Tom Koch (EE Ph.D. ’24), advised by Professor Ethan Benjamin Katz-Bassett, has been named the runner-up for the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award. His dissertation, Optimizing Interdomain Routing for Today’s and Tomorrow’s Services, explores how service providers can adapt decades-old Internet protocols to reliably route latency-sensitive user traffic across the public Internet.
Koch’s work addresses urgent challenges as businesses, governments, and individuals increasingly depend on online services, and as new technologies such as virtual reality require stricter performance standards. By applying new measurement and modeling techniques, his research shows how existing infrastructure can be optimized to deliver reliable, high-performance connectivity.
Koch is now a full-time software engineer at Google Cloud, working on the Fabric Border Router team. He previously earned his B.S. and M.S. from The Cooper Union under Fred Fontaine.
Read his full dissertation here.
