Department of
Computer ScienceMajor Awards Biographical sketch Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Networking Research Laboratory Publications
Research contributions with the most useful applications:
1.
Invention of secure
sockets and prototype implementation of the first secure sockets
layer
(SNP) in
1993 for Internet applications
-- This
work was published and presented in the 1994 USENIX Summer Technical
Conference. Subsequent secure sockets layers (SSL and TLS),
re-implemented several years later using key ideas first presented in SNP,
enabled secure e-commerce on WWW and are now widely used to secure email and
other Internet applications. For this contribution, Professor Lam and three students in
his research project won the
2004 ACM Software System Award. He was
elected to National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
2. Invention of atomic predicates and algorithms for scalable network verification (Software Downloads: networks without packet transformers, networks with packet transformers) -- This work has been re-implemented by Google for verifying its virtual private cloud.
2012 IEEE ICNP Keynote on Greedy Routing with Guaranteed Delivery and Low Stretch
Interview in the textbook Computer Networking by Kurose and Ross (circa 2008) pdf
Courses taught: CS 356 (Fall 2017) CS 396M (Spring 2017)Some former doctoral students (in order of graduation from UT-Austin)
A. Udaya Shankar (1982), Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park
C. Edward Chow (1985), Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Kenneth L. Calvert (1991), IEEE Fellow; Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky; effective May 2016, on leave at the National Science Foundation as Division Director, CISE Division of Computer and Network SystemsThomas Y. C. Woo (1994), IEEE Fellow, Bell Labs Fellow; Head, Scalable Data Processing, Nokia Bell Labs
Geoffrey G. Xie (1996), Professor of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
David K. Y. Yau (1997), Professor of Information Systems, Singapore University of Technology and Design (previous position: Associate Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University)
Y. Richard Yang (2001), Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
Min Sik Kim (2005), Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Washington State University
Chen Qian (2013), Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Supervisor of Simon Lam's doctoral dissertation (1974)
Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor, UCLA