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

Bio

I work with Prof. Brighten Godfrey on a) making networks more resilient, and b) large-scale resource optimization problems. Before that, I spent a few years with the Networks Group at Microsoft Research. Here is my academic ancestry.

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News

May 2025: Received the C.L. and Jane W.-S. Liu award for exceptional research promise during graduate studies.
Feb 2025: Will be spending the summer with the Systems Research Group at Google.
Nov 2024: Passed the PhD Qualifying Exam at UIUC.
Sep 2024: Archie accepted at ACM HotNets 2024.
Aug 2024: Filed patent for “Detecting and Recovering from Network Failures”.
May 2024: Spending the summer at Clockwork.io.
Nov 2023: User-centric network measurements accepted to ACM HotNets 2023.
Sep 2023: Switchboard accepted to ACM SIGCOMM 2023.
Sep 2023: Joined the UIUC Computer Science PhD program.


Credits

My parents worked hard and 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.