Research

Short Biography

Yashar Ganjali is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. He is a member of Computer Systems and Networks Group. He received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and his MSc in Computer Science from University of Waterloo. He completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His PhD dissertation studied the buffer sizing problem in Internet core routers, and showed the possibility of reducing buffer sizes from millions of packets to just a few packets in Internet core routers.

Dr. Ganjali's research interests include packet switching architectures/algorithms, software defined networks, data center networking, congestion control, network measurements, and online social networks. He has received several awards for his research including best paper award in Internet Measurement Conference 2008, best paper runner up in IEEE INFOCOM 2003, best demo runner up in SIGCOMM 2008, first and second prizes in NetFPGA Design Competition 2010, Cisco Research Award, and a Distinguished Faculty Award from Facebook.

Service

  • Associate editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, March 2014-April 2018
  • Executive committee member, ACM SIGCOMM: Conference Coordinator, November 2013-August 2017
  • TCP member, 26th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Cambridge, UK, 2018.
  • TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), Los Angeles, CA, 2017
  • TPC member, 25th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2017.
  • TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, 2017
  • TPC member, ACM Special Interest Group in COMMunications (SIGCOMM), Brazil, 2016.
  • TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, 2016.
  • TPC member, IEEE Hot Interconnects (HotI), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2015.
  • Guest Editor: Computer Networks Journal, Special Issue on Software-Defined Networking, 2015.
  • TPC member, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2015.
  • TPC member, 11th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC), Bangkok, Thailand, 2015.
  • TPC member, Open Networking User Group Research Conference, Mountain View, CA, 2015.
  • TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), Santa Clara, CA, 2015.
  • TPC member, World Wide Web conference (WWW), Florence, Italy, 2015.
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair: 22nd Annual Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI), Mountain View, CA, 2014.
  • TPC member, 22nd Annual Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI), Mountain View, CA, USA, 2014.
  • TPC member, International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2014.
  • TPC member, 10th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Ghen, Belgium, 2014.
  • TPC member, 21st Annual Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI), San Jose, CA, USA, 2013.
  • TPC member, 8th International Conference on Future Internet (CFI), Seoul, Korea, 2013.
  • TPC member, International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Nassau, Bahamas, 2013.
  • TPC member, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
  • TPC member, 9th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Budapest, Hungary, 2013.
  • TPC member, 7th International Conference on Future Internet (CFI), Seoul, Korea, 2012.
  • TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software-Defined Networking (HotSDN), Hong Kong, 2013.
  • TPC member, IEEE Hot Interconnects (HotI), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2012.
  • TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software-Defined Networking (HotSDN), Helsinki, Finland, 2012.
  • TPC member, International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Munich, Germany, 2012.
  • Local Arrangements Chair: ACM Special Interest Group in COMMunications (SIGCOMM) Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2011.
  • TPC member, ACM Special Interest Group in COMMunications (SIGCOMM), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2011.
  • TPC member, IEEE Hot Interconnects (HotI), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2011.
  • TPC member, Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2011.
  • TPC member, Sixth International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI), Seoul, Korea, 2011.
  • TPC member, 8th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Krakow, Poland, 2011.
  • TPC member, IEEE Hot Interconnects (HotI), Mountain View, CA, USA, 2010.
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair: NetFPGA Developers Workshop, Stanford, CA, USA, 2010.
  • TPC member, Fifth International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI), Seoul, Korea, 2010.
  • TPC member, Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2010.
  • TPC member, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Chicago, IL, USA, 2009.
  • TPC member, IEEE Hot Interconnects (HotI), New York, NY, USA, 2009.
  • TPC member, Fourth International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI), Seoul, Korea, 2009.
  • TPC member, Fourth International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middleware (COMSWARE), Dublin, Ireland, 2009.