Software Engineer Google

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Curriculum Vitae: OpenDocument Text or PDF

The Basics

As of October 2010, I am a Software Engineer at Google. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale University in September 2010 under advisor Y. Richard Yang.

Publications

Academic

• A Dual-System Approach to Realistic Evaluation of Large-scale Networked Systems
  R. Alimi, Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, December 2010. (Thesis: PDF; Defense Slides: PDF, ODP)
  
  
• R3: Resilient Routing Reconfiguration
  Y. Wang, H. Wang, A. Mahimkar, R. Alimi, Y. Zhang, L. Qiu, and Y. R. Yang, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2010, Aug. 2010. (Paper: PDF)
  
  
• A General Algorithm for Interference Alignment and Cancellation in Wireless Networks
  L. E. Li, R. Alimi, D. Shen, H. Viswanathan, and Y. R. Yang, In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, Mar. 2010. (Paper: via IEEE Xplore)
  
  
• muNet: Harnessing Multiuser Capacity in Wireless Mesh Networks
  L. E. Li, R. Alimi, R. Ramjee, H. Viswanathan, and Y. R. Yang, In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-conference, Apr. 2009. (Paper: via IEEE Xplore)
  
  
• Shadow Configuration as a Network Management Primitive
  by R. Alimi, Y. Wang, and Y. R. Yang, In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Aug. 2008. (Paper: PDF; SIGCOMM Presentation: PDF, ODP, PPT; Extended Presentation for 2008-2009 OGST: PDF, ODP)
  
  
• iPack: in-Network Packet Mixing for High Throughput Wireless Mesh Networks
  R. Alimi, L. E. Li, R. Ramjee, H. Viswanathan, and Y. R. Yang, In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Apr. 2008. (Paper: via IEEE Xplore; INFOCOM Presentation: PDF, ODP; 2007-2008 OGST Presentation: PDF, ODP)
  
  
• Superposition Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks
  L. E. Li, R. Alimi, R. Ramjee, J. Shi, Y. Sun, H. Viswanathan, and Y. R. Yang, In Proceedings of ACM MobiCom (Extended abstract), Sept. 2007. (Paper: via ACM Portal; Poster: PDF)
  
  
• Computational Efficiency and Practical Implications for a Client Grid
  N. Zhou and R. Alimi, In Proceedings of High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Conference, Sept. 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4208, pp. 773-782. (Paper: via SpringerLink)
  
  

IETF

• ALTO Protocol (draft-ietf-alto-protocol-05)
  by R. Alimi, R. Penno, and Y. R. Yang (editors), Internet Draft, Jul. 12, 2010. (I-D: via IETF Tools)
  
  
• ALTO Information Redistribution (draft-gu-alto-redistribution-03)
  by Y. Gu, R. Alimi, and R. Even, Internet Draft, July 12, 2010. (I-D: via IETF Tools)
  
  
• DECADE Requirements (draft-gu-decade-reqs-05)
  Y. Gu, D. Bryan, Y. R. Yang, and R. Alimi, Internet Draft, July 12, 2010. (I-D: via IETF Tools)
  
  
• A Survey of In-network Storage Systems (draft-ietf-decade-survey-00)
  R. Alimi, A. Rahman, and Y. R. Yang (editors), Internet Draft, Sept. 1, 2010. (I-D: via IETF Tools)
  
  
• DECoupled Application Data Enroute (DECADE) Problem Statement (draft-ietf-decade-problem-statement-00)
  H. Song, N. Zong, Y. R. Yang, and R. Alimi, Internet Draft, Aug. 24, 2010. (I-D: via IETF Tools)
  
  
• P4P Protocol Specification (draft-wang-alto-p4p-specification-00)
  by Y. Wang, R. Alimi, D. Pasko, L. Popkin, and Y. R. Yang (with P4PWG), Internet Draft, Mar. 4, 2009. (I-D: via IETF Tools)
  
  
• P4P: Provider Portal for P2P Applications (draft-p4p-framework-00)
  R. Alimi, D. Pasko, L. Popkin, Y. Wang, Y. R. Yang, Internet Draft, Nov. 17, 2008. (I-D: via IETF Tools)