I am a final-year Ph.D. researcher in Internet transport protocols with the Internet Architecture group at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken, Germany, advised by Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D. I am also affiliated with the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science. My research work focuses on optimizing network transport protocols for efficient data transmission, reduced latency, and enhanced reliability.

I will be on the job market starting 01 May 2025. I am seeking roles in Networking Research, Network Engineering, and/or Internet Measurements. Please feel free to reach out for more information or to discuss potential opportunities.

News

• 08 November 2024: I presented our BBR work at the IETF-ICCRG session, which triggered a nice discussion afterwards: Check out my presentation here at t=16:40.
• 06 June 2024: Our paper “BBRv3 in the public Internet: a boon or a bane?” has been accepted to ANRW ‘24, check out my colleague Danesh’s presentation here at t=38 minutes.
• 15 April 2024: Our paper from my Summer Internship at Huawei titled “Exploring The Benefits of In-Band Service Routing” has been accepted to IFIP Networking 2024, check it out!!
• 11 March 2024: Our paper “Promises and Potential of BBRv3” won Best Paper Award at PAM ‘24. Congratulations to my co-authors!!
• 13 December 2023: Our paper “Promises and Potential of BBRv3” has been accepted to PAM ‘24, for more details, check out our project page.
• 01 August 2023: I am back in Saarbrücken at MPII after a fruitful summer Internship at Huawei MRC.
• 01 February 2023: I have officially started my Summer Internship at the Huawei Munich Research Center in Munich, Germany. I will be working on the ROSA project in the Applied Network Technology Laboratory.

Academic Service

• Pre-Review Task Force for USENIX NSDI’25 (Spring and Fall deadlines)
• Co-Reviewer for ACSAC’24
• TPC Meeting - Student Scribe for ACM CoNEXT’20
• Sub-Reviewr for ACM SIGCOMM’20

Teaching

• TA for Hot Topics in Data Networks Seminar, Winter Semester 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
• TA for Data Networks, Summer Semester 2020, 2021, 2024
• Course organizer for Hot Topics in Data Networks Seminar, Winter Semester 2023
• Course organizer for Data Networks, Summer Semester 2022
• TA for Data Networks, Winter Semester 2018/2019

Education

• May 2019 - Present: Ph.D Student at Max Planck Institute for Informatics
• 2018: MSc. in Informatics, 2018 - Tokyo University of Information Sciences
• 2017: MSc. in Computer Science, 2017 - Namibia University of Science and Technology
• 2011: BSc. in Computer Science and Statistics, 2011 - University of Namibia

Professional Experience

• Feb. 2023 ‐ Aug. 2023: Internship (Applied Network Technology Laboratory) ‐ Huawei Munich Research Center, Munich, Germany
• Mar. 2018 ‐ Jul. 2018: Market Research Internship (Global Business Development) ‐ SoftBank Group, Tokyo, Japan
• Mar. 2011 ‐ Aug. 2015: Network Technician (IP/TDM/METRO‐Ethernet Backhauling) ‐ Telecom Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
• Feb. 2010 ‐ Jan. 2011: Network Systems Internship (Design, Engineering, Planning, and Implementation) ‐ Telecom Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Misc.

In my spare time, I enjoy jogging, reading, hiking…