Technology and Innovation

Vesna Manojlovic

Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of IPv6 deployment among LIRs. In 2011, she joined the Science Division as Manager of the Measurements Community Building team; in 2015 she moved to Communications Department as Senior Community Builder, with a focus on organising hackathons. Vesna gives presentations at many technical conferences and workshops, and enjoys visiting hackerspaces. Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.

Gergana Petrova

Gergana Petrova is the Community Development Manager at RIPE NCC. She helps lead the RIPE NCC's engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, government, academia, civil society and other Internet stakeholders. Gergana has been working for the RIPE NCC since 2013. Originally from Bulgaria, Gergana studied in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands. Gergana has a Masters in Business Research.

Romain Fontugne

Based in Tokyo

I am senior researcher at IIJ Research Lab. The focus of my work is on Internet measurements, traffic analysis and network security.

Florian Streibelt

Based in Saarbrücken, Germany

Florian Streibelt is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, supervised by Anja Feldmann. In 2013 he graduated with a Diploma Degree in computer science from Technische Universität Berlin. During his undergrad time at TU Berlin he worked as a systems administrator and as of today also as a freelancer. In 2013 he joined Anja Feldmann’s group back in Berlin based on the work he did on his diploma thesis “Exploring EDNS-client-subnet adopters in your free time” where he mapped the location of CDN caches to client networks and uncovered the caches located in ISP networks. His research interests include DNS, Internet measurement, protocol design, interdomain routing, security and data analytics. In his free time he enjoys amateur radio and electronics as in microcontroller programming.

Florian Streibelt

Based in Saarbrücken, Germany

Florian Streibelt is a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, supervised by Anja Feldmann. In 2013 he graduated with a Diploma Degree in computer science from Technische Universität Berlin. During his undergrad time at TU Berlin he worked as a systems administrator and as of today also as a freelancer. In 2013 he joined Anja Feldmann’s group back in Berlin based on the work he did on his diploma thesis “Exploring EDNS-client-subnet adopters in your free time” where he mapped the location of CDN caches to client networks and uncovered the caches located in ISP networks. His research interests include DNS, Internet measurement, protocol design, interdomain routing, security and data analytics. In his free time he enjoys amateur radio and electronics as in microcontroller programming.

Maxime Mouchet

Based in IMT Atlantique, Brest, France

I'm a PhD student at IMT Atlantique. My work concerns the optimization of active monitoring in computer networks through statistical modelling and prediction of the QoS.

Geoff Huston

Geoff Huston AM is the Chief Scientist at APNIC, where he undertakes research on topics associated with Internet infrastructure, IP technologies, and address distribution policies. From 1995 to 2005, Geoff was the Chief Internet Scientist at Telstra, where he provided a leading role in the construction and further development of Telstra's Internet service offerings, both in Australia and as part of Telstra's global operations. Prior to Telstra, Mr Huston worked at the Australian National University, where he led the initial construction of the Internet in Australia in the late 1980s as the Technical Manager of the Australian Academic and Research Network. He has authored a number of books dealing with IP technology, as well as numerous papers and columns. He was a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1999 until 2005 and served as its Executive Director from 2001 to 2005. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force, where he currently chairs two Working Groups. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society from 1992 until 2001 and served a term as Chair of the Board in 1999. He has served on the Board of the Public Internet Registry and also on the Executive Council of APNIC. He chaired the Internet Engineering and Planning Group from 1992 until 2005.

Philipp Richter

Based in Cambridge, MA, USA

I am a post doc researcher in the Advanced Network Architecture group at MIT and a research collaborator with Akamai Technologies. My current research centers around developing data-driven approaches to measure Internet reliability, resilience, and security. Prior to joining MIT, I earned my PhD (proof picture) from TU Berlin, advised by Anja Feldmann. In the summer of 2015, I was a research intern in the Custom Analytics Group at Akamai in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the summers of 2013 and 2014, I was a visiting researcher at ICSI in Berkeley, California. I am broadly interested in methods to mine and understand data at scale with an emphasis on measurements assessing structure, performance, and security of the Internet. In my PhD work I explored the phenomenon of IPv4 address space exhaustion and its consequences for the Internet and its stakeholders. My research was awarded with a Best Paper Award at ACM IMC 2016, an IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2017, and selected “Best of CCR” in 2015.