroute
    • Best Paper, NSDI, 2008: Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
  • Education
    • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
    • B.A., Computer Science & Mathematics, Williams College