Rahul Bothra
Ph.D. student
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Bio

I am working with Prof. Brighten Godfrey on two broad areas - a) making WAN Traffic Engineering more scalable, and b) using formal reasoning to design networks. Previously, I worked at Microsoft Research on improving resource utilization for Microsoft Teams, which reduced their operational costs by ~$10M per year.
Here is my academic ancestry.


Random

I like to play chess and go for runs. I dedicate some time to learn random things. I am trying to support Jaipur Foot, a charity that helps people with limb-related disabilities - please consider contributing.


News

Sep 2024: Our work on “Lightweight Automated Reasoning for Network Architectures” will appear in ACM HotNets 2024.
Aug 2024: Our work on “Detecting and Recovering from Network Failures” has been filed for a patent.
Mar 2024: I will be spending the summer at Clockwork.io.
Feb 2024: Presenting FaultFerence to various groups at Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
Nov 2023: Presenting Rethinking network measurements during ACM HotNets 2023 at MIT.
Sep 2023: Presenting Switchboard during ACM SIGCOMM 2023 at Columbia University.
Mar 2023: I will be joining the UIUC Computer Science PhD program.


Credits

My parents have made many sacrifices to support me. My advisors gave me the right environment and guidance to grow. For who I am and what I have to offer, I owe it all to them.